Position: Data Centre Lab Engineer (Contract)
Start Date: Immediate
Duration: 6-Month Contract (extendable)
Location: West Yorkshire, onsite 4 days a week
Rate: £350-380 per day (Inside IR35)
Reference: 20659
This is a hands-on, hardware-focused role. Racking, cabling, hardware configuration and certification testing sit with this team, while software configuration itself is handled by other teams. The successful candidate needs a strong theoretical understanding of the software side, but the day to day work is physical – connecting hardware to storage infrastructure, testing new server and component hardware, and troubleshooting when things go wrong.
The role combines scheduled work – certification testing and project work planned weeks or months ahead – with reactive work, such as recreating an environment to help investigate a live incident elsewhere in the company.
Key Responsibilities
- Racking, cabling and physically installing hardware, connecting it correctly to storage infrastructure
- Certification testing of new server and component hardware (e.g. Dell PowerEdge) – confirming it racks and functions correctly
- Troubleshooting hardware and server issues
- Recreating environments to support investigation of live incidents
- Liaising with software teams (on diagrams and configuration handover), network teams (VLANs etc.) and floor management, depending on the project
- Working across both BAU tickets and planned certification/project work
- Supporting hardware provisioning and decommissioning
Skills and Experience Required
- Genuine hands-on data centre hardware experience – racking, cabling, physical server builds and troubleshooting
- Confirmed hardware console experience – iDRAC, iLO or XClarity
- Working theoretical knowledge of VMware and virtualisation (software configuration itself is handled by other teams)
- SAN/storage familiarity from a hardware connectivity perspective
- Comfortable liaising with other technical teams and following detailed diagrams/specifications
- Solid troubleshooting ability – must be solution focused and able to work through hardware problems independently
- Experience in a regulated environment such as financial services is beneficial
Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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