Data Center Controls Engineer - Monitoring & Automation

Equinix; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Equinix in Manchester is seeking an Operations Controls Engineer to ensure the performance, visibility and reliability of our critical data centre infrastructure. You’ll work across Manchester sites with engineering and operations teams to support monitoring, automation and controls systems aligned to high standards.

You will configure and validate assets in BMS and DCIM platforms, support power monitoring in BCM systems, and help optimise PUE/WUE metrics.

Qualifications

• Experience in controls engineering for critical facilities.
• Ability to interpret Sequences of Operation and electrical schematics.
• Experience with data collection and industrial communication protocols.
• Strong communication across technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Configure, onboard and validate assets, alarms and monitoring points in BMS/DCIM.
• Support power circuit monitoring within BCM systems.
• Validate and optimise PUE/WUE metrics.
• Investigate and resolve data quality and integration issues across monitoring platforms.
• Support controls integrations, mapping, alarming strategies and data flows.
• Participate in commissioning, startup and testing activities for deployments.
• Collaborate with vendors, consultants and site teams to deliver projects.
• Develop technical documentation and implementation standards.

Skills

Strong troubleshooting

Schneider Electric PLCs

AVEVA System Platform

BACnet Modbus OPC

Controls engineering

Data centre awareness

IP networking basics

Stakeholder management

Tools

AVEVA System Platform

Kepware

Matrikon

Tridium / Niagara

Job description

Equinix in Manchester is seeking an Operations Controls Engineer to ensure the performance, visibility and reliability of our critical data centre infrastructure. You’ll work across Manchester sites with engineering and operations teams to support monitoring, automation and controls systems aligned to high standards.

You will configure and validate assets in BMS and DCIM platforms, support power monitoring in BCM systems, and help optimise PUE/WUE metrics.