Data Center Rack Operations Trainee

- High school or equivalent diploma
- STEM classes or vocational course curriculum education
- Are 18 years of age or older
- Experience with Microsoft Office products and applications
- Work 40 hours/week, and overtime as required
- Experience managing work and priorities through a ticketing system and coordination with Manager
The Decommissioning Technical team is responsible for processing and facilitating large scale legacy Data Center equipment through a liquidation process to ensure that targeted equipment is ready to be removed from the premises. Team members will also process large volumes of customer data to ensure that all customer data is sanitized and properly managed.
Team members will be working in a team environment not only with other members of the team but also from other teams and must be able to communicate and promote cross-team functionality.
Amazon Data Centers takes customer data with the utmost importance, and selected candidates must be able to perform repetitive tasks without variance and adhere to strict Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) that ensures customer data is protected and properly handled.
We are committed to provide coaching and periodic assessments to help develop your skills. If successful after the 6-month period you may have an opportunity to be interviewed to join the Amazon family full time.
Key job responsibilities
- Decommissioning and processing of legacy hardware out of the data center facilities.
- Moving/lifting packages usually no greater than 20 kgs, using manual handling equipment.
- Unpacking/repacking fragile electronics.
- Relocating and moving of large enterprise equipment
- Operate HDD and SSD destruction machinery.
- Creating/attaching labels and barcodes.
- Hard drive installation and removal, and destruction.
- Networking removal/installation and switch consoling.
- Physical layer and Application layer.
- Updating progress through a web ticketing system.
- Reporting of processes and regular status updates.
- Documenting procedures.
- Escalating to senior technicians and management as needed/required.
Familiarity with basic PC components/hardware:
- HDD/SSD/Flash/Removable storage media
- USB/FireWire/Esata
- Ram/CPU/Motherboard/Input-Output devices
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Sydney, NSW, AUS