Data Center Project Engineer - Design, Build & Delivery

Computacenter (UK) Ltd; Livermore (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Computacenter (UK) Ltd in the United States, California, Livermore seeks a Project Engineer to provide end-to-end technical leadership for customer deployments. You will translate customer requirements into executable designs and oversee build, validation, and technical closure across the deployment lifecycle.

The role focuses on project delivery rather than pre-sales, collaborating with customers, project leadership, engineering teams, and integration facilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, information technology, computer science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Five or more years of experience designing, configuring, implementing, or supporting enterprise technology environments.
• Demonstrated experience translating customer requirements into detailed technical designs and supporting solutions through build, validation, and acceptance.
• Relevant technical certifications (CCNP, CCDP, JNCIP) are preferred.
• Must be legally eligible to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery to gather, validate, and document customer requirements, constraints, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Serve as the primary technical contact throughout the deployment lifecycle, translating requirements into executable designs.
• Communicate design decisions, risks, and trade-offs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders and lead resolution of technical issues.
• Develop and maintain solution designs, configuration specifications, implementation workbooks, rack designs, and related engineering documentation.
• Maintain approved designs within the designated design and configuration-management platform, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with engineering standards.
• Secure customer approval and release completed designs to the integration facility for build and testing.
• Evaluate design changes and ensure approved updates are reflected in applicable documentation and systems.
• Provide technical direction to teams assembling, configuring, and testing customer solutions.
• Resolve design discrepancies, omissions, and technical questions identified during build and integration.
• Participate in first-article builds, proofs of concept, and validation reviews as required.
• Review build records, configuration snapshots, and test results, approving completed configurations before they advance.
• Lead technical closure with the customer, validating completed work against approved requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Obtain customer technical signoff and ensure final documentation accurately reflects the delivered solution.
• Provide project leadership with timely visibility into technical status, risks, decisions, and recommendations.
• Provide technical input for changes or follow-on work within existing customer accounts.
• Lead technical contributors through influence, establishing direction, clarifying expectations, and driving accountability without direct reporting authority.
• Partner with project management, field engineering, consulting, integration centers, and other delivery functions to maintain alignment throughout deployment.
• Promote disciplined engineering, documentation, and continuous improvement practices.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Technical leadership

Customer communication

Documentation

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/IT/CS

Tools

CCNP

CCDP

JNCIP

Job description

Computacenter (UK) Ltd in the United States, California, Livermore seeks a Project Engineer to provide end-to-end technical leadership for customer deployments. You will translate customer requirements into executable designs and oversee build, validation, and technical closure across the deployment lifecycle.

The role focuses on project delivery rather than pre-sales, collaborating with customers, project leadership, engineering teams, and integration facilities.