Data Center Facility Engineer

Asiacom Americas Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Asiacom Americas Inc. is seeking a Data Center Facility Engineer to act as a hands-on technical resource for maintaining and operating electrical, mechanical, and HVAC equipment in data centers.

The role emphasizes reliability and availability to meet service levels and requires working with standby generators, switchgear, UPS, PDU, and related systems. You will troubleshoot and maintain critical infrastructure, engage in improvement projects, and coordinate with third-party vendors to meet

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, electrical or mechanical discipline or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all aspects of the data center's critical physical infrastructure.
• Engage in improvement projects across support teams from conception to completion.
• Coordinate daily with third-party vendors ensuring adherence to SLAs.
• Routinely operate as the afterhours on-call Data Center Facility Manager for the region.

Skills

Data Center experience

Electrical systems knowledge

Mechanical systems knowledge

English and Chinese Mandarin fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering (electrical or mechanical)

Job description

We are seeking an energetic Data Center Facility Engineer to serve as a technical resource in data centers. The position will help ensure overall availability and reliability to meet or exceed defined service levels of data center operations. The Data Center Facility Engineer is responsible for the overall operation and maintenance of all electrical, mechanical, and HVAC equipment within the data center.

This role acts as front line when it comes to hands-on electrical and mechanical equipment troubleshooting. They will maintain, operate, and troubleshoot mission-critical data center facility equipment including electrical support equipment such as stand‑by diesel generators and related fuel systems, 3 phase electrical systems that include but not limited to switchgear, UPS units, PDUs, and wet cell batteries and associated systems. Additional support equipment is included in the scope of the role which includes fire suppression systems, building automation systems, and general facilities equipment.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all aspects of the data center's critical physical infrastructure. Ensure that all work performed within the space is done to high quality and without impact to internal/external customers.
• Engage in improvement projects, often requiring reaching out to a variety of support teams and drive them from conception to completion.
• Coordinates daily with a multitude of third-party vendors ensuring adherence to contracted SLAs
• Routinely operate as the afterhours on-call Data Center Facility Manager for the data centers in the region. This will include responding to any issues within the data centers and managing the investigation, mitigation, and recovery of the issue(s).

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, electrical or mechanical discipline or equivalent work experience.
• Preferred Qualifications.
• Data Center experience.
• 2+ years of experience working in data centers with an emphasis on building and equipment operation.
• Understanding of the electrical and mechanical systems involved in critical data center operations such as: feeders, transformers, generators, switchgear, UPS systems, ATS units, PDU units。
• Must be fluent in English and Chinese Mandarin.