Principal Data Center Engineer

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Nashville is seeking an experienced engineer to lead infrastructure design and capacity delivery for Oracle Cloud. You will collaborate with Site Selection, Design & Construction, and DC Engineering Operations to ensure on-time delivery of expansion capacity across OCI datacenters globally.

You will design data center critical infrastructure, drive roadmap concepts with hardware teams, and develop advanced cooling solutions to support AI and high-density workloads.

Responsibilities

• Delivers infrastructure capacity for Oracle Cloud and collaborates with Site Selection, Design & Construction, and DC Engineering Operations to ensure timely expansion capacity in OCI datacenters globally.
• Designs data center critical infrastructure for Oracle Cloud and partners with hardware teams to drive roadmap concepts into OCI fleet.
• Develops and manages advanced cooling solutions and aligns with power and cooling standards across OCI datacenters.
• Performs thermal design reviews and supports iterative testing, simulation, and optimization of thermal management.
• Contributes to research of new materials, tools, and methods to improve data center quality and analytics.

Job description

Key Responsibilities

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-timedelivery of expansion capacity in OCI datacenters globally.
• -Contributes to the delivery of capacity acrosscloud offerings.
• -Collaborates with hardware development teams toenable and automate capacity planning tools, real-time observability, andinfrastructure monitoring services (e.g., through platform characterization).

Infrastructure Design and Development-Infrastructure Development:

• -Designs data center critical infrastructure forOracle Cloud.
• -Collaborates with colocation providers andinternal stakeholders to deliver project design criteria and develop Basis ofDesign.
• -Partners with hardware development teams to drivethe design direction/definition of roadmap, and drive concepts onto roadmap andinto OCI fleet.
• -Collaborates with the hardware development, datacenter design, and construction teams to ensure seamless transition fromarchitecture 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 relatedcomponents, including site and building.
• -Participates in the identification of and monitorsthe need for new tools to improve the quality of data and analytics.
• -Contributes to the evaluation of new power andadvanced cooling technologies that enable the delivery of artificialintelligence (AI) products and other technologies driving up density andperformance in data centers.
• -Participates in influencing the development ofoptimal components and solutions for future OCI fleet requirements by partners(e.g., technology providers and design partners).

Innovation-Patent Generation:

• -Contributes to the identification ofopportunities to generate intellectual property to help strengthen OCI’sposition as a leader in Cloud Computing.

Quality Assurance-Documentation:

• -Contributes to the review and maintenance of datacenter infrastructure site documentation (e.g., floor plans, rack elevations,cable matrices).
• -Participates in reviewing and evaluating Requestsfor Information (RFI), Requests for Proposals (RFP) and RFP, and Requests forQualification (RFQ) submittals.
• -Contributes to the development of OCI data centerfacilities requirements documentation.

Quality Assurance:

• -Evaluates products.
• -Follows quality benchmarks for new sites,regions, and/or deployments.
• -Partners with colocation providers to ensurerequirements are met.

Quality Assurance-Standard Development/Maintenance:

• -Contributes to implementing updates to designstandards and specifications for consistency, maximum system reliability andoptimal facility utilization.
• -Adheres to global data center infrastructurestandards.
• -Follows whitespace design standards.

Thermal Management-Thermal Management Solutions:

• -Contributes to partnership cross-functionally(e.g., data center design, construction, mechanical/electrical engineeringteams) to ensure the provision of optimized, scalable cooling solutions, aswell 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 shapesthroughout data center fleet.

Thermal Management-Thermal Testing, Simulation, and Reviews:

• -Contributes to the review of thermal simulationmodels from partners to identify risks and improve efficiency.

Thermal Management-Thermal Design:

• -Aligns OCI thermal hardware design and datacenter physical infrastructure with minimal oversight.
• -Participates in collaboration withmultifunctional engineering groups to deliver hardware and data center sitesthat meet the associated thermal specifications.
• -Contributes to collaboration with firmware andcontrols engineering teams to create robust thermal control and monitoringsystems.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• -Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks,monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherenceto requirements for a moderately-sized project or initiative. Efficientlydelegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providingtechnical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources ortimelines.

Collaboration & Partnership:

• -Collaborates across the organization to align onexpectations and achieve shared objectives. Leverages understanding of businessleaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet theirneeds. Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverseperspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.

Problem Solving:

• -Identifies and addresses moderately complexissues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identifysolutions in accordance with standard practices. Proactively escalatesunresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potentialsolutions. Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies.

Continuous Learning:

• -Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledgeand skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industrytrends and best practices. Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback andtraining to improve skills. Coaches and mentors junior team members, fosteringcontinuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.

Continuous Improvement:

• -Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/orcollaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase theefficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows acrossteams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders. Solicits feedback fromothers on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continuedimprovement.

Performance and Development:

• -Contributes to the talent development pipeline byparticipating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providinghiring recommendations.