Senior Data Center Engineer: Deployment Lead & Design

IDR, Inc.; Buffalo Grove (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IDR, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Center Engineer to join a leading client in Buffalo Grove, IL. You will provide technical leadership for data center deployments, including solution design, build, and validation.

This role requires translating customer requirements into detailed designs, maintaining engineering documentation, and ensuring rack builds, cabling, and connectivity meet approved designs, with a focus on reliability and scalability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, IT, CS, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years designing/configuring enterprise technology environments.
• Experience supporting data center environments (enterprise/colocation/hyperscale).
• Rack-build and physical data center architecture experience.
• Ability to translate requirements into technical designs and validation.
• Strong understanding of rack integration, cabling and physical connectivity.
• Ability to read and work from rack elevations, BOMs, cable matrices, and diagrams.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery to gather requirements, constraints, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Translate customer requirements into detailed, executable technical designs and serve as primary technical contact.
• Develop and maintain solution designs and engineering documentation (rack designs/elevations, BOMs, cabling matrices, patch schedules, diagrams).
• Apply knowledge of physical data center architecture, rack builds, structured cabling, and power/grounding.
• Review rack builds, configurations, test results, and deliverables against approved designs.

Skills

Data center design

Rack builds & integration

Documentation & BOMs

Network diagrams & patching

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Visio

CAD

BOM software

Job description

IDR, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Center Engineer to join a leading client in Buffalo Grove, IL. You will provide technical leadership for data center deployments, including solution design, build, and validation.

This role requires translating customer requirements into detailed designs, maintaining engineering documentation, and ensuring rack builds, cabling, and connectivity meet approved designs, with a focus on reliability and scalability.