Capacity Engineer Staff

Equinix; Slough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Capacity Engineer Staff to join their operations team. This role involves maintaining critical facilities infrastructure, creating innovative design solutions for data centers, and ensuring data consistency. You will collaborate with various teams to solve complex issues while mentoring junior members. If you are passionate about optimizing space and enhancing operational efficiency, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in a diverse and inclusive environment, contributing to cutting-edge digital infrastructure solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven years of experience preferred in data management and design.
• Bachelor's degree preferred for this position.

Responsibilities

• Create Cage-Cabinet designs and maximize space utilization.
• Collaborate with teams to resolve power and cooling issues.
• Mentor junior members and maintain data integrity.

Skills

Data Management

Space Planning

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating over 260 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.

Job Summary

The Capacity Engineer Staff is a seasoned experienced professional with a full understanding of data management, design and design drawings for installations within a diverse scope. Collaborates with others to maintain data consistency and integrity.

Responsibilities

Space Planning & Design

• Creates various Cage-Cabinet design options that respond to customer requirements, Equinix Requirements and physical site constraints.
• Prepares notional Cage-Cabinet layouts, area calculations and diagrams for each individual data center.
• Maximizes space utilization to develop the best design solution for the data center and the customer.
• Acts as a mentor to more junior members.

Engineering

• Utilizes knowledge of electrical/mechanical infrastructure to attribute complex Cage-Cabinet designs against data center infrastructure.
• Participates in high-density review cases, seeking opinions of SMEs or local sites where required.
• Performs validation and updating of data center infrastructure data within capacity systems.
• Identifies issues or constraints in infrastructure capacity and prepares notional solutions for review by management.
• Acts as a mentor to more junior members.

Problem Solving

• Solves various complex, cross-functional issues that span multiple groups.
• Uses skills to identify and understand underlying issues.
• Understands when and to whom to escalate, but tries to solve problems first.

Data & Drawing Management

• Works with site operations to address discrepancies with documentation of facility infrastructure and installation of customer cages.
• Ensures that AutoCAD drawings and capacity systems correctly represent existing status of the data center.
• Identifies and makes corrections as necessary.
• Identifies and leads the investigation of data issues without support.
• Produces drawings and space plans for use by Sales, Site Operation and other teams.
• Creates spatial layouts of each customer cage for reviews and installations.
• Prepares drawings and inventory which may be reviewed by manager.
• Creates numbering plans for new sites and prepares drawings files used to track assignments.
• Compiles as-built underground utility drawings as required.

Collaboration

• Collaborates with various teams to identify any power/cooling issues that affect space capacity.
• Answers inventory-related questions from cross-functional departments.
• Engages and gathers input from appropriate stakeholders to reach the right solution for the company and the customer.
• Coordinates with various departments for the monthly reporting of capacity trends, availability and accuracy of records for the site.

Capacity Feasibility & Optimization

• Works with Capacity and/or site engineers to identify power and cooling limitations and discuss potential modifications.
• Acts as the first point of contact for the CFR process to ensure that space is being assigned efficiently.

Qualifications

• Proven years experience preferred.
• Bachelor's preferred.

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.