Principal Operations Engineer – Programs & Reliability

Bulk Infrastructure Group; Oslo; Hybrid; NOK 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance (health, travel)

Annual wellness allowance

Fully paid parental leave

Home internet cost contribution

Job summary

Bulk Infrastructure Group in Norway seeks a Principal Operations Engineer to own programs and engineering standards for reliable data center operations across sites. You will build and lead change management, incident response, risk reviews, and engineering policies, reporting to Engineering Director and driving cross-site improvements.

The role demands deep hands-on experience with MV/LV, UPS, battery, generators, and ISO 55000, plus strong leadership to mentor teams and ensure standards are

Qualifications

• 12+ years in mission critical systems across multiple sites.
• Deep MV/LV architecture knowledge for fault-tolerant topologies.
• Hands-on UPS, battery, generators, and mechanical systems experience.
• Proven track record owning and implementing operational programs.
• Experience as incident commander on major electrical events.
• Excellent English communication; Scandinavian language a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and develop the change management program and training.
• Build the root cause analysis framework our engineers and site teams work to.
• Run the incident response and drill programs, including incident response training.
• Run risk reviews, and set the risk and redundancy targets our sites are measured against.
• Write and maintain the technical policies, procedures and engineering standards for operations, and the direction they point in.
• Teach and mentor engineers across the organization, so the standards live in how people work and not only in a document.
• Go deep when something breaks, past the component that failed and into why the failure scenario was possible at all.
• Perform site deep dives and health checks against design and target risk levels.
• Develop asset strategies covering criticality, maintenance plans and sparing, aligned to ISO 55000.
• Set maintenance and testing regimes, including condition-based maintenance for critical equipment.
• Act as senior technical escalation for site operations during incidents.
• Take incident commander tasks for electrical emergencies.
• Lead postmortems through to permanent remediation rather than a closed ticket.
• Bring operational requirements into design reviews and the new build phase.
• Evaluate and sign off customer capacity requests on time, with the analysis behind each decision documented.
• Develop operational commissioning requirements, and witness FAT and SAT, performance tests, integrated systems testing and black building tests.
• Qualify vendors, approve equipment specifications and give procurement input on replacement and new equipment.

Skills

Mission critical systems

Reliability engineering

Root cause analysis

Incident commander

Uptime concepts

English communication

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

UPS systems

SCADA/EPMS

IEEE 1584 knowledge

Job description

Bulk Infrastructure Group in Norway seeks a Principal Operations Engineer to own programs and engineering standards for reliable data center operations across sites. You will build and lead change management, incident response, risk reviews, and engineering policies, reporting to Engineering Director and driving cross-site improvements.

The role demands deep hands-on experience with MV/LV, UPS, battery, generators, and ISO 55000, plus strong leadership to mentor teams and ensure standards are