Data Center Infrastructure Design Engineer — Onsite Charlotte

TEKsystems; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Data Center Infrastructure Design Engineer in Charlotte, NC to design, optimize, and expand mission‑critical data center infrastructure including electrical distribution, mechanical cooling, and liquid cooling systems.

The role focuses on long‑term capacity planning and resiliency, reviewing designs, and supporting modernization projects. This is a hybrid, contract position based out of Charlotte, NC, with onsite work required three days a week.

Qualifications

• Experience designing data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure.
• Proven capacity planning for power, cooling, and space.
• Ability to review drawings and support commissioning.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize mission‑critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure supporting data center operations.
• Develop long‑term power, cooling, and space capacity plans to support future growth and infrastructure demand.
• Support data center expansion, upgrade, retrofit, and modernization initiatives.
• Evaluate and improve infrastructure resiliency, redundancy, and operational efficiency.
• Design and support liquid cooling solutions and associated piping and cooling infrastructure within data center environments.
• Review engineering drawings, design packages, one‑line diagrams, specifications, and technical documentation.
• Perform infrastructure analysis to identify risks, constraints, and opportunities for optimization.
• Support commissioning, integrated systems testing, and infrastructure validation efforts.
• Conduct root cause analysis of critical infrastructure issues and develop corrective engineering solutions.
• Partner with facilities engineering, construction teams, utilities, vendors, commissioning teams, and critical systems stakeholders throughout project lifecycles.
• Utilize operational data, telemetry, and engineering metrics to improve infrastructure performance, reliability, and efficiency.

Skills

Data center

Data center migration

Infrastructure

HVAC

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Data Center Infrastructure Design Engineer in Charlotte, NC to design, optimize, and expand mission‑critical data center infrastructure including electrical distribution, mechanical cooling, and liquid cooling systems.

The role focuses on long‑term capacity planning and resiliency, reviewing designs, and supporting modernization projects. This is a hybrid, contract position based out of Charlotte, NC, with onsite work required three days a week.