Data Center Administrator

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Position Summary

athenahealth is seeking a Data Center Engineering team member to support the full lifecycle of physical infrastructure across our data center environment. This role is responsible for maintaining servers, storage, networking equipment, and facility conditions that support athenahealths large and evolving EHR and practice management ecosystem.

This is a 100% onsite role at our data center in Columbus, Ohio.

About the Team

The Data Center Engineering Team (DCEng) manages the physical devices and environmental conditions that support athenahealths production infrastructure. The team works closely with vendors, operations teams, and internal partners to execute maintenance tasks, coordinate equipment lifecycle activities, and support the growth of the environment.

Core Responsibilities

• 24x7 operational support

  • Share responsibility for supporting data center-specific issues with local team members.

  • Serve as the first responder for technical and facility-related issues within the data center.

• Hardware lifecycle management

  • Manage the full lifecycle of servers, storage, and network equipment, including receiving, racking, maintenance, and recycling.

  • Coordinate replacement of failed components and support hardware repair activities.

  • Provide remote hands support for physical server, network, and telecommunications equipment.

• Facility and infrastructure support

  • Work with operations teams and vendors to ensure equipment is operating optimally.

  • Coordinate and supervise facility maintenance.

  • Perform daily walkthroughs to check for error lights, inventory discrepancies, and facility issues.

  • Maintain cleanliness of the data center, office, and storage areas.

  • Ensure cable management and environment policies meet department standards.

• Troubleshooting and problem solving

  • Diagnose and resolve hardware, network, and physical connectivity issues.

  • Participate in problem-solving and process improvement efforts related to data center operations.

  • Contribute to planning, design, and documentation related to power, cooling, layer 1 networking, and policies.

• Team and culture contributions

  • Build strong relationships with the data center facility manager and team.

  • Contribute to the DCEng knowledge base, documentation, and team culture.

Required Experience & Skills

• Ability to lift equipment up to 50 lbs.

• Experience in a production data center environment, highly preferred.

• Understanding of data center power and cooling infrastructure, preferred.

• Strong understanding of server components and repair, preferred.

• Ability to troubleshoot Dell and HP server hardware and open vendor support cases, preferred.

• Basic understanding of power and cooling systems in data environments, preferred.

• Basic understanding of the Linux command line interface, preferred.

Why This Role Matters

This role helps maintain the physical foundation that keeps athenahealths platform reliable, scalable, and operational. The work directly supports infrastructure health, service continuity, and the teams that depend on this environment every day.

Expected Compensation

The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.

About athenahealth

Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Our company culture: Our talented employees or athenistas, as we call ourselves spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.

Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.

What we can do for you:

Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces some offices even welcome dogs.

We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.

Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers