Senior Data Center Platform Engineer

Pacific Life

Newport Beach (CA)

On-site

USD 168,000 - 205,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision and Wellbeing

Paid Time Off and holidays

Financial Planning Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Adoption Assistance Program

Competitive 401k with company match

Job summary

Pacific Life in Newport Beach, CA seeks a Sr. Infrastructure Platform Engineer - Data Center to lead day-to-day data center operations, ensure reliability, and optimize physical infrastructure across global locations.

The role emphasizes scalable design, automation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. You will design, deploy, and maintain data center tooling, racks, and power/cooling systems while mentoring junior engineers and staying current with industry practices.

Qualifications

BS degree in Computer Science or related field.
8+ years of experience in Data Center Operations across multiple locations.
Expertise in data center infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, power/cooling, virtualization.
Experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, SolarWinds, Grafana.
Strong problem-solving, organizational, and documentation skills.
Ability to work independently and as part of a global team.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, maintain, and monitor global data center environments to ensure physical infrastructure remains secure, available, reliable, and performant.
Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable IT infrastructure solutions across multiple regions.
Deploy, and manage scalable and secure Windows Server-based systems across data centers and cloud environments in multiple regions globally.
Design, deploy, and maintain rack and cabinet layouts, structured cabling, labeling standards, rack elevations, equipment placement, and cable management across multiple regions.
Install, move, and decommission data center hardware, including rack-and-stack activities, physical infrastructure project support, and end-of-life clean-up.
Provide escalation support for complex rack, cabling, power, cooling, and environmental issues, coordinating with operations, facilities, security, and vendor partners to resolve incidents and support scheduled maintenance.
Provide escalation support for complex server issues, collaborating with operations and support teams to resolve incidents efficiently.
Partner with Facilities and electrical/mechanical vendors to support power distribution, UPS, ATS, generator, cooling, airflow, and redundancy requirements.
Define, communicate, and enforce global data center standards, safety practices, hardening guidelines, and compliance requirements for the physical infrastructure environment.
Collaborate with Systems, Network, Storage, Facilities, Security, and vendor teams to plan, coordinate, and execute infrastructure deployments across global locations.
Develop and maintain accurate documentation, rack elevation diagrams, cable schedules, capacity tracking tools, procedures, and operational records for global data centers.
Participate in automation, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, and process modernization efforts that reduce manual work, improve consistency, and strengthen operational efficiency.
Support capacity planning, performance optimization, monitoring, backup readiness, maintenance activities, and continuous improvement across server, storage, and physical data center platforms.
Mentor junior engineers and promote safe, standardized, and disciplined execution of physical infrastructure work.
Stay current with data center technologies, industry practices, and operational trends to support innovation and modernization.
Participate in the on-call rotation and provide 24/7 support for data center operations as required