Principal Engineering Critical Environment Consultant

Oracle Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation is seeking a highly skilled engineer to manage critical environment maintenance and data center operations. You will lead incident management, site reviews, and design oversight for electrical and mechanical infrastructure, ensuring reliability and compliance across Oracle’s data centers.

Responsibilities include coordinating with various teams, reviewing designs, and driving improvements in operational efficiency. Travel is typically around 25% for on-site work.

Qualifications

• Experience with critical environment maintenance in data centers.
• Strong understanding of electrical and mechanical systems in mission‑critical facilities.
• Ability to perform root cause analyses and CAPAs.

Responsibilities

• Review site designs and proposed fit-outs for data centers.
• Develop digitized electrical models and deployment plans.
• Coordinate with internal/external teams to implement improvements.
• Support and validate on-site data center operations for electrical infrastructure.
• Travel required around 25%.

Skills

Electrical systems

Mechanical systems

Root cause analysis

Incident management

Tools

CFD analyses

Job description

Manages ongoing critical environment maintenance by completing standard diagnostics and repairs and resolving issues. Manages incidents impacting services and conducts root cause analysis to mitigate recurrence and improve system resilience. Conducts data center build site reviews and assessments in collaboration with other teams to evaluate suitability for data center builds. Supports and validates on-site data centers operations in relation to the electrical or mechanical infrastructure. Coordinates with internal and external project team members in delivering specific aspects of data centers or part-data centers for Oracle.

Internal Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Critical Environment Maintenance Support

• Manages the ongoing critical environment maintenance support for all service lines to pre-defined SLAs to ensure service uptime is maintained to the highest standards and that faults are dealt with promptly.
• Employs practical operating knowledge of engineering systems, including standard diagnostics and repairs.
• Applies knowledge of Oracle processes, procedures, and industry standards to resolve routine issues.
• Offers suggestions for system-level enhancements to reduce potential problems.
• Contributes to testing the suitability of components or action plans for deployments.

Incident Management and Operation Improvement

• Manages incidents that impact OCI services, proactively addressing root causes in a timely manner.
• Collaborates with design, construction, commissioning, facility engineering, data center operations, health and safety, and compliance teams to integrate new electrical distribution systems to existing data center.
• Empowers operational optimization and efficiency improvement initiatives.
• Ensures alignment of own work with safe working practices.
• Provides expertise during post-incident reviews by conducting root cause analyses, documenting lessons learned, and developing Corrective and Preventive Action Plans (CAPAs) to mitigate recurrence and improve system resilience.

Site Selection and Build

• Conducts site reviews and assessments in collaboration with other teams to evaluate suitability for data center builds, gathering and analyzing technical, environmental, and infrastructure data to inform decision-making.
• Prepares technical reports to document findings, support recommendations, and communicate results to stakeholders.
• Participates in design reviews and oversees commissioning activities in collaboration with other teams, reviewing data to ensure alignment with engineering standards and project requirements.
• Reviews mechanical simulations (e.g., Computational Fluid Dynamics [CFD] analyses) to assess airflow and thermal performance, identifying design adjustments to improve system efficiency, reliability, and performance.

Data Center Operations Management

• Supports and validates on-site data centers operations in relation to the electrical or mechanical infrastructure.
• Serves as an electrical or mechanical subject matter expert (SME) for on-site operations related to mission critical electrical systems, operations, and functionality.
• Partners with the colocation providers' engineering teams to ensure electrical or mechanical systems are adequately designed, specified, and installed to deliver robust operation for Oracle.
• Adheres to developed standards and policy through the review of documentation, participates in commissioning activities, design summits, and data center commissioning or reviews.
• Reviews critical impacting changes and represents engineering in change advisory board (CAB) meetings.

Engineering Design, Leadership, and Governance

• Collaborates with senior team members and supports a project or other design and engineering initiatives.
• Provides engineering insight to ensure project or other design initiatives align with company expectations.
• Coordinates with internal and external project team members in delivering specific aspects of data centers or part-data centers for Oracle.
• Provides input for effective contract administration, including supporting the generation and review of contracts, change orders, cost forecasts, and other pertinent documents.
• Contributes to the development of policy documents by collaborating with team members.
• Contributes to the creation and upkeep of best-in-class policies and procedures, participating in their review as necessary.
• Prepares technical reports to document findings, communicate progress, and support project or design decision-making.

Training and Knowledge Sharing

• Contributes to the identification of training programs for newer members of the team.
• Acts as a subject matter expert with many standard systems and trains others on the team.

Description

• Demonstrated desire and ability to learn, grow, and develop new skills.
• Oversee tenant improvement work associated with white space fit-outs in new data center spaces.
• Promote and reinforce a culture of safety, security, and compliance across all data center activities.
• Maintain a strong understanding of data center Electrical design and operational functionality.
• Partner with design, construction, and commissioning teams to integrate new Electrical systems into existing data centers.
• Support and validate on-site data center operations related to Electrical infrastructure.
• Serve as the Electrical SME for mission critical Electrical systems, operations, and performance.
• Create digitized Electrical distribution templates to support rack placement planning.
• Drive operational optimization and efficiency improvement initiatives.
• Travel requirement: (typically ~25%).

Responsibilities

• Review new sites and proposed fit out designs.
• Ensure Electrical plans are accurate and failover designs meet compliance requirements.
• Develop digitized Electrical models.
• Support supplier led white space fit-out activities.
• Ensure documentation is captured, stored, referenced, and shared with field engineering and operations teams.
• Support engineering investigations into large-scale events.
• Provide support to field engineering teams.

External Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Critical Environment Maintenance Support

• Manages the ongoing critical environment maintenance support for all service lines to pre-defined SLAs to ensure service uptime is maintained to the highest standards and that faults are dealt with promptly.
• Employs practical operating knowledge of engineering systems, including standard diagnostics and repairs.
• Applies knowledge of Oracle processes, procedures, and industry standards to resolve routine issues.
• Offers suggestions for system-level enhancements to reduce potential problems.
• Contributes to testing the suitability of components or action plans for deployments.

Incident Management and Operation Improvement

• Manages incidents that impact OCI services, proactively addressing root causes in a timely manner.
• Collaborates with design, construction, commissioning, facility engineering, data center operations, health and safety, and compliance teams to integrate new electrical distribution systems to existing data center.
• Empowers operational optimization and efficiency improvement initiatives.
• Ensures alignment of own work with safe working practices.
• Provides expertise during post-incident reviews by conducting root cause analyses, documenting lessons learned, and developing Corrective and Preventive Action Plans (CAPAs) to mitigate recurrence and improve system resilience.

Site Selection and Build

• Conducts site reviews and assessments in collaboration with other teams to evaluate suitability for data center builds, gathering and analyzing technical, environmental, and infrastructure data to inform decision-making.
• Prepares technical reports to document findings, support recommendations, and communicate results to stakeholders.
• Participates in design reviews and oversees commissioning activities in collaboration with other teams, reviewing data to ensure alignment with engineering standards and project requirements.
• Reviews mechanical simulations (e.g., Computational Fluid Dynamics [CFD] analyses) to assess airflow and thermal performance, identifying design adjustments to improve system efficiency, reliability, and performance.

Data Center Operations Management

• Supports and validates on-site data centers operations in relation to the electrical or mechanical infrastructure.
• Serves as an electrical or mechanical subject matter expert (SME) for on-site operations related to mission critical electrical systems, operations, and functionality.
• Partners with the colocation providers' engineering teams to ensure electrical or mechanical systems are adequately designed, specified, and installed to deliver robust operation for Oracle.
• Adheres to developed standards and policy through the review of documentation, participates in commissioning activities, design summits, and data center commissioning or reviews.
• Reviews critical impacting changes and represents engineering in change advisory board (CAB) meetings.

Engineering Design, Leadership, and Governance

• Collaborates with senior team members and supports a project or other design and engineering initiatives.
• Provides engineering insight to ensure project or other design initiatives align with company expectations.
• Coordinates with internal and external project team members in delivering specific aspects of data centers or part-data centers for Oracle.
• Provides input for effective contract administration, including supporting the generation and review of contracts, change orders, cost forecasts, and other pertinent documents.
• Contributes to the development of policy documents by collaborating with team members.
• Contributes to the creation and upkeep of best-in-class policies and procedures, participating in their review as necessary.
• Prepares technical reports to document findings, communicate progress, and support project or design decision-making.

Training and Knowledge Sharing

• Contributes to the identification of training programs for newer members of the team.
• Acts as a subject matter expert with many standard systems and trains others on the team.

Description

• Demonstrated desire and ability to learn, grow, and develop new skills.
• Oversee tenant improvement work associated with white space fit-outs in new data center spaces.
• Promote and reinforce a culture of safety, security, and compliance across all data center activities.
• Maintain a strong understanding of data center Electrical design and operational functionality.
• Partner with design, construction, and commissioning teams to integrate new Electrical systems into existing data centers.
• Support and validate on-site data center operations related to Electrical infrastructure.
• Serve as the Electrical SME for mission critical Electrical systems, operations, and performance.
• Create digitized Electrical distribution templates to support rack placement planning.
• Drive operational optimization and efficiency improvement initiatives.
• Travel requirement: (typically ~25%).

Responsibilities

• Review new sites and proposed fit out designs.
• Ensure Electrical plans are accurate and failover designs meet compliance requirements.
• Develop digitized Electrical models.
• Support supplier led white space fit-out activities.
• Ensure documentation is captured, stored, referenced, and shared with field engineering and operations teams.
• Support engineering investigations into large-scale events.
• Provide support to field engineering teams.