Data Center Engineer

Job Title: Data Center Engineer

Location: Irvine, CA (3 days onsite)

Job Description:

This position offers a fantastic combination of broad, hands-on operations and design responsibilities, a fast pace, great independence and the support needed to succeed, plus an extremely supportive company culture.

Skills and experiences include the following:

• Ability to lead or participate in the design of datacenter modifications, including design of new cooling systems, electrical distribution systems, and BMS changes.
• Power, cooling, and space capacity planning for whitespace buildouts.
• Project management and vendor management experience.
• Ability to perform and deeply understand all common cooling calculations and basic power calculations on single and 3-phase circuits.
• Ability to extract data and trends from BMS systems, with an understanding of how to use this data for diagnosis and troubleshooting.
• Strong ability to read, interpret and work with engineering documents such as Single-Line Electrical Drawings, network architecture drawings, P&IDs, SOPs, Sequence of Operations, maintenance manuals, or other operational documentation as it pertains to datacenter infrastructure.
• Hands-on ability to operate the infrastructure of a modern data center, including cooling, power, security systems, maintenance operations, and building management systems.
• Maintenance planning and coordination, including administration of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
• Development of Energy Control Procedures (ECP), performing Lockout Tagout (LOTO), and developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
• Working knowledge of MEP standards and operations, safe work practices, Arc flash hazards (NFPA 70e), Lock-out Tag-out, and OSHA standards.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and diagnostic skills.
• Accommodate responsibilities as a site responder for critical after hours issues.

Strong working knowledge of:

• Electrical Power Distribution
• Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS)
• Diesel Engine Emergency Power Plants
• Direct Expansion and Centrifugal Refrigeration Systems
• Evaporative Cooling Towers, Pumps, and Water Distribution Systems
• Air Handling Units
• Distributed Control Systems or BMS (especially ALC) and associated communication protocols.
• Hydronic systems, Valves and Flow Control Devices and Sensors
• Motor Controls and Variable Frequency Drives
• Chemical Water Treatment
• Fire Detection and Protection Systems