Data Center Engineer

Insight Global; United States; On-site; USD 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking aRack Deployment Lead Data Center Engineer for onsite work in Saline, Michigan. This 6-month contract-to-hire role will own rack deployment execution across large-scale data center projects, coordinating with construction, facilities, engineering, and vendors to meet milestones.

Responsibilities include readiness, scheduling, installation, energization prep, issue resolution, and KPI reporting, with relocation assistance up to $8000 for out-of-state candidates and a pay

Qualifications

• 4+ years of rack deployment or related data center deployment experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead rack deployment planning and execution from readiness through installation, validation, energization preparation, and turnover.
• Own building-level schedules, milestone tracking, action registers, blocker logs, risk escalation, and deployment status reporting.
• Validate rack deployment prerequisites, including space readiness, access, cabinet layouts, pathway readiness, materials, tooling, safety requirements, network readiness, and site support needs.
• Coordinate across construction, data center facilities operations, engineering, commissioning, network, compute, logistics, security, vendors, and field teams to remove blockers and maintain deployment velocity.
• Track KPIs such as schedule adherence, deployment velocity, installation quality, first-pass success, rework trends, blocker aging, access readiness, and handoff readiness.

Skills

Rack deployment

Data center deployment

Field installation

Infrastructure delivery

Construction coordination

Logistics execution

Power & cooling readiness

LOTO/LDL safety

Tools

Smartsheet

Primavera

MS Project

Jira

ServiceNow

CMMS

DCIM

Asset management systems

Inventory systems

Dashboarding tools

Job description

*Role is onsite in Saline, Michigan. Relocation up to $8000 is provided for out of state candidates*

*Role pays $55 to $65 an hour with optional benefits*

*Role is a 6-month contract to hire*

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Rack Deployment Lead Data Center Engineer will own building- and campus-level rack deployment execution for large-scale data center projects, driving day-to-day readiness, schedule coordination, installation execution, energization preparation, issue resolution, KPI reporting, and handoff activities. This person will operate as the main execution lead across rack deployment workstreams, coordinating with construction, commissioning, facilities operations, engineering, network, compute, logistics, security, vendors, and installation teams to keep deployments aligned to milestone dates and capacity commitments. Relocation assistance will be provided for selected out-of-market individuals.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead rack deployment planning and execution from readiness through installation, validation, energization preparation, and turnover.
• Own building-level schedules, milestone tracking, action registers, blocker logs, risk escalation, and deployment status reporting.
• Validate rack deployment prerequisites, including space readiness, access, cabinet layouts, pathway readiness, materials, tooling, safety requirements, network readiness, and site support needs.
• Coordinate across construction, data center facilities operations, engineering, commissioning, network, compute, logistics, security, vendors, and field teams to remove blockers and maintain deployment velocity.
• Track KPIs such as schedule adherence, deployment velocity, installation quality, first-pass success, rework trends, blocker aging, access readiness, and handoff readiness.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 4+ years of experience in rack deployment, data center deployment, technical field installation, infrastructure delivery, construction coordination, critical facilities operations, logistics execution, or similarly complex technical environments.
• Understanding of liquid-cooled or air-cooled server rack environments. Specifically related to heat removal process, system installation, and maintenance.
• Strong understanding of data center deployment dependencies, including construction completion, power and cooling readiness, commissioning milestones, access controls, security requirements, materials readiness, logistics, network deployment, and operational handoff.
• Knowledge of operations and maintenance procedures for electrical and mechanical components within a data hall - including UPS systems, PDU, switchgear, CRAC and CRAH units, pumps, valves, cooling towers, etc.
• Understanding of LOTO (lock out tag out) and LDL (live/dead-live) as it relates to instrumentation testing and maintenance.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience with hyperscale data centers, cloud infrastructure, colocation campuses, telecom environments, high-density compute deployments, or high-availability infrastructure programs.
• Familiarity with Smartsheet, Primavera, MS Project, Jira, ServiceNow, CMMS, DCIM, asset management systems, inventory systems, or dashboarding tools.