Data Center Engineer

Job#: 3037443 Job Description: Data Center Engineer Location: Irving, Texas (On-site) Role Overview This position is the most senior role on the Data Center Services team. The Data Center Engineer leads infrastructure efforts, supports architecture discussions, and helps drive strategy while ensuring uptime and stability across enterprise data center environments. This role requires both technical depth and the ability to operate across teams and with leadership, influencing technical direction and owning outcomes. Key Responsibilities Ensure continuous uptime across data center systems and facilities. Lead complex infrastructure initiatives and provide direction across operations, monitoring, and projects. Design and implement infrastructure solutions, contributing to architecture and system design. Troubleshoot operating system, application, hardware, and infrastructure issues. Manage infrastructure projects and serve as a liaison between Data Center Services and other IT groups. Mentor Data Center Technicians, providing technical guidance and best practices. Provide reporting, analytics, and operational insights to recommend improvements. Required Qualifications Experience: A minimum of 5 years of recent infrastructure or data center experience within enterprise environments is required. Technical Skills: A strong understanding of servers, networking, storage, and virtualization fundamentals is necessary. This includes experience with Windows, Unix, and Linux environments, as well as knowledge of DNS, DHCP, and TCP/IP. Familiarity with monitoring, observability tools, automation, and scripting is also required. Professional Skills: The role demands strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and leadership abilities. Candidates must be able to communicate effectively with leadership, vendors, and technical teams. Work Environment This is a fully onsite role based in a 24/7 data center operations environment. The position involves a mix of strategic work and operational support, requiring an ownership mindset to think independently, ask questions, and drive improvements. Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. #J-18808-Ljbffr