Lead Data Center Operations & Systems Technician

About Blueprint Blueprint is a technology solutions firm headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with teams across the United States. We help organizations turn complex challenges into meaningful outcomes by connecting strategy and execution across AI, cloud, data, product development, and emerging technology. Our culture is built by people who care deeply about doing exceptional work. We set high standards, take ownership, and continually challenge ourselves and one another to be better. We work hard, support each other, and take genuine pride in what we deliver for our clients, partners, and teams. At Blueprint, you’ll work alongside talented people with different experiences, expertise, and perspectives. You’ll have opportunities to take on meaningful challenges, expand your skills, and see the impact of what you build. Bring your perspective. Raise the standard. Build what matters. About the Role We’re looking for a Lead Data Center Operations & Systems Technician to join our team. In this hands-on lead role, you’ll lead complex data center operations, infrastructure deployments, maintenance activities, and incident response across server, network, storage, cabling, and supporting systems. You’ll provide technical direction, coordinate resources and deployment readiness, resolve escalated issues, and drive improvements across documentation, reporting, training, and operational processes. This role requires adherence to client best practices, security requirements, and safety protocols. What You'll Do Lead and perform complex installation, rack-and-stack, cabling, configuration, maintenance, migration, and decommissioning work across servers, network devices, storage systems, rack power distribution units, and rack and MOR cabling. Serve as a technical escalation point for hardware, software, imaging, network, connectivity, and configuration issues. Lead root-cause analysis and coordinate restoration and remediation activities. Review server, network, storage, and device health, alerts, tickets, and logs. Identify systemic risks and establish clear response, escalation, and follow-through actions. Configure, review, and validate switches, firewalls, wireless access points, IP addressing, VLANs, DHCP, DNS, domain access, and device-to-device communication within approved scope and change controls. Lead server imaging and deployment using MDT, WDS, PXE, or equivalent environments. Oversee patching, firmware, baseline configuration, validation, exception handling, and deployment readiness. Own technical planning for complex installations, maintenance windows, and deployments. Define scope, sequencing, resource allocation, dependencies, implementation notes, readiness criteria, rollback plans, validation steps, and stakeholder coordination. Prioritize and allocate equipment and technical resources across competing operational and project demands based on urgency, risk, business needs, and readiness. Review configuration backups and recovery evidence, identify gaps, and ensure procedures support operational recovery requirements. Establish and maintain high-quality technical procedures, network diagrams, maintenance histories, repair records, configuration standards, inventory controls, and knowledge documentation. Oversee the accuracy of project, inventory, and asset tracking. Develop operational, inventory, compliance, capacity, and project-status reporting for stakeholders. Identify operational trends, control gaps, recurring issues, and process inefficiencies. Lead corrective actions and measurable continuous-improvement initiatives. Provide day-to-day technical direction, mentoring, training, work review, and knowledge transfer for junior and mid-level technicians. Support safe and effective technical execution without replacing formal people-management responsibilities. Represent data center operations in technical discussions, readiness reviews, incident reviews, and cross-functional planning. Communicate risks, tradeoffs…