Data Center Capacity Engineer Staff

Equinix; Council of the City of Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global digital infrastructure company is seeking a Capacity Engineer to manage critical facilities in their APAC team. The ideal candidate will have an engineering degree, strong analytical skills, and experience with data center operations. This position offers a hybrid working model and excellent career prospects within a growing team.

Benefits

Onsite parking with free EV chargers

Health allowance

Annual bonus

Access to onsite gym and facilities

Qualifications

• Strong technical mindset and ability to work through complex solutions.
• Key understanding of power and cooling in data centers.
• Excellent communication with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Process requests for Hub and escalate complex requests.
• Develop process designs for deployments.
• Ensure power and cooling support in data centers.

Skills

Engineering mindset

Strong communication skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Education

Engineering Degree in Electrical, Mechanical or related field

Tools

CAD

Job description

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company , operating over 26 0 data centers across the globe . Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.

Joining our operations team means that you will be at the forefront of all we do, maintaining critical facilities infrastructure as part of a close-knit team delivering best-in-class service to our data center customers. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

As a Capacity Engineer in the APAC Capacity team, you will be joining a growing department of the business going through an important and integral period of change and play an increasingly important role for Equinix particularly for our operations teams and customer base.

The Capacity Engineer Staff will use their strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to match an engineering mindset to triage, escalate, assess or carry out key responsibilities around customer deployments within our data centers across APAC.

Capacity Engineering globally is playing an increasingly more important part of the Equinix business, and this role (open due to an internal promotion) will suit a strong analytical and technical engineer who can thrive in an environment with some routine/ BAU tasks as well as diving into more complex duties over time.

Key responsibilities:

• Accepting and processing requests for Hub (FIFO method), escalating advanced or complex requests to senior members as necessary
• Actively participate and contribute within meetings with internal stakeholders such as our Operations Engineers and Sales Engineers
• Develop process designs for deployments and seeks to directly resolves issues where possible, or escalate to relevant colleagues as required
• Works on more complex/large, proposed designs with Manager or Senior Engineers within the capacity team
• Develops key solutions for sales opportunities seeking input from relevant parties or places, including intranet, Hub Lead or colleagues
• Ensures cooling support support through airflow calculations or escalating for CFD modelling as necessary
• Ensure power support (including circuit management) through infrastructure checks
• Escalating HPD deployment where necessary
• Ensuring design fit within our data centers, and triage or escalate concerns where adverse impacts to colocation or density or sellable space may occur
• Escalate any issues/constraints around site infrastructure to DA&E team
• Responsible for updating CAD drawings for Proposed Designs and deployments
• Resolves any deployment issues (cabinets/cages) where physical deployment differs from virtual records
• Works to resolves any complex DQM issues, and creates USID and associated inventory objects
• May work with regional peers and AP project team on to fulfil any capacity or customer related obligations
• Answer general inventory/infrastructure related questions for stakeholders or escalates to senior team members, this includes any requests coming in centrally from our Hub Queue that falls out of scope for different teams

Qualifications, key skills and attributes:

• Engineering Degree in Electrical, Mechanical or related field
• Strong technical mindset and ability to work through complex and highly technical solutions
• Key understanding of power and cooling in data centers, or from varied industries where skillset and experience in transferrable
• Excellent communication skills, including ability to work with internal and external stakeholders from geographically and culturally different backgrounds
• High attention to details, CAD experience, and ability to attain and maintain complex information

Key responsibilities:

• Hybrid working close to train station and transport links, onsite parking with free use of EV chargers, onsite gym and facilities
• Salary package including company shares, health allowance and annual bonus
• Play an increasingly important role within Equinix Operations and excellent career prospects within Capacity Engineering team that is growing and becoming more integral to the business's success

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form .

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.