Job Description
The Data Center Engineer is responsible for maintaining the operational readiness, safety, and compliance of critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure systems in a mission-critical, high-availability data center environment, supporting continuous uptime and system redundancy.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain electrical systems including UPS, switchgear, transformers, generators, fuel cells, and BESS.
- Operate and maintain critical cooling systems such as rear-door heat exchangers, CDUs, and direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems.
- Support and execute change management procedures including drafting, reviewing, and implementing MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs.
- Monitor system health, load distribution, thermal performance, and system redundancy.
- Support incident response, recovery activities, and validate system performance post-maintenance.
- Ensure safety and security compliance by enforcing safety standards and supporting site access control.
- Maintain accurate documentation, labeling, and system diagrams; capture validation data and post-event reports.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in mission-critical facilities or data center operations.
- Working knowledge of medium and low voltage electrical systems.
- Experience with critical cooling infrastructure, including liquid cooling systems, rear-door heat exchangers, CDU-based systems, or direct-to-chip environments.
- Familiarity with structured change management processes such as MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs.
- Experience supporting or working in audited or regulated environments, such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 standards.
- Ability to operate and maintain electrical systems including UPS systems, switchgear, transformers, PDUs, generators, fuel cells, and BESS as applicable.
- Ability to operate and maintain critical cooling systems, both air and liquid-based, supporting environments utilizing rear-door heat exchangers, CDUs, and direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems.
- Ability to support switching activities under approved MOPs.
- Ability to monitor load distribution, system redundancy health, thermal performance, delta-T, flow rates, and capacity utilization.
- Ability to validate restoration of redundancy following maintenance events and assess operational impact of cooling system maintenance or failure conditions.
- Ability to support incident response and recovery activities.
- Ability to draft, review, and execute MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs, and participate in risk assessments and pre-task planning.
- Ability to maintain accurate as-built documentation, labeling, and system diagrams.
- Capability to capture validation evidence including alarms, trend data, and post-event reporting.
- Knowledge of safety standards including LOTO and electrical safety standards.
- Experience supporting site access control and vendor oversight.
- Ability to maintain audit readiness aligned with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls.
- Ability to participate in emergency response and disaster recovery exercises.
- Strong procedural discipline, calm and methodical under pressure, and attention to detail.
- Clear communication skills and sound escalation judgment.
- Commitment to safety and operational integrity.
- Ability to work in a 24/7 operational environment.
- Familiarity with alternative energy systems such as fuel cells, BESS, and microgrid environments is a plus.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range (not specified in the posting)
Work schedule: 24/7 operational environment
Work environment perks: high-availability, mission-critical data center environment with safety and security compliance
Additional benefits: opportunity to work on innovative green hydrogen-powered data centers, involvement in cutting-edge technology and disruptive advancements in AI and Machine Learning, participation in emergency response and disaster recovery exercises, audit readiness and structured change management practices, potential exposure to regulated environments and alternative energy systems
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