Overview
Datacenter Technician Jobs in Mackenzie, British Columbia, Canada at Insight Global
Title: Datacenter Technician
Company: Insight Global
Location: Mackenzie, British Columbia, Canada
Required Skills & Experience
• 2 to 7 years of hands-on experience in structured cabling, fiber optic installation, or data center deployment
• Strong proficiency with single-mode fiber optic cabling, MPO/MTP connector types, and fan-out assemblies
• Demonstrated ability to perform proper cable routing, dressing, labeling, and securing in a production data center environment
• Experience reading and executing from rack elevation diagrams, port maps, cabling matrices, and LLD documentation without continuous supervision
• Working knowledge of data center physical infrastructure: rack-and-stack, cable tray systems, cable management arms, and structured cabling standards
• Comfortable providing informal technical guidance and pace direction to junior technicians in a pod or team environment
• Working knowledge of RDHx or DLC cooling infrastructure at the rack level; ability to cable in proximity to cooling components safely
• Understanding of ESD protocols, energized equipment safety, and liquid cooling leak awareness
• Physical capability to stand, walk, lift, and work in physically demanding conditions for extended shift durations
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
• Prior experience on a hyperscale, colocation, or enterprise GPU/AI data center deployment
• Familiarity with NVIDIA SN5610 leaf/spine switching infrastructure or similar high-density switch platforms
• Experience with Dell XE9780 GPU servers or comparable AI compute hardware
• BICSI INST1/INST2, FOA CFOT, or equivalent fiber optic installation certification
• Experience informally leading, mentoring, or providing direction to junior technicians on a deployment team
• Experience working in a remote or fly-in/fly-out job site environment
• Familiarity with optical loss testing, OTDR, and fiber certification tools
Job Summary
The DC Deployment and Network Technicians / Cabling roles spans L1 to L2 to L3 skill levels and serves as the technical resources within each deployment pod. These are working roles first. L2 and L3 technicians are hands-on installers executing alongside L1 technicians throughout the shift; they do not step away from the work to manage. Technicians at the L3 skill level additionally serve as pod captains, providing primary technical direction within the pod and functioning as the first escalation point for L1 technicians before issues reach the Technical Lead. L2-level technicians support the pod captain as the secondary working anchor. All Network Technicians are expected to maintain client standards and site safety requirements at all times and to model those standards for the technicians working alongside them.
