Job Summary
Responsible for monitoring mining dashboards, network dashboards, weather, physical security, conducting energy curtailments, and implementing initial communications and analysis for all incidents.
Schedule
- Sunday to Tuesday, 7 pm - 7 am CST
- Every other Saturday, 7 pm - 7 am CST
Job Responsibilities
- Maintain the operations center at the HQ office in Austin, TX.
- Coordinate with site managers and power companies to ensure synergy between data centers and their respective grids.
- Monitor Minder summaries, operational and non-operational miners, miner temperatures, local weather, and hash rates at all data center sites.
- Provide first-line investigation, diagnosis, prioritization, and documentation of all operational incidents using Jira.
- Communicate all Jira incidents involving curtailment to the sev0, sev1, or sev2 distribution lists.
- Conduct economic, load, and temperature curtailments according to each site's SLA requirements.
- Monitor all network devices through Zabbix and assist site network resources in resolving alerts.
- Monitor, report, and document all physical security issues using Jira, unless otherwise specified by the Ops Center Manager or the Director of Security.
- Complete mandatory security software training and obtain certification.
- Assign unresolved operational incidents to higher-tier support for service restoration coordination.
- Coordinate with site managers, DCTs, and network resources on each operational incident’s status and actions, tracking through to resolution.
- Notify oncoming shift personnel of pending actions or upcoming events relevant to the operations center and the sites it supports.
- List handover action items in an email, with management carbon copied for the oncoming shift to complete.
- Monitor weather and site safety action plans at each site.
- Communicate any priority safety or security issues to site personnel to mitigate potential risks.
- Submit weekly and monthly documentation of problem areas for management review.
Qualifications Required
- At least 3 years of relevant experience in data center support.
- Strong IT troubleshooting skills in network, platform, and storage.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with Confluence, Jira, Slack, and Zabbix.
- Basic knowledge of blockchain principles.
- Willingness to learn new technologies and applications.
Additional Qualifications(a plus)
- Understanding of ITIL service delivery concepts.
- Linux administration experience.
- Experience with coding languages such as Perl, Python, PHP, and JavaScript.
- Genetec software experience.
- Experience with wireless technologies, VPNs, Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), WAN Accelerators, and associated technologies.
- Certifications: Network+, ITIL Foundations, CCENT, Security+.