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Data Centre Technician

IBM

IBM

Data Science
United Kingdom · Hursley, UK
Posted on Mar 13, 2026
Introduction

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you’ll be member of a small team that provide crucial support to our worldwide development and customer support teams.

The role will involve the day to day support of a large data centre like environment, that we use to develop and support our products.

You will have hands on access to our products, technologies and tools needed to build development and test configurations needed to develop and test our products. You will have the opportunity to work with and support colleagues from multiple time zones.

You will:

  • Provide local support for colleagues who will be remotely accessing configurations at the IBM Hursley location
  • Design and build of configurations using the latest fibre channel, ethernet and storage technologies
  • Ensure the data centre environment is safe and well-ordered
  • Support the management of the lab inventory
  • Support incoming and outgoing shipments of hardware

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Ensuring the data centres are safe and tidy, reporting any issues observed
  • Assisting in the hardware build of new products
  • Supporting our worldwide teams request for configuration changes within test configurations within the data centres
  • Managing h/w and component inventory within the data centres
  • Supporting incoming and outgoing shipments to/from our partners and WW teams
Required education
None
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Experience working with Excel - Experience installing Linux & VMware
  • Accurate and timely record keeping
  • Able and willing to safely move large and heavy hardware
  • Experience working within a data centre environment
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience working with servers, storage and networking technologies
  • Able to install data and power cables in a safe and tidy manner
  • Experience installing and removing hardware within 42U rack cabinets
  • Experience administering and supporting Linux & VMware

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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