Cruise

Senior Lead Data Center Technician II

Scottsdale, AZ
USD 129k - 189k
Machine Learning
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Description

We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.

We’re building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.

In our cars, you’re free to be yourself. It’s the same here at Cruise. We’re creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work. 

Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.

Our Data Center Team is building a highly resilient, high-performant, and standards based On-Premise Data Center Infrastructure. This hosts our core backend services to control our fleet of vehicles, runs driving simulations at scale, and executes machine learning training jobs for our Autonomous Vehicle engineering team. We operate equipment from top tier infrastructure vendors and support highly available DC Operations We are looking for a Lead Data Center Technician to join our team!

What you’ll be doing: 

To ensure success, you should exhibit extensive experience in ensuring positive efficiency of infrastructure. Outstanding Data Center Technicians take proactive measures to prevent loss of data and damage to networks. Track record of leading technical projects as a directly responsible individual or critical supporting resource.

What you must have:

  • Submitting and tracking remote work requests and managing server, network and component inventory

  • Debugging hardware related issues with on-premise Infrastructure systems

  • What you must have:

  • 7+ years of data center experience where you worked with physical servers and network equipment

  • 3+ years of experience with holding a technical leadership role within DC Operations and Engineering

  • Designing, setting up, and managing information/network systems at data centers

  • Development of DC Operational standards for installation, troubleshooting and processing of systems

  • Monitoring, maintenance and problem identification for power/cooling systems that are detrimental to performance and efficiency

  • Ownership of RMA processes between on-premise equipment, infrastructure teams and manufacturers 

  • Diagnosing and repairing hardware and performing upgrades, integrations, rebuilds and other projects as needed

  • Experience in data center physical infrastructure design and build

  • Working knowledge of modern data center infrastructure management (DCIM)

  • Understanding of electrical and cooling systems with respect to data center environment

  • Prior experience with vendor management

  • Effective leadership skills to drive standardization and efficiency across the team 

Bonus points!

  • RCDD Certification Preferred

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, a collaborative nature and a friendly can-do attitude

  • A strong desire and aptitude for solving problems and performing deep technical dives to resolve issues quickly and efficiently

  • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation

  • A valid driver’s license (must be comfortable with driving from site to site)

The salary range for this position is $129,100 - 189,700. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.

Why Cruise?

  • Our benefits are here to support the whole you:

    • Competitive salary and benefits 
    • 401(k) Cruise matching program 
    • Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
    • One Medical membership
    • Subsidized mental health benefits
    • Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
    • Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
    • Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care, and medical leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, subsidized by Cruise
    • Flexible Spending Account 
    • Monthly wellness stipend
    • Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
    • CruiseFlex, a working policy for US-Based Cruisers, lets you and your manager find the working style that’s best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home, or a combination of home and in-office time. - learn more about CruiseFlex here
  • We’re Integrated

    • Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.

  • We’re Funded

    • GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.
  • We’re Independent

    • We have our own governance, board of directors, equity, and investors. Our independence allows us to not just work on the edge of technology, but also define it.
  • We’re Vested

    • You won’t just own your work here, you’ll have the potential to own equity in Cruise, too. We are competing in a market that is projected to grow exponentially, which gives our company valuation room to grow. We offer a new kind of equity program called Recurring Liquidity Opportunity (RLO), which combines IPO-like liquidity with the stability of remaining private - learn more about RLO here

Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.

Cruise is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know or email HR@getcruise.com.

We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. To help us track the effectiveness and inclusivity of our recruiting efforts, please consider answering the following demographic questions. Answering these questions is entirely voluntary. Your answers to these questions will not be shared with the hiring decision makers and will not impact the hiring decision in any way. Instead, Cruise will use this information not only to comply with any government reporting obligations but also to track our progress toward meeting our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging objectives.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Cruise does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Furthermore, Cruise does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners. 

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