# Data Center Specialist

**Company**: IT Infrastructure
**Location**: Secaucus, NJ
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Data Center Specialist to join our Information Technology team at Millennium, a global alternative investment firm.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day physical operation of two New Jersey data centers and New York office technology rooms.

Key responsibilities include:

- Managing the physical infrastructure, including power, cooling, space, cabling, and security

- Performing racking and stacking, structured copper and fiber cabling, labeling, patching, and cable management

- Managing the hardware lifecycle across servers, storage, and network equipment

- Coordinating and executing hardware replacements and RMAs with vendors

- Monitoring infrastructure and environmental alerts, responding to incidents, and performing first-line troubleshooting

- Supporting network deployments and physical connectivity tasks

- Contributing to tooling, automation, and integration efforts across DCIM, monitoring, logging, CMDB, and capacity platforms

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience in a data center or large-scale infrastructure environment

- Strong hands-on experience with racking and stacking, structured copper and fiber cabling, patch management, and hardware installation and decommissioning

- Experience supporting office technology rooms or communications rooms

- Solid understanding of data center power and cooling concepts

- CCNA-level networking knowledge

- Ability to perform basic configuration changes and CLI-based troubleshooting on enterprise switches and routers

- Experience working with ITSM, CMDB, and DCIM tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, Nlyte, NetBox

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

## Skills

### Required
- data center operation
- power and cooling management
- cabling and patch management
- hardware lifecycle management
- networking fundamentals
- ITSM and CMDB tools
- scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, or Bash

### Nice to have
- CCNA certification
- experience in financial services or other mission-critical environments
- knowledge of remote management technologies such as IPMI, iDRAC, iLO, console servers, and out-of-band management

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