Senior Associate DC Engineer (58409)

Reeracoen Recruitment; Sepang; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency seeks a professional for a role focused on designing and maintaining infrastructure systems within high-reliability data centers. Candidates should hold a Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical engineering and possess 3-5 years of relevant experience in critical facility operations. Responsibilities include ensuring optimal performance of systems, analyzing data for improvements, and providing technical support during issues. Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills are essential. This role is based in Selangor, Malaysia.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in critical facility/datacentre technical operations.
• Relevant vendor certifications and additional beneficial certifications.
• Demonstrated good analytical skills for data analysis and presentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, plan, install, and maintain data center infrastructure systems.
• Analyze current operations and recommend maintenance methods.
• Provide technical support during critical system failures.

Skills

Technical knowledge of critical infrastructure

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical engineering

Tools

Monitoring and control systems

Job description

Responsibilities

• Designs, plans, installs, and maintains mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and other infrastructure systems in mission‑critical, high‑risk and high‑reliability data center environments.
• Has proficient understanding of sensitive facility components that may be impacted by failures or malfunctions of infrastructure systems.
• Understands potential equipment failures and provides full technical support to Facility Operations teams in the event of a critical system failure.
• Analyzes current operating conditions and recommends new preventative and proactive methods for maintaining and monitoring facilities systems.
• Evaluates facility standards and practices to improve maintenance procedures and ensure optimal operational efficiency.
• Complies with organizational and governmental safety standards.
• Coordinates response to emergency situations and ensures that corrective measures are rapid and thorough.
• Follows operational processes and ensures services and infrastructure meet operational service level agreements (SLAs).
• Performs facility system component upgrades as required to ensure reliability and combat obsolescence.
• Designs maintenance programs for Electrical and Mechanical systems to minimize maintenance complexity and reduce maintenance downtime.
• Validates maintenance performance by analysing trends, operational history, maintenance data, and utilisation metrics.
• Provides non‑routine technical support for data center operations, including troubleshooting software and hardware failures.
• Participates in the development of datacentre infrastructure projects.
• Performs any other duties as required by the Facility Operations management team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical engineering from an accredited university or college or equivalent field experience to successfully perform essential job functions.
• 3-5 years of experience in critical facility /datacentre technical operations and maintenance or engineering design of critical systems.
• Relevant vendor certifications.
• Additional beneficial certifications such as AOS, ATD, CDFOM, CDCDP, etc.
• Seasoned knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and life safety monitoring and control systems typically used in critical environments.
• Seasoned knowledge of critical facilities/datacentre operations and maintenance.
• Seasoned proficiency of sensitive facility components that may be impacted by failures or malfunctions of infrastructure systems.
• Demonstrates good analytical skills, having an ability to analyse, refine, summarize, and clearly present data and information.

Knowledge, Skills & Atributes

• Maintain a strong technical knowledge of the critical infrastructure design intent, sequence of operations, fault conditions and associated corrective action.
• Ability to collect and analyse system performance data to identify issues and improve facility systems.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical information to non‑technical people.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Good analytical and problem‑solving skills to troubleshoot issues and devise efficient solutions.
• Developing project management skills.