Site Infrastructure Architect: Data Centers & Buildouts

Devopsroles; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Site Infrastructure Engineer to design and support physical IT infrastructure across offices, labs, manufacturing facilities, and data centers. You will collaborate with Network, Systems, Cloud, Security, Facilities, and vendors to enable scalable, reliable site builds and data center deployments.

Responsibilities include creating rack layouts, MDF/IDF planning, BOMs, and accurate documentation while ensuring capacity and cooling requirements are met.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data center, enterprise site, or physical IT infra engineering.
• Experience designing infrastructure across offices, labs, data centers, or similar environments.
• Strong ability to create and maintain rack elevations, cabling docs, and infrastructure diagrams.

Responsibilities

• Plan and design physical IT infrastructure for offices, labs, manufacturing facilities, and data centers.
• Lead site buildouts, office expansions, relocations, and data center deployments.
• Develop rack layouts, MDF/IDF requirements, and BOMs for infrastructure.
• Maintain rack elevations, connectivity diagrams, and DCIM data across environments.
• Support capacity planning for rack space, power, cooling, and cabling.
• Administer and improve DCIM/IPAM/CMDB platforms like Nautobot, NetBox, Device42.
• Establish infrastructure documentation and labeling standards.
• Review floor plans, low-voltage drawings, and vendor designs; manage circuits.
• Coordinate with architects, contractors, carriers, OEMs, and field-service vendors.
• Collaborate with Network, Systems, and Cloud teams to support compute, storage, connectivity, and security.
• Identify gaps and opportunities to improve infrastructure standards and processes.
• Mentor junior engineers and resolve technical issues.

Skills

Data center design

Rack elevations

DCIM/CMDB

Power and cooling management

Physical cabling

Vendor coordination

Documentation

Project leadership

Site/data center migrations

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/electrical engineering

Tools

Nautobot/NetBox

Device42

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Site Infrastructure Engineer to design and support physical IT infrastructure across offices, labs, manufacturing facilities, and data centers. You will collaborate with Network, Systems, Cloud, Security, Facilities, and vendors to enable scalable, reliable site builds and data center deployments.

Responsibilities include creating rack layouts, MDF/IDF planning, BOMs, and accurate documentation while ensuring capacity and cooling requirements are met.