Principal Data Center Facilities Engineer

Responsibilities

• Critical Environment Maintenance Support
• Lead advanced diagnostics for systemic reliability issues
• Drive remediation programs that eliminate recurring failure modes
• Establish performance targets and reliability KPIs
• Establish dashboards and audits to validate adherence to SLAs and regulatory requirements
• Lead high-severity incident response across regions
• Coordinate rapid stabilization, stakeholder communications, and executive updates
• Institutionalize standardized root cause analysis (RCA) methodologies and CAPA governance
• Develop and maintain enterprise emergency operations plans
• Run simulation exercises and implement continuous improvements based on lessons learned
• Lead technical oversight for site assessments, design reviews, uptime requirements, commissioning strategy, and integrated systems testing on high-priority builds and retrofits
• Approve commissioning documentation and acceptance criteria
• Validate performance against design intent, reliability targets, and maintainability standards before handover
• Drive cross-functional alignment (design, construction, commissioning, operations) to integrate new systems with existing infrastructure and tooling
• Serve as principal SME for complex and novel scenarios in operations of mission-critical systems (power, cooling, BAS, fire/life safety)
• Leads CAB process for change management and operational readiness for upgrades and expansion
• Govern operational procedures, MOP/SOP/EOP standards, and access controls
• Align operations with capacity, performance, and sustainability objectives
• Oversee optimization initiatives that reduce PUE, improve utilization, and control operating costs
• Provides SME technical support for contract negotiations including generation and review of contracts, change orders and due diligence validation
• Engineering Design, Leadership, and Governance
• Define and maintain best-in-class policies, technical standards, and playbooks
• Chair engineering review boards and the process for high-risk changes
• Provide senior engineering guidance for complex design challenges, lifecycle strategies, and modernization roadmaps (e.g., controls upgrades, UPS/generator strategies, cooling transformations)
• Prepare and review technical reports and business cases that guide investment decisions and long-horizon planning

Qualifications

• Highly self-directed
• Able to travel to onsite locations
• Strong experience in data center design and critical infrastructure operations
• Exceptional customer focus and effective collaboration with internal data center teams and business partners
• Define and govern enterprise standards for preventive and predictive maintenance across electrical, mechanical, liquid to chip, and life-safety systems
• Ensure consistent execution and documentation across all sites
• Lead advanced diagnostics for systemic reliability issues
• Drive remediation programs that eliminate recurring failure modes
• Establish performance targets and reliability KPIs
• Establish dashboards and audits to validate adherence to SLAs and regulatory requirements
• Lead high-severity incident response across regions
• Coordinate rapid stabilization, stakeholder communications, and executive updates
• Institutionalize standardized root cause analysis (RCA) methodologies and CAPA governance
• Track cross-site action closure and effectiveness
• Develop and maintain enterprise emergency operations plans
• Run simulation exercises and implement continuous improvements based on lessons learned
• Lead technical oversight for site assessments, design reviews, uptime requirements, commissioning strategy, and integrated systems testing on high-priority builds and retrofits
• Approve commissioning documentation and acceptance criteria
• Validate performance against design intent, reliability targets, and maintainability standards before handover
• Drive cross-functional alignment (design, construction, commissioning, operations) to integrate new systems with existing infrastructure and tooling
• Serve as principal SME for complex and novel scenarios in operations of mission-critical systems (power, cooling, BAS, fire/life safety)
• Leads CAB process for change management and operational readiness for upgrades and expansion
• Govern operational procedures, MOP/SOP/EOP standards, and access controls
• Align operations with capacity, performance, and sustainability objectives
• Oversee optimization initiatives that reduce PUE, improve utilization, and control operating costs
• Provides SME technical support for contract negotiations including generation and review of contracts, change orders and due diligence validation
• Define and maintain best-in-class policies, technical standards, and playbooks
• Chair engineering review boards and the process for high-risk changes
• Provide senior engineering guidance for complex design challenges, lifecycle strategies, and modernization roadmaps (e.g., controls upgrades, UPS/generator strategies, cooling transformations)
• Prepare and review technical reports and business cases that guide investment decisions and long-horizon planning