Data Center Technician - Technical IT
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Insight Global seeks hands-on Data Center Technicians to support a large-scale network deployment across active work areas. Technicians install, cable, power, validate, and troubleshoot network infrastructure, following technical work instructions and approved installation plans. The role involves physical equipment handling, copper and fiber cabling, quality checks, equipment accountability, and coordination with a Lead when issues or blockers arise.
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Job Description
We are seeking hands-on Data Center Technicians to support a large-scale network deployment. Technicians will work as part field crews responsible for staging, installing, cabling, powering, validating, and troubleshooting network infrastructure across multiple active work areas.
Key Responsibilities:
- Receive, inspect, inventory, unbox, stage, and move network equipment.
- Assemble rail kits and perform rack-and-stack installation of network devices.
- Support four-post mounting and safe installation of network hardware.
- Install power connections and chassis grounding.
- Install, route, patch, label, dress, and organize copper and fiber cabling.
- Perform fiber/optical cleaning and inspection.
- Support containment and cable-management activities.
- Assist with device turn-up, link validation, troubleshooting, punch-list work, and corrective physical work.
- Perform in-process quality checks and follow approved rack elevations, cable matrices, labels, and work instructions.
- Escalate damaged equipment, cabling issues, installation discrepancies, and other blockers to the Lead.
- Maintain accurate equipment accountability and support daily progress reporting.
- Follow site safety, security, orientation, and work-area requirements.
Skills and Requirements
- Hands-on experience in a data center, network deployment, structured cabling, low-voltage, telecom, or similar technical environment.
- Comfortable performing repetitive physical installation work in an active data center/construction environment.
- Ability to follow technical work instructions, rack elevations, diagrams, and cable matrices.
- Strong attention to quality, safety, and equipment accountability.
- Ability to safely lift, move, mount, and handle equipment as part of a team.
- Experience with rack-and-stack and/or network equipment installation.
- Ability to work with copper and fiber-optic cabling.
- Familiarity with cable labeling, dressing, routing, and patching.
- Previous hyperscale data center experience.
- Experience with Arista networking hardware.
- Experience with optical cleaning and inspection.
- Experience with high-speed fiber/AOC cabling.
- Experience supporting network validation or troubleshooting.
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 1,434 open Data Center Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$75–118K/yr166 salary ranges
- US median$30–54/hr1,080 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 14 open Data Center Technician jobs in Washington and 1,434 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Amazon735 open
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- Experience
- Data Center Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (1,027 postings).
- Education
- 146 of the 1,434 open Data Center Technician jobs (10%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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