Engineer, Data Center (VA)

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to help members of all backgrounds and experiences achieve more in their careers. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Every day our members use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, build skills and gain insights. We believe amazing things happen when we work together in an environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging, and that what matters most in a candidate is having the skills needed to succeed.

At LinkedIn, we're looking for a Data Center Engineer with experience working in a production environment with 10000+ servers. LinkedIn's Data Center Engineering is a global team working together to ensure the data center stays online and healthy. We are focused on working together towards continual improvement of our craft and striving to push the boundaries of excellence every day.

As an onsite Data Center Engineer, you will be responsible for hardware deployments and acting as a point of escalation for our contracted employees responsible for addressing server break fix tickets. You will also assist Senior Data Center Engineers with the deployment of network, storage, and server nodes within your region. You will have strong server and network hardware installation experience, network cabling experience, server break fix experience, experience troubleshooting Linux Kickstart issues, and Linux/Unix troubleshooting skills.

This role will be based in Manassas, VA and requires employees to be physically present in the specified office on a full-time basis. This helps to ensure you are best equipped to be successful and have the experience you need to fulfill the responsibilities of the role. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Responsibilities: • Racking, cabling, and initial configuration of management network devices and console switches • Review and escalate break-fix tickets • Quality control for network and server cabinet deployments • Execution of build readiness tool and remediation of Linux Kickstart issues • Troubleshooting dark fiber and network issues • Decommissioning server nodes • Review and act on electrical infrastructure faults • Provide monthly site health metrics report • Act as escalation point for contracted employees • Assist with hardware installations beyond organic growth initiatives • Ensure compliance with data center house rules

Basic Qualifications: • 1+ years of experience in a Data Center Engineering Role • 1+ years of Linux troubleshooting experience • 1+ years of server hardware troubleshooting experience • 1+ years of physical layer network troubleshooting experience

Preferred Qualifications: • Experience with network troubleshooting • Experience with project management • Experience in large organization and interdependent team dynamics • Experience scripting in BASH and/or Python

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $85,000 to $140,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location.