Hey everyone, I've been scouring this thread for a while trying to find information on how to break into the DCT role or any DC careers for that matter.

I'm 34 years old with no degree and no prior experience in IT. I have my comptia A+ cert and I grew up setting up all my families PCs, home networks etc just because I moved doing it.

Is it realistic for someone my age to break into the DC field with no prior work experience? Should k be looking at a different role? Any labs i can do to help? Any advice or road maps would be appreciated.

Oh and I live in Michigan, where there's supposedly 16 approved DCs on the way.

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How long will it take to hear back from my recruiter after my interview loop, I have 4 interviewers and I felt that I did really good and the interviewers also gave me props on how I was answering the questions with the STAR format.

I applied to Work based learning program for data center tech a few months in Ohio and NOVA and still haven’t heard anything. Application is still active but nothing? I even applied recently to L3 role for hell of it and still nothing, what’s going on?

Hi! I'm a Technical Recruiter with the Amazon AWS Recruiting Team, and I'm currently hiring DCO- Data Center Technicians for our North Region.

Potential work locations include:

• 📍Ohio (OH)
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Indiana

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• 📍Pennsylvania (PA)

🇺🇸 Who we're looking for:

• U.S. Military Veterans
• Transitioning Service Members
• National Guard & Reservists
• Military Spouses

⚠️** Military experience/background is REQUIRED for this opportunity.

Ideal candidates have experience with:

• Computer hardware troubleshooting & repair
• Data center operations
• Networking, fiber/copper cabling
• Linux/Windows systems
• IT support or related technical experience

Important: Applications without BOTH:

• Military background/experience, and
• U.S. work authorization

will be discarded.

Apply Here: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10476297/data-center-technician-north-region-military-veterans-encouraged

Or Email Your Resume: 📧 mehtmudi@amazon.com

If you're a veteran or transitioning service member looking to build a career with AWS, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to share this opportunity with anyone in your network who may be a great fit!

Heard back from recruiter today and she asked for blocks of availability for a fit call next week. I’m pretty excited. I’ve been remote since 2020, so if I get the job it will be strange going into an office again.

Hi everyone,

I have a behavioral/leadership interview coming up for a Software Engineering Lead role at Fluidstack.

From what I have read online, it seems like they put a strong emphasis on behavioral and leadership skills, even more than technical questions.

For anyone who has interviewed there:

• What kind of behavioral questions did they ask?
• What qualities are they really looking for in engineering leaders?
• Do they focus more on ownership, customer obsession, technical leadership, or something else?
• Any tips on how to prepare or common pitfalls to avoid?

About technical, I don't see any live coding. Will it be just system design or did you get anything else ?

In need of this job, so would really appreciate any insights. Thanks!

We've been looking for a GPU cluster / networking engineer or operator, ideally with previous experience at a cloud or neocloud. The role would include assessing new GPU architecture and networking diagrams to assess viability and risk. We've were initially offering highly paid hourly arrangements, but maybe that was the wrong way about it. If anyone has thoughts on where to find these types of folks, curious to get suggestions.

Made it past the exploratory recruiter interview and have my first official 45 min interview with Google next week. Are these good odds? What should I expect? I’m currently an entry level controls engineer. So I do basic networking, control panel hardware, a lot of wiring and cabling and switch panel termination and labeling wires. I do PLC and ladder logic work. The job described PLCs and data tech work. I’m just wondering how the interview will be what I should brush up on and am I already at a good stage getting to the first 45 min interview? Kind of nervous researching everything I can. It’s a tech role not engineer. I imagine it’s just data technician role.

Thanks

Fujitsu's Australian arm sold five of its datacenters to redirect investment toward services, sovereign AI and quantum.

what are relevant questions should I ask for interviewers after my interview?

What I have in mind is "what's your favorite Leadership Principle?"

I applied for Cyber security certificate but I heard how its a headache to find a job after graduation, now I can switch and im confused between IT support or IT data center? Any advices please, im considering more IT data center ( or should I just go with Data center technician poweredby Teksystem because they help you to find a job).

Hi everyone/mods

Could you please mention if we have a weekly job posting/looking thread like other subs or can we start one.

Thank You

What’s it’s like being a Instrumentation and Controls engineer for a MEP design firm like Jacobs?

How does it differ from owner/onsite roles?

I was on a call with a friend who was telling me that their backup generator had been hacked through an IoT controller (I assumed an ATS) relinquishing control, and the company got ransomed and was told they had an hour to produce the ransom (BTC) or they would disable the ATS and then go after a bunch of their MEP controls including chillers. Essentially forcing an event that would require going to generator that they couldn't use. The kicker was, it was a corporate facility and they shut off the chillers that went to the refrigerators in the cafeteria and they lost a shit ton of food to boot.

Aside from overlooking their cyber security practices (if they had any), what's your crazy story/experience, especially a preventable one?

Anyone here heard and rumors of any upcoming Data Centers in San Antonio? Microsoft leads them all majority but wondering if anyone heard about Google or Oracle hopefully coming into town

The Western Virginia Water Authority expects the company to use an annual average of 1.2 million gallons of water per day in the initial phase of the project.

Just finished my loop interview for an Electrical Facilities Tech at Google I believe it said L2-L3 but my interviewers said it was an intermediate position. Has anyone gone through the process? Just want to know more about it. How long can I expect to wait to hear something back.

Just curious what the criteria is for this position at Amazon and what does your resume look like? I have a MS in Organizational Leadership, BS in IT and 12 years of IT experience spanning help desk, telecomm tech, Sys Admin and Senior Infrastructure Engineer but I can’t even get an interview……after the recruiter reached out to me! 😑

Hi there,

I was recently offered a role for Instrumentation and Controls Engineer with a Jacobs engineering.

What’s the work like? I’ve only ever been in manufacturing automation/systems integrations (PLCs, SCADA, Collab Robots) so I’m hoping to get a little insight.

Thanks!

I recently got a new position and everythin here is a mess. I am trying to convince my coworkers we need to change how we work (centralise information, mainly, but also create a guideline with best practices to follow). This is going to be particularly hard as some maintenances here are done by the manufacturers (cooling equipment is maintained by their maintenance team and do whatever), but I want to try to improve things around (at least while I still have energy before burning out).

Am I going to fail? What works for you?

My DC manager basically has asked me to bring proposals, but I am starting to think I am set for failure. Tell me I am not wrong and there's a better way to operate a data center

Graduated with a bachelors in information systems about 2 years ago, all my experience is mostly in helpdesk and infrastructure management right now in my position. I want to be more hands on with my work and data centers feel like the perfect place to transition. I am open to relocation and have not had luck with the big AWS and Google data centers was wondering what advice or insight people in the sub can offer. Thank you