Principal BMS & Controls Engineer (Data Centre)

Iron Mountain Incorporated

United States

Remote

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Remote contract

37.5 hours/week

Competitive compensation

PTO & holidays

Flexible work options

Health & retirement plans

Learning & growth

Job summary

Iron Mountain Incorporated is seeking an experienced regional engineering leader to set technical direction for BMS, EPMS, PLCs, OT security, and DCIM integrations across large data centres.

The role emphasizes governance, standards, and cross-functional collaboration with executive leadership and vendors to drive long-term technology roadmaps and reliability.

Qualifications

15+ years of relevant experience in large-scale data centres or mission-critical environments.
Strong knowledge of data centre BMS, EPMS, plant PLC sequencing, OT cybersecurity, and DCIM architectures.
Proven ability to set regional technical governance and resolve high-impact challenges.

Responsibilities

Set regional technical direction for BMS, EPMS, plant PLCs, OT, and DCIM integrations.
Govern standards and architecture across new builds, expansions, and upgrades.
Resolve high-impact engineering decisions and root-cause investigations.

Skills

15+ years experience

Data centre leadership

OT cybersecurity

DCIM architectures

Stakeholder leadership

Education

Engineering degree

Professional Engineer license

Job description

We provide expert, sustainable solutions in records and information management, digital transformation services, data centers, asset lifecycle management, and fine art storage, handling, and logistics. We proudly partner every day with our 225,000 customers around the world to preserve their invaluable artifacts, extract more from their inventory, and protect their data privacy in innovative and socially responsible ways. Are you curious about being part of our growth stor y while evolving your skills in a culture that will welcome your unique contributions? If so, let's start the conversation.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities)

In this role, you will:

Set regional technical direction: Define design principles, basis-of-design requirements, and performance outcomes for BMS, EPMS, plant PLCs, operational technology (OT), and DCIM integrations.
Govern standards and architecture: Maintain discipline assurance frameworks, approved specifications, and technical standards across new builds, customer expansions, and operational upgrades.
Resolve systemic technical risk: Act as the final authority on precedent-setting or high-impact engineering decisions, deviations, and root-cause reliability investigations.
Drive product and vendor strategy: Partner with Supply Chain and strategic equipment manufacturers to establish technical requirements for owner-furnished controls equipment.
Foster engineering capability: Cultivate a regional community of practice, mentoring senior engineering colleagues and advising executive leadership on long-term technology roadmaps.

Qualifications & Requirements

15+ years of relevant experience, including demonstrated technical leadership across large-scale data centres or complex mission-critical environments.
Strong knowledge of data centre BMS, EPMS, plant PLC sequencing, OT cybersecurity, and DCIM architectures.
Proven ability to set regional technical governance, reconcile global requirements with local codes, and resolve ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges.
Exceptional stakeholder leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams, equipment vendors, and executive leadership without formal authority.
University degree in Controls, Automation, Electrical, Mechanical, Systems Engineering, or equivalent practical experience (Professional Engineering license or chartership strongly preferred). Iron Mountain is a global leader in storage and information management services trusted by more than 225,000 organizations in 60 countries. We safeguard billions of our customers' assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and invaluable cultural and historic artifacts. Take a look at our history here.
Iron Mountain helps lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable digital and sustainable solutions, whether in information management, digital transformation, secure storage and destruction, data center operations, cloud services, or art storage and logistics. Please see our Values and Code of Ethics for a look at our principles and aspirations in elevating the power of our work together.

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