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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 Hillsboro, OR.\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.\nAs an onsite Data Center Engineer, you will be responsible for hardware deployments and acting as a point of escalation for our contracted employees responsible for addressing server break fix tickets. You will also assist Senior Data Center Engineers with the deployment of network, storage, and server nodes within your region. We are looking for candidates with server and network hardware installation experience, network cabling experience, server break fix experience, experience troubleshooting Linux Kickstart issues, and Linux/Unix troubleshooting skills.\nResponsibilities:\nOperate, monitor, and maintain the liquid-cooling infrastructure supporting LinkedIn's GPU and machine learning fleet, including Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs), secondary/technology cooling loops, manifolds, quick-disconnects, and rear-door heat exchangers.\nMonitor loop health - supply/return temperature (ΔT), differential pressure (ΔP), flow rate, and fluid conductivity - and act on alarms before they impact GPU availability.\nPerform and coordinate coolant sampling, water chemistry and fluid quality testing, filter changes, and fluid top-offs in accordance with OEM and LinkedIn standards.\nOn a daily basis, review LinkedIn's DCIM Incident Dashboard and act on any fatal or warning incidents, escalating to your regional Site Supervisor or Senior Critical Infrastructure Engineer as necessary. Triage warning notifications to determine how they should be acted upon or suppressed.\nMonitor environmentals for all data center suites and ensure they remain within ASHRAE standards as defined in our leases with providers.\nUtilize internal tools (DCIM) and external tools (provider portals, BMS) to monitor power load, capacity, and environmental data across all data center suites.\nReview all MOPs, SOPs, and maintenance advisories provided by the facility operator; flag gaps, sequencing risk, or deviations from LinkedIn standards before work begins.\nEnsure major maintenance activities are captured in LinkedIn's internal change management process with appropriate risk classification, notification, and rollback plans.\nMaintain the regional Critical Infrastructure maintenance calendar and keep stakeholders informed of upcoming high-risk activities.\nCoordinate and schedule supplier/vendor onsite activities, including access, escort, and safety briefings.\nExercise stop-work authority - recognize when vendor work is unsafe, out of sequence, or out of compliance, and halt the work to address concerns.\nIn collaboration with the provider's site engineering team, support annual and quarterly preventive maintenance on all critical infrastructure, verifying that LinkedIn standards and industry best practices are followed.\nSupport server, storage, and network deployments within your region - racking, cabling, initial configuration, and quality control of vendor-completed installs against LinkedIn cabling and labeling standards.\nPerform and support component-level hardware break-fix (DIMMs, CPUs, fans, power supplies, HDD/SSD/NVMe, risers) and serve as an escalation point for managed-services technicians.\nTroubleshoot physical-layer network issues across copper and fiber, including optics, console connectivity, and link and path validation.\n Basic Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree or equivalent industry experience. Relevant trade or technical certification (electrical, mechanical/HVAC, facilities, or military technical training) will also be considered.\n2+ years in a data center operations, critical facilities, or comparable infrastructure role.\nHands-on server hardware break-fix at the component level - DIMMs, CPUs, fans, power supplies, HDD/SSD/NVMe, risers, and cabling.\nServer and network deployment experience - racking, cabling, and initial configuration, including structured cabling and labeling standards and QC of vendor-completed installs.\nPhysical-layer network troubleshooting across copper and fiber - optics and transceivers, console connectivity, link and path validation.\nLinux troubleshooting at the OS level (boot/POST, log review, basic system diagnosis). Experience with imaging or provisioning workflows such as kickstart, autobuild, or PXE.\nOut-of-band management experience - IPMI/BMC, iDRAC, iLO, or equivalent.\nExperience with data center critical infrastructure - UPS, generator, switchgear, PDUs and busway, and chiller plant - and an understanding of redundancy topology (N+1, 2N).\nPreferred Qualifications:\nDirect liquid-cooling experience - CDUs (Vertiv, Motivair, CoolIT, Boyd, nVent), rear-door heat exchangers, manifolds, quick-disconnects, and drip/leak detection. Adjacent closed-loop experience also applies: chilled-water HVAC, industrial process cooling, semiconductor fab facilities, power generation, or marine/Navy engineering.\nGPU and ML hardware exposure - NVIDIA HGX/DGX platforms, high-density rack deployments, and OEM break-fix coordination.\nWater chemistry and fluid quality management - conductivity, corrosion inhibitor and biocide treatment, PG25 vs. treated water, filtration micron ratings, and sampling cadence.\nMOP and SOP review experience - evaluating maintenance procedures before execution.\nVendor or data center provider coordination, including escorting, scheduling, and holding third parties to standard.\nSuggested Skills:\nExperience with incident dashboards, DCIM, BMS, or provider portals, including the judgment to determine what to act on, escalate, or suppress.\nTicket-driven operational discipline - owning a queue against SLA expectations and coordinating resolution across teams and vendors.\nChange management discipline in a live production environment, plus operational safety fundamentals (lockout/tagout, arc flash awareness, PPE, OSHA and state regulations).\nAbility to read schematics, P&IDs, and technical diagrams to determine the proper sequence of operations for maintenance activities.\nLinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.\nThe pay range for this role is $90,000 to $148,000. 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. 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