HOW TO BECOME A DATA CENTRE ENGINEER?

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The Data Centre industry is growing at a fast pace and over the last few years as more and more data gets collected in the cloud, tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. are growing their infrastructures around the globe.

Data Centre Engineer performs various kinds of important functions to keep the centre operating sleekly. They are responsible for setting up, managing, designing network systems by monitoring system operations as well as directing the IT solutions in order to ensure the data centre equipment are working efficiently.

In this article, we list down a few pointers for those who are interested and want to go ahead with a career as a Data Centre Engineer.

Responsibilities:

Some of the important responsibilities of the Data Centre Engineer are mentioned below

• To inspect power/cooling systems and identify as well as fix issues that may cause a problem in network performance.
• Monitoring and evaluating the servers as well as calibrate them and perform backups
• To ensure energy efficient systems by performing renovations.
• Carrying out accounts and systems administration by handling network file share rights as well as maintaining the operating systems.
• Troubleshoot network systems to diagnose and fix the performance issues
• Collaborating with the IT persons or data centre managers in order to develop the action plans for improved operations
• Lead initiatives for the optimisation as well as the restructuring of the network architecture.
• Have excellent knowledge about the infrastructures of the network, hardware deployments, etc.

The Basic

Nowadays there is an abundance of learning opportunities which are available both offline and online. There are some companies who are providing certifications in this profile such as Microsoft, Cisco. Learning the programming languages and understand the tool will surely add a helping hand in this career. One must also have to have the knowledge in virtualisation and software-defined systems along with the computational fluid dynamics.