Senior Data Center Technician - Copper

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Data Center Technician – Copper based in the United States. This is a hands-on data center infrastructure role focused on copper cabling, rack-and-stack activities, physical-layer deployment, and technical remediation. You’ll support enterprise, colocation, hyperscale, AI/HPC, construction, and operational data center environments across a wide range of customer sites. The role combines installation, troubleshooting, smart-hands support, documentation, and quality control to keep critical infrastructure reliable and well organized. You’ll work from detailed cable schedules, rack elevations, port maps, drawings, and runbooks while maintaining high standards for workmanship, safety, and accuracy. The position offers significant field exposure, requiring frequent travel and the flexibility to support different environments, project standards, and deployment schedules. You’ll work alongside field teams, engineers, customers, subcontractors, and project stakeholders to resolve issues and deliver production-ready infrastructure. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced technician who takes ownership, works independently, and thrives in fast-paced technical environments. Accountabilities: - Install, test, troubleshoot, maintain, route, dress, label, and connect copper cabling while ensuring correct source, destination, port assignment, connector type, routing, slack, and bend radius. - Perform rack-and-stack activities across standard, high-density, and AI-compute cabinets, including installation of servers, switches, storage equipment, patch panels, cable managers, support hardware, and related infrastructure. - Install management and console cables, power cords, interconnects, optics, and other supporting components while following project-specific standards and technical documentation.

- Execute structured cabling remediation, cabinet cleanup, defect correction, rework, and punch-list activities while maintaining high standards for quality and organization. - Provide smart-hands support to remote engineering and support teams, including physical verification, connection changes, component replacement, and device information capture. - Replace damaged cables, labels, optics, transceivers, hardware, and field-replaceable components as directed. - Capture and maintain accurate installation records, including serial numbers, asset tags, MAC addresses, photographs, issue notes, project trackers, checklists, redlines, and timekeeping information. - Inspect completed work for visible defects and proactively report blockers, damaged equipment, missing materials, drawing conflicts, site issues, and safety concerns. - Maintain clean and organized cabinets, pathways, workstations, staging areas, and project zones while protecting customer equipment, floors, ports, optics, and infrastructure. - Communicate professionally with technical leads, customers, superintendents, subcontractors, engineers, and other project stakeholders while following site-specific standards and safety requirements. - Complete required security awareness training, comply with applicable policies and procedures, identify potential security risks, and escalate concerns through the appropriate channels. Requirements: - At least 2 years of experience in data center operations, telecommunications, low-voltage installation, structured cabling, network deployment, or a related field. - Demonstrated hands-on experience installing copper cabling, with experience working with fiber-optic cabling considered valuable. - Experience mounting and installing servers, switches, storage equipment, patch panels, cable managers, and other equipment within data cabinets.