Senior Field Engineer - Data Centers

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and maintain global consistent colocation design standards to drive equivalent resilience in new and existing data centers.
• Support the deployment of new ServerFarm products in colocation data centers in a consistent way, including liquid cooling and high-density racks and systems to support hyperscale requirements for Cloud-compute, Machine Learning and AI services.
• Reviews and updates global design standards and generational data center template designs.
• Support development and operational engineering teams to review and accept proposed changes to site-specific infrastructure at ServerFarm data centers to validate standards, and to identify and document Accepted Deviations when appropriate.
• Work with internal and external global teams to drive consistent standard solutions to expedite review processes and drive cost efficiency.
• Set up global strategies to deploy specific customer products or design, and to drive consistency and efficiencies for delivering customer requirements. Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Documentation, release and management of design guides, standards, specifications and procedures.
• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
• 35% domestic and international travel.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical or closely aligned engineering discipline, or commensurate industry experience or military experience in lieu of degree may be acceptable.
• 5+ years of electrical non-intern engineering experience in Mission Critical facilities including, but not limited to data centers, power generation, oil/gas, and other mission critical facilities and/or infrastructure. (Experienced Engineer)
• 3+ years of experience defining system-level architecture, performance, and equipment requirements, conceptual designs, project documentation and project delivery and hand-off.
• 2+ years of experience in developing and presenting business case analysis to senior leadership.

Preferred Skills

• Chartered or Professional Engineer (PE).
• Experience of working with large global data center providers in multiple regions globally.
• Knowledge of local building codes and safety regulations in multiple jurisdictions.
• Ability to develop new concepts through exploration, design, testing and into deployment/mass production.
• Proven track record in creating and releasing high quality, consistent documentation for processes, standards
• and procedures.
• 5+ years of leading root cause analysis of equipment or system failures as well as incident support management.
• Knowledge of critical data center equipment (Generators, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Switchgear, Transformers, Power Feeders, Chillers, Plumbing, Fire Detection/Suppression, Air Handling Units, Computer Room Air Handling/Conditioning Units, Chillers, UPS, CRAH, CRAC…).
• Demonstrated knowledge of electrical design codes in different locations, knowledge working with SPOF.
• Strong record of mentoring and growing teams.
• Excellent verbal and writing communication skills.

Travel Requirements

• Regular travel (30% - 25% domestic/5% international) to data center locations to meet with local authorities/utility leaders and internal customers.
• Occasional travel (5%) to industry conferences to maintain key partner and customer relationships.