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 data center environment, ensuring high availability and system redundancy in a regulated, high-availability setting.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain electrical systems including UPS, switchgear, transformers, generators, fuel cells, and BESS.
- Operate and maintain critical cooling systems, including liquid cooling technologies and heat exchangers.
- Support and execute change management procedures such as 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.
- Maintain accurate documentation, labeling, and system diagrams.
- Enforce safety standards, including LOTO and electrical safety protocols.
- Participate in risk assessments, pre-task planning, and emergency response exercises.
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 such as rear-door heat exchangers, CDU-based systems, or direct-to-chip environments.
- Familiarity with structured change management processes including MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs.
- Experience supporting or working in audited or regulated environments (preferred).
- Experience with alternative energy systems such as fuel cells, BESS, or microgrid environments (a plus).
- Ability to operate and maintain electrical systems including UPS systems, switchgear, transformers, PDUs, generators, fuel cells, and BESS as applicable.
- 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 support incident response and recovery activities.
- Ability to operate and maintain critical cooling systems, including air and liquid-based systems, rear-door heat exchangers, CDUs, and direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems.
- Ability to assess operational impact of cooling system maintenance or failure conditions and validate system performance post-maintenance or change activity.
- Proficiency in drafting, reviewing, and executing MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs, and participating 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 reports.
- Knowledge of safety standards including enforcement of 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.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range (not specified)
Work schedule: 24/7 operational environment
Work environment perks: high-availability, mission-critical data center environment with safety and security compliance
Additional benefits: experience with green energy systems (fuel cells, BESS, microgrid), opportunity to work on innovative hydrogen-powered data centers, participation in emergency response and disaster recovery exercises, audit readiness, structured change management processes
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