USA remote
Lead Data Center Technician (Remote)
About this role
Who You Are You are a hands-on data center technician who can lead a small field crew while staying close to the work. You know how to assign tasks, perform rack-and-stack and structured cabling activities, verify workmanship, and correct issues before they affect the customer or the next phase of deployment. You bring a disciplined approach to safety, quality, documentation, and communication. You are comfortable working from rack elevations, cable schedules, port maps, drawings, runbooks, and field direction, and you take ownership of clear updates, open items, blockers, and next steps at the end of each shift.
About The Role As a Lead Data Center Technician / Working Foreman, you will support customer deployments and infrastructure projects in active data center and critical-environment settings. You will coordinate daily work for technicians and helpers while also completing installation, cabling, labeling, troubleshooting, remediation, and cabinet closeout tasks yourself. This is a travel-intensive field role requiring approximately 75%-90% nationwide travel, extended assignments, 10-12 hour shifts, and occasional nights, weekends, maintenance windows, or critical deployment schedules.
Success in this role depends on reliable execution, strong customer-site conduct, accurate records, and the judgment to pause, verify, and escalate when conditions do not match the plan. Must be based in the United States. This is a Remote role with 90 % to 100% Travel. Other responsibilities include: Perform hands-on rack-and-stack, equipment staging, cabinet preparation, server and switch installation, cable management, and cabinet closeout.
Lead daily field activities for technicians, helpers, and subcontractors; assign work, monitor progress, and keep the crew aligned with the plan. Route, dress, label, connect, and troubleshoot copper and fiber-optic cabling while following drawings, port maps, cable schedules, and work instructions. Inspect work for label accuracy, port correctness, bend radius, cable dressing, cleanliness, slack, photos, test results, and overall workmanship; correct issues promptly.