Data Center Controls Engineer: PLC/SCADA & Ignition

STACK Infrastructure US; Santa Teresa (NM); On-site; USD 160,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K

Flexible spending accounts

Cell phone subsidy

Job summary

STACK is seeking a seasoned Controls Engineer to join the Technical Operations team in Santa Teresa, NM. You will support construction, operation, and maintenance of BMS and EPMS systems across a large data center campus.

You will work with site operations, engineering, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure reliable and secure controls performance, including Ignition SCADA, PLCs, ERP data interfaces, and MQTT messaging.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in Engineering/Controls/CS.
• 5+ years in building automation, industrial controls, SCADA, PLCs, EPMS, or critical facility control systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of mechanical, electrical, controls and monitoring architectures including chillers and campus-level integration.
• Assist the implementation, commissioning, operation and optimization of PLC-based controls across critical infrastructure.
• Maintain and troubleshoot Ignition front-end systems: screens, tags, alarms, historian, UI, reporting.
• Support MQTT-based data movement and edge/enterprise messaging infrastructure.
• Work with databases for controls, monitoring, alarming, reporting and analytics workflows.
• Collaborate with site operations to troubleshoot controls events and perform root-cause analyses.
• Support validation of power quality meters and electrical system diagnostics.
• Coordinate with commissioning teams to verify performance, sequencing, and turnover documentation.
• Ensure proper metering, trending and data collection for reporting and energy optimization.
• Provide training to site personnel on controls system functionality and troubleshooting.

Skills

PLC troubleshooting

SCADA expertise

MQTT/OPC UA integration

OT cybersecurity basics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Controls, Computer Science

Tools

Ignition SCADA

Allen-Bradley PLCs

PostgreSQL

Job description

STACK is seeking a seasoned Controls Engineer to join the Technical Operations team in Santa Teresa, NM. You will support construction, operation, and maintenance of BMS and EPMS systems across a large data center campus.

You will work with site operations, engineering, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure reliable and secure controls performance, including Ignition SCADA, PLCs, ERP data interfaces, and MQTT messaging.