Senior Data Center Facilities Engineer

Computer Task

Charlotte (NC)

On-site

USD 105,000 - 142,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

CTG is seeking a Facilities Engineer III in Charlotte, NC to support data center and critical electrical infrastructure in a manufacturing environment. The role emphasizes electrical load planning, UPS systems, rack layouts, power distribution, and facility resiliency.

The ideal candidate has five or more years of experience in critical facilities, data centers, or electrical infrastructure with strong troubleshooting and cross-functional collaboration with IT and maintenance teams.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Facilities Management, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Five or more years of experience in critical facilities, data centers, computer rooms, electrical infrastructure, or related environments.
Hands-on experience with UPS systems, battery technologies, electrical distribution, and critical power infrastructure.
Experience with generators, ATS/STS systems, and mission-critical electrical systems.
Experience creating rack elevations, facility layouts, and capacity models.
Knowledge of electrical load planning, power redundancy, and facility capacity management.
Familiarity with data center reliability and tiering concepts.
Experience with DCIM platforms.
Strong troubleshooting, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
Ability to work effectively with IT, engineering, facilities, and maintenance teams, as well as vendors and contractors.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain IT electrical load plans, including kW per rack, amperage, phases, A/B feeds, redundancy, and future capacity.
Coordinate with electrical and facilities teams regarding panels, circuits, breakers, power capacity, and facility expansions.
Engineer and maintain UPS and battery backup systems, including sizing, runtime, monitoring, testing, maintenance, and replacement planning.
Troubleshoot UPS, battery, and critical power issues and develop corrective action plans.
Create and maintain rack elevations, computer room layouts, and as-built documentation.
Validate power, thermal, weight, space, cable-routing, and service-access requirements.
Support technology modernization and resiliency projects by identifying and resolving power, rack space, connectivity, and facility capacity constraints.
Develop and maintain SOPs/MOPs for electrical work, UPS maintenance, rack moves, additions and changes, and room upgrades.
Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and remediation planning for critical power events.
Provide quality assurance and quality control oversight for contractors working on critical computer room infrastructure.
Manage UPS, battery, electrical, monitoring, and facilities vendors.
Coordinate quotes, statements of work, installations, schedules, and infrastructure upgrades.
Collaborate with maintenance teams on generators, automatic transfer switches, static transfer switches, and critical power testing.
Manage and administer the StruxureWare data center infrastructure management platform.
Travel up to 10%, including domestic and international travel.