Data Center Design Engineer

W2 only. Must work onsite 3 days a week in Chandler, AZ.

About the role

TEKsystems is seeking a Data Center Infrastructure Design Engineer 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; responsibilities center on designing and planning the infrastructure behind the data center, not 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.

Skills

• Data center design and optimization
• Data center migration
• Infrastructure planning and capacity strategy
• HVAC and mechanical cooling systems
• Electrical distribution systems
• Liquid cooling solutions
• Resiliency and redundancy engineering
• Engineering documentation and drawing review
• Commissioning and integrated systems testing
• Root cause analysis and corrective engineering

Qualifications

Ideal experience includes roles such as:

• Data Center Design Engineer
• Data Center Infrastructure Engineer
• Mission Critical Engineer
• Critical Facilities Design Engineer
• Electrical Design Engineer
• Mechanical Design Engineer
• Data Center Capacity Planning Engineer
• Infrastructure Planning Engineer
• Data Center Consulting Engineer

Pay

The pay range for this position is $60.53 - $60.53/hr. 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

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and 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-term 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 based in Chandler, AZ, requiring onsite work 3 days a week.