Facilities Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and govern engineering standards for all FiberLight network facilities including:
• Roadside Right-of-Way (RoW) cabinets
• Cabinet regeneration facilities
• Communications shelters
• Data center deployments
• Large-scale hyperscale and carrier infrastructure facilities
• Serve as the subject matter expert for all facility-related infrastructure including:
• Commercial power systems
• DC power plants
• Battery systems
• Generator systems
• Environmental controls
• Telemetry and monitoring systems
• Physical security systems
• Camera and access control systems
• Design and support facility infrastructure for network expansion projects, new market deployments, regeneration facilities, and major customer initiatives.
• Develop standard facility architectures, bill of materials templates, engineering specifications, construction guidelines, and deployment methodologies.
• Establish power capacity planning standards, augmentation policies, utilization thresholds, and lifecycle management processes.
• Lead facility power studies, load analysis, battery runtime calculations, and generator sizing activities.
• Develop and manage battery replacement strategies, maintenance schedules, testing procedures, and end-of-life replacement programs.
• Design and oversee generator deployments including site readiness, fuel planning, maintenance contracts, testing programs, and operational procedures.
• Collaborate with Strategic Engineering and Network Engineering teams to ensure facility designs support current and future transport, IP, and optical network requirements.
• Support pre-sales activities by providing technical guidance to Sales Engineering, Product Management, and executive leadership regarding facility capabilities, power availability, space planning, and deployment feasibility.
• Participate in customer meetings supporting strategic opportunities, hyperscale deployments, carrier interconnection projects, and large-scale infrastructure initiatives.
• Develop standards and policies governing telemetry networks, environmental monitoring systems, remote management platforms, and facility observability.
• Collaborate with the NOC to establish monitoring requirements, alarm thresholds, escalation procedures, and operational response processes.
• Lead data center space planning initiatives including:
• New deployments
• Cage buildouts
• Cabinet expansion projects
• Facility consolidations
• Growth forecasting and capacity planning
• Evaluate existing facility footprints and develop long-term expansion strategies supporting network growth and customer demand.
• Manage vendor relationships involving facility construction, power systems, generators, battery vendors, security providers, and data center operators.
• Support disaster recovery planning, business continuity initiatives, and facility resiliency programs.
• Develop engineering documentation, standards manuals, low-level designs, construction packages, maintenance procedures, and operational best practices.
• Participate in major incident response efforts involving facility outages, commercial power failures, generator events, environmental alarms, and critical infrastructure failures.
• Support after-hours maintenance activities and provide escalation support during facility-related emergencies as required.
• Maintain facility documentation including facility layouts, rack face diagrams, and power and environmental operations for each facility.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in telecommunications, critical infrastructure, facilities engineering, electrical engineering, or network infrastructure environments.
• Extensive experience supporting telecommunications POPs, regeneration facilities, data centers, carrier hotels, or mission-critical infrastructure environments.
• Advanced knowledge of:
• DC power systems
• AC power distribution
• Battery technologies and backup systems
• Generator systems and fuel management
• Environmental monitoring systems
• Building management systems (BMS)
• Facility telemetry and remote monitoring
• Experience designing and supporting telecommunications facilities including cabinets, shelters, regeneration sites, and data center deployments.
• Strong understanding of power plant sizing, load calculations, battery reserve calculations, and facility capacity planning.
• Experience developing engineering standards, design templates, construction specifications, and operational procedures.
• Knowledge of physical security systems including cameras, access control systems, intrusion detection, and site hardening methodologies.
• Experience coordinating construction projects, power upgrades, generator installations, and facility expansion initiatives.
• Familiarity with carrier-class network infrastructure and operational requirements supporting optical transport, DWDM, IP, and Ethernet networks.
• Strong understanding of facility resiliency, redundancy design, disaster recovery, and business continuity principles.
• Experience working with field operations teams, contractors, utility providers, data center operators, and equipment vendors.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple infrastructure initiatives simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership, engineering organizations, operations teams, vendors, and customers.
• Strong documentation, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.