Principal Data Center Engineer

Oracle; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking an Infrastructure Design and Development professional to evaluate data center sites and design power, cooling, and airflow for Oracle Cloud infrastructure. This role involves collaboration across Site Selection, Design & Construction, and DC Operations to ensure timely delivery of expansion capacity in OCI datacenters globally.

The ideal candidate contributes to capacity planning, supports tooling for observability, and partners with hardware teams to shape roadmaps and drive

Qualifications

• Evaluates data center sites against Oracle’s requirements.
• Assesses cooling, air flow and power design.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams.
• Researches new data center designs and materials.

Responsibilities

• Delivers capacity for Oracle Cloud infrastructure.
• Partners with Site Selection, Design & Construction, and DC Engineering to ensure on-time expansion in OCI datacenters.
• Designs data center critical infrastructure for Oracle Cloud.
• Collaborates with hardware teams to drive roadmap concepts into OCI fleet.
• Develops and manages advanced cooling solutions and thermal design.

Job description

Job Description

Evaluates scoped sites against Oracle’s requirements for data centers. Collaborates with multidisciplinary internal and external teams to design the power, cooling, and air flow designs for the data center infrastructure. Conducts failure analyses and responds to emergencies as needed. Assesses data center infrastructure and evaluate plans provided by the Build and Engineering Services (BES) team. Determines cooling requirements and architectural tradeoffs to ensure the white space design meets their requirements to manage variables such as heat, humidity, and air flow. Researches innovative new data center designs, materials, and/or methods.

Responsibilities

KeyResponsibilities

Infrastructure Design and Development-Capacity Delivery:

• Delivers infrastructure capacity for Oracle Cloud.

• Contributes to collaboration with Site Selection,

Design & Construction, and DC Engineering Operations to ensure on-time

delivery of expansion capacity in OCI datacenters globally.

• Contributes to the delivery of capacity across

cloud offerings.

• Collaborates with hardware development teams to

enable and automate capacity planning tools, real-time observability, and

infrastructure monitoring services (e.g., through platform characterization).

Infrastructure Design and Development-Infrastructure Development:

• Designs data center critical infrastructure for

Oracle Cloud.

• Collaborates with colocation providers and

internal stakeholders to deliver project design criteria and develop Basis of

Design.

• Partners with hardware development teams to drive

the design direction/definition of roadmap, and drive concepts onto roadmap and

into OCI fleet.

• Collaborates with the hardware development, data

center design, and construction teams to ensure seamless transition from

architecture to implementation.

• Develops and manages advanced cooling solutions.

Innovation:

• Contributes to the research of new designs,

materials, and construction methods for data center equipment and related

components, including site and building.

• Participates in the identification of and monitors

the need for new tools to improve the quality of data and analytics.

• Contributes to the evaluation of new power and

advanced cooling technologies that enable the delivery of artificial

intelligence (AI) products and other technologies driving up density and

performance in data centers.

• Participates in influencing the development of

optimal components and solutions for future OCI fleet requirements by partners

(e.g., technology providers and design partners).

Innovation-Patent Generation:

• Contributes to the identification of

opportunities to generate intellectual property to help strengthen OCI’s

position as a leader in Cloud Computing.

Quality Assurance-Documentation:

• Contributes to the review and maintenance of data

center infrastructure site documentation (e.g., floor plans, rack elevations,

cable matrices).

• Participates in reviewing and evaluating Requests

for Information (RFI), Requests for Proposals (RFP) and RFP, and Requests for

Qualification (RFQ) submittals.

• Contributes to the development of OCI data center

facilities requirements documentation.

Quality Assurance:

• Evaluates products.

• Follows quality benchmarks for new sites,

regions, and/or deployments.

• Partners with colocation providers to ensure

requirements are met.

Quality Assurance-Standard Development/Maintenance:

• Contributes to implementing updates to design

standards and specifications for consistency, maximum system reliability and

optimal facility utilization.

• Adheres to global data center infrastructure

standards.

• Follows whitespace design standards.

Thermal Management-Thermal Management Solutions:

• Contributes to partnership cross-functionally

(e.g., data center design, construction, mechanical/electrical engineering

teams) to ensure the provision of optimized, scalable cooling solutions, as

well as thermal solutions optimized for the entire stack.

• Aligns with power and cooling standards (e.g.,

input voltage, rack density, heat rejection, power consumption) for OCI shapes

throughout data center fleet.

Thermal Management-Thermal Testing, Simulation, and Reviews:

• Contributes to the review of thermal simulation

models from partners to identify risks and improve efficiency.

Thermal Management-Thermal Design:

• Aligns OCI thermal hardware design and data

center physical infrastructure with minimal oversight.

• Participates in collaboration with

multifunctional engineering groups to deliver hardware and data center sites

that meet the associated thermal specifications.

• Contributes to collaboration with firmware and

controls engineering teams to create robust thermal control and monitoring

systems.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks,

monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence

to requirements for a moderately-sized project or initiative. Efficiently

delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing

technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or

timelines.

Collaboration & Partnership:

• Collaborates across the organization to align on

expectations and achieve shared objectives. Leverages understanding of business

leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their

needs. Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse

perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.

Problem Solving:

• Identifies and addresses moderately complex

issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify

solutions in accordance with standard practices. Proactively escalates

unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential

solutions. Reviews, contributes to, and document problem solving strategies.

Continuous Learning:

• Pursues learning opportunities to expand