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Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun - where everyone can succeed.\nJoin us to transform the way the world works.\n This role will be based in Manassas, VA.\nAt LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is on-site, meaning it will be performed in the specified office on a full-time basis due to the business needs of the team.\nThis role may require working evening or overnight shifts (3:00 PM - 12:00 AM or 11:00 PM - 8:00 AM).\nThe Associate Data Center Hardware Engineer is a hands-on technical role focused on ensuring the reliability and performance of LinkedIn's global infrastructure. This position is responsible for executing hardware break-fix activities, providing advanced troubleshooting support, and serving as an escalation point for contracted data center technicians. In addition to performing direct repair work, the role partners with vendors, mentors contract staff, and drives consistency in service delivery across all LinkedIn data center operations.\nResponsibilities:\nPerform break-fix repairs, including but not limited to replacing failed drives, DIMMs, fans, power supplies, and other server or network hardware components.\nTroubleshoot and resolve escalated issues from contracted technicians, applying diagnostics and escalating unresolved issues to Data Center Hardware Engineers or LinkedIn engineering teams as needed.\nInstal new SSD's and NVME's into existing servers.\nConduct basic Linux OS and IPMI-level troubleshooting across all server platforms\nAssist LinkedIn engineers with troubleshooting and resolving autobuild (Linux Kickstart) failures, including - straggler- nodes.\nDiagnose and resolve physical-layer network connectivity issues.\nExecute hardware installations and repairs outside the scope of planned quarterly organic growth projects.\nActively monitor and engage with the Jira ticket queue, ensuring proper ticket handling and quality resolution by contracted data center technicians.\nParticipate in onboarding new contracted data center technicians, including training on daily operational tasks.\nServe as a technical mentor for contracted data center technicians, providing training and guidance to improve quality and consistency.\nParticipate in an on-call rotation to support global data center operations.\n Basic Qualifications:\n1+ years in a Data Center Engineering Role\n1+ years of Linux troubleshooting experience\n1+ years of server hardware troubleshooting experience\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree or equivalent industry experience.\n2+ years in a Data Center Engineering Role\n2+ years Linux troubleshooting experience.\n2+ years server hardware troubleshooting experience.\nSuggested Skills:\nHardware Deployment & Installation\nProject Management\nTicketing Systems (Jira, ServiceNow)\nLinux/Unix\nServer and Network Troubleshooting\n LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.\nThe pay range for this role is $74,000 to $122,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.\nThe total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.\nEqual Opportunity Statement\nWe seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.\nLinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.\nIf you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at  and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.\nReasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:\nDocuments in alternate formats or read aloud to you\nHaving interviews in an accessible location\nBeing accompanied by a service dog\nHaving a sign language interpreter present for the interview\nA request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.\nLinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.\nPay Transparency Policy Statement\nAs a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.\nGlobal Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates\nPlease follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.\nEqual Opportunity Statement\nWe seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.\nLinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.\nIf you need a Reasonable Accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us and describe the specific Accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.\nFill out an Accommodation request here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/b660a0327d044969abfd7a4e73d15c36\nReasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:\nDocuments in alternate formats or read aloud to you\nHaving interviews in an accessible location\nBeing accompanied by a service dog\nHaving a sign language interpreter present for the interview\nA request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. 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