Sr. Energy Analyst – Infrastructure Modeling, Analytics & Demand Response

About the role

Your Role As a Sr. Energy Analyst, you will play a key role in optimizing energy use across a portfolio of enterprise data centers by developing energy infrastructure models, identifying demand flexibility opportunities, and supporting energy market participation strategies. This position leverages data-driven analytics to improve operational efficiency, enhance sustainability initiatives, monetize existing infrastructure assets, and accelerate site readiness while partnering closely with internal stakeholders, utilities, and external service providers.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain financial and operational models for behind-the-meter and onsite energy infrastructure, including natural gas generation, distributed energy resources (DERs), energy storage, backup generation, and other campus-level power assets.
• Perform portfolio analytics, forecasting, and sensitivity analysis to evaluate infrastructure utilization, site readiness, cost avoidance opportunities, revenue generation, and NOI impact.
• Analyze and forecast data center load flexibility opportunities and support demand-side optimization initiatives.
• Evaluate, enroll, and manage participation in Demand Response (DR), capacity, ancillary services, flexible load, and tariff optimization programs.
• Develop and enhance automated demand response strategies, including real-time and day-ahead event response plans.
• Monitor program performance, investigate underperformance issues, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions.
• Track energy market conditions, utility tariffs, regulatory developments, and industry trends that impact participation opportunities and energy strategy.
• Manage the intake, validation, normalization, integration, and quality assurance of energy-related datasets from vendors, utilities, consultants, and aggregators.
• Partner with engineering, operations, finance, procurement, development, utilities, grid operators, and third-party providers to support energy supply, infrastructure, financing, and demand flexibility initiatives.
• Deliver clear recommendations, reports, dashboards, and analytical insights that support strategic and operational decision-making across the portfolio.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in energy analytics, infrastructure analytics, demand response programs, utility operations, commercial and industrial (C&I) energy management, data center energy management, or a related field.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with experience building, maintaining, documenting, validating, and quality-checking business-critical models, dashboards, and datasets.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience with at least one data analysis or programming tool such as Python, R, or SQL.
• Understanding of power systems, grid programs, demand response markets, capacity and ancillary service programs, and energy market structures.
• Knowledge of utility tariffs, demand charges, distributed energy resources (DERs), and energy infrastructure economics.
• Ability to evaluate complex datasets and translate findings into actionable business recommendations.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating across multiple functions and managing relationships with internal teams and external partners.
• Experience supporting cloud, hyperscale, enterprise data center, utility, energy consulting, ISO/RTO, aggregator, DER, or large infrastructure environments preferred.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities while delivering accurate and timely analysis.

Qualifications

A Bit About Us Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .

Skills

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with at least one data analysis or programming tool such as Python, R, or SQL.
• Understanding of power systems, grid programs, demand response markets, capacity and ancillary service programs, and energy market structures.
• Knowledge of utility tariffs, demand charges, distributed energy resources (DERs), and energy infrastructure economics.
• Ability to evaluate complex datasets and translate findings into actionable business recommendations.
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience collaborating across multiple functions and managing relationships with internal teams and external partners.
• Experience supporting cloud, hyperscale, enterprise data center, utility, energy consulting, ISO/RTO, aggregator, DER, or large infrastructure environments.
• Strong organizational skills.

Benefits

A Bit About Our Team Operations Our Operations team keeps our customers’ infrastructure running safely and securely. We get plenty of opportunities to take on a variety of tasks and develop our technical skills. From overseeing electrical power to cooling and fire suppression systems, our team plays a vital role in making sure everything in our data centers operates as it should.

Pay

$110,000 – $137,500 annually.

Schedule

N/A