Digital Workplace Engineering Jobs in Portland, OR

Company Overview
Milestone Technologies is a global IT managed services firm that partners with organizations to scale their technology, infrastructure and services to drive specific business outcomes such as digital transformation, innovation, and operational agility. Milestone is focused on building an employee-first, performance-based culture and for over 25 years, we have a demonstrated history of supporting category-defining enterprise clients that are growing ahead of the market. The company specializes in providing solutions across Application Services and Consulting, Digital Product Engineering, Digital Workplace Services, Private Cloud Services, AI/Automation, and ServiceNow. Milestone culture is built to provide a collaborative, inclusive environment that supports employees and empowers them to reach their full potential.
Our seasoned professionals deliver services based on Milestone's best practices and service delivery framework. By leveraging our vast knowledge base to execute initiatives, we deliver both short-term and long-term value to our clients and apply continuous service improvement to deliver transformational benefits to IT. With Intelligent Automation, Milestone helps businesses further accelerate their IT transformation. The result is a sharper focus on business objectives and a dramatic improvement in employee productivity. Through our key technology partnerships and our people-first approach, Milestone continues to deliver industry-leading innovation to our clients. With more than 3,000 employees serving over 200 companies worldwide, we are following our mission of revolutionizing the way IT is deployed.
Job Overview
Title: Full Time Data Center Technical Lead - #13572
Internal candidates curently being interviewed
Location: Hillsboro, OR.. (MUST BE LOCAL NOW - no one relocating will be considered)
Hours: Mon-Fri 7:30am - 4pm (Subject to change)
Must Haves:
• 3+ years Data Center experience preferably with extensive knowledge of Linux and managing people
• High School Diploma
• Knowledge of and hands-on experience with computer hardware
• Extensive leadership competencies
• A high degree of professionalism, strong relationship skills
• High level of written and oral fluency in English
• Ability to learn new software quickly
• Able to safely lift and move a minimum of fifty (50) pounds
Expectations and Skills:
As a Data Center Lead, you will be spending more than 50% of the time working alongside Data Center Technicians in supporting installs, troubleshooting, and maintaining servers. The remaining time will be spent on daily onsite/area management of staff and other non-technical duties. You will play a crucial role in identifying and escalating opportunities within the client's infrastructure for efficiency and effectiveness improvements. Expansion of extensive knowledge and experience working with computers and related knowledge is expected along with added supervisory responsibilities. Prior leadership experience is desired.
• Oversees daily management of staff, including technicians
• Approve timecards
• Coach and mentor staff to achieve high-quality results and high performance
• Conduct regular one-on-one employee status meetings to provide performance feedback as well as annual performance reviews.
• Adhere to and apply the disciplinary process related to staff performance issues
• Provides explanations for operational performance results (explain why metrics/KPIs missed, met, or exceeded targets)
• Provides input and suggestions for improving operational performance and efficiency in the local environment
• Screen and schedule burst labor resources for short-term projects
• Screen for technical capabilities and a fit for the team then recommend hire of long-term resources (work with recruiting team to interview candidates and suggest hire for backfills and new positions)
• Assist in the onboarding and training of all new hires
• Collaborate and share best practices with Data Center Leads in other locations (drive increased teamwork across regions)
• Ensure local execution of key deliverables and metrics
• Other duties as assigned by management
• Work within Meta's ticketing system and SLAs in support of the health of Meta's server fleet
• First point of contact for IC4 technicians
• Perform root cause analysis of complex technical issues and drive resolution
• Hardware installation, rack, and stack, cabling, rack integration, provisioning, and decommission
• Responsible for assisting with projects (new capacity, as well as retrofits) and repairs throughout the data center
• Understand and debug hardware, and Linux and Windows OS-related issues using command-line tools and techniques
• Execution of turn-up/turn-down processes with support from ISOS
• Analyze data to diagnose systemic issues
• Work with internal hardware teams and vendors to help resolve complex technical issues, maintain high hardware quality levels, and influence future design to ensure ease of serviceability
• Identify and help create documentation for the global data center knowledge base
• Assist with process improvements and best practices in data center operations
• Participate in on-call rotation (once a month on call for a week after hours, first point of contact)
• Maintain an efficient, orderly hardware test lab operation within the production/non-production data center
• Device/system configuration
• Help develop global standards for processes, workflow, and automation roadmaps for tools that facilitate deployment, maintenance, and decommissioning of server hardware at scale. Lead process improvements and best practices in data center operations
• Provide cross-functional communication with other technical operations group
• Other tasks as required to support IT service on a local basis
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Compensation
Estimated Pay Range:
Exact compensation and offers of employment are dependent on circumstances of each case and will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, licenses or certifications, and location.
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
At Milestone we strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and work with, where we all feel empowered to bring our full, authentic selves to work. We know creating a diverse and inclusive culture that champions equity and belonging is not only the right thing to do for ouremployees butis also critical to our continued success.
Milestone Technologies provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, or local ordinance. Milestone also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees.
We welcome the unique background, culture, experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression and perspectives you can bring to our global community. Our recruitment team is looking forward to meeting you.