mid operations Data Center Engineer ic · Posted Apr 28, 2026

About this role

Rackspace is hiring a mid-level Data Center Engineer in the operations function based in Kansas City, MO. The posting calls out experience with Incident Response.

Role
Data Center Engineer
Function
operations
Level
mid
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Kansas City, MO
Posted
Apr 28, 2026

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Job description

from Rackspace careers

Job Summary: Responsible for maintaining the operation and maintenance of all electrical, mechanical, life safety and monitoring equipment within the Data Center/Facility.  This equipment supports mission-critical servers and is expected to maintain 100% customer up-time. Responsibilities include maintaining facility appearance and integrity.

Work Location: You’ll work onsite at our state of art Data Center located in Kansas City, MO.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Oversee potentially medium impacting projects and coordinate the use of resources, project execution, & communication.
  • Identify infrastructure risks and performance gaps.
  • Troubleshoot electrical and mechanical data center infrastructure.
  • Assist in facilitating Root Cause Analysis (RCAs) to ensure the recurrence of issues or incidents are eliminated.
  • Execute and assist in developing and documenting step-by-step methods of procedure (MOPs) for critical maintenances.
  • Execute and assist in the development of step-by-step Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs) to drive the consistency of operation and quickly respond to incidents to return equipment to operation.
  • Supervise and manage scheduled maintenance of electrical, mechanical, life safety and monitoring equipment.
  • Oversee the monitoring equipment and other critical systems.
  • Assist in effectively leading Incident Management efforts in the event of system degradation/failures communicating the status to all levels and resolving the issue in a timely fashion.
  • This is an excerpt. Read the full job description on Rackspace careers →
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