Data Center Design Engineer

This is a 12-24 month contract position based in Charlotte, NC, offering a hybrid work schedule (3 days in-office, 2 days remote).

About the role

We are seeking experienced Data Center Infrastructure Design Engineers to support the design, optimization, expansion, and long-term capacity planning of mission-critical data center environments. This role focuses on the physical infrastructure that powers and cools the data center, including electrical distribution systems, mechanical cooling systems, capacity planning, resiliency engineering, liquid cooling initiatives, and infrastructure modernization projects.

The ideal candidate will have experience designing and optimizing critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure, developing long-term capacity strategies, reviewing engineering designs, and supporting next-generation data center deployments. This is not an IT operations role; we are seeking engineers who design and plan the infrastructure behind the data center, not those whose primary responsibility is supporting servers, storage, networking, or cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize mission-critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure supporting data center operations.
• Develop long-term power, cooling, and space capacity plans to support future growth and infrastructure demand.
• Support data center expansion, upgrade, retrofit, and modernization initiatives.
• Evaluate and improve infrastructure resiliency, redundancy, and operational efficiency.
• Design and support liquid cooling solutions and associated piping and cooling infrastructure within data center environments.
• Review engineering drawings, design packages, one-line diagrams, specifications, and technical documentation.
• Perform infrastructure analysis to identify risks, constraints, and opportunities for optimization.
• Support commissioning, integrated systems testing, and infrastructure validation efforts.
• Conduct root cause analysis of critical infrastructure issues and develop corrective engineering solutions.
• Partner with facilities engineering, construction teams, utilities, vendors, commissioning teams, and critical systems stakeholders throughout project lifecycles.
• Utilize operational data, telemetry, and engineering metrics to improve infrastructure performance, reliability, and efficiency.

Requirements

• Expert-level experience in data center infrastructure design and optimization.
• Experience with electrical distribution systems, mechanical cooling systems, and capacity planning.
• Experience with liquid cooling solutions and infrastructure modernization projects.
• Ability to review engineering drawings, design packages, and technical documentation.
• Strong analytical skills for infrastructure risk assessment and optimization.

Skills

• Data center infrastructure design
• Data center migration
• Cooling systems

Pay

The pay range for this position is $60.53/hour. Individual compensation offered within this range will depend on qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Benefits

If eligible, benefits available for this temporary role may include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Critical illness, accident, and hospital insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available)
• Life Insurance (voluntary life and AD&D for employee and dependents)
• Short- and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, vacation, or sick leave)

Schedule

This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days in-office and 2 days remote per week, based in Charlotte, NC.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation, helping clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe, and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change.