Network / System Engineer III

About the role

Position Type: Potential Contract to hire
Duration: 12+ Months (Potential Contract to hire)
Location: Charlotte, NC – Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote per week – local candidates only

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, improve, and expand the physical infrastructure of a data center (not the IT hardware or software running inside it)
• Perform capacity planning for power, space, and cooling
• Conduct infrastructure resiliency, redundancy, and failover analysis
• Lead data center construction, upgrades, and commissioning activities
• Perform root cause analysis of infrastructure failures
• Work with DCIM, monitoring, and engineering metrics
• Partner with construction teams, utilities, vendors, and facility stakeholders

Key areas of experience

• Critical electrical infrastructure (utility service, switchgear, generators, UPS systems, power distribution)
• Cooling and mechanical systems supporting data centers
• Capacity planning for power, space, and cooling
• Infrastructure resiliency, redundancy, and failover analysis
• Data center construction, upgrades, and commissioning activities
• Root cause analysis of infrastructure failures
• DCIM, monitoring, and engineering metrics

Required Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of data center critical infrastructure, including mechanical, electrical, and/or structured cabling systems, with an engineering or technical discipline background
• Experience supporting budgets and cost controls for data center projects and infrastructure operations, including exposure to capital projects and vendor cost management
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Real Estate, Critical Systems, Construction, and Technology teams to deliver infrastructure projects and operational outcomes

Desired Qualifications

• 7–8 years of experience in Data Center, Critical Systems, or related infrastructure engineering disciplines
• Demonstrated experience supporting data center engineering, construction, upgrades, or integration activities within a large or multisite environment
• Working knowledge of risk assessment and availability concepts for data centers or colocation environments; ability to contribute to availability modeling and resiliency planning
• Solid understanding of data center technologies and associated monitoring, environmental, and infrastructure management tools (e.g., power, cooling, telemetry, DCIM)

Pay

Pay range: $55/hr to $60/hr (based on education, experience, location, duties, certifications, etc.)

Benefits

• Medical & pharmacy coverage
• Dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Health savings account (HSA) and flexible spending account (FSA)
• Life insurance
• Pet insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Accident & critical illness coverage
• Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection
• Sick time and other paid leaves (as required by law)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)