Data Centre Design Specialist

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments in Johannesburg seeks a Data Centre Design Specialist with a bachelor’s degree and at least five years of data center design experience to lead modeling, layouts, and documentation for client projects.

You will develop power, cooling, and monitoring specifications, assist with tender docs, and coordinate across rooms including UPS, fire safety, and access control.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or diploma in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in data center design with proven success.

Responsibilities

• Develops data center design models and designs for companies.
• Develops power analysis, capacity calculation, and storage analysis models.
• Designs new data center racks, servers, and network layout.
• Documents data center designs, including floor plans, cable diagrams, power diagrams, and acoustics.
• Assists with drafting tender specifications and documentation for Data Centre rebuilds.
• Develops specifications for rebuilding two data centers including room design, cooling, fire suppression and detection, electrical reticulation, power, and environmental monitoring.
• Develops specifications for monitoring, fire detection, and suppression for four UPS rooms.
• Develops access control specifications for all data centers.
• Develops specifications for fireproofing and dust proofing of one UPS room.
• Develops specification for integrated monitoring of all four datacentres including fire alarms, generators, UPSs, power, and environmental monitoring.

Skills

Data centre design

Power analysis

Capacity calculation

Networking layout

Education

Bachelor's degree or Diploma in Computer Science or related field

Job description

About the job Data Centre Design Specialist

• Bachelors degree or diploma in Computer Science or a related field required.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in the data center design industry with a proven track record of success.

Responsibilities:

• Develops data center design models and designs for companies.
• Develops power analysis, capacity calculation, and storage analysis models.
• Designs new data center racks, servers, and network layout.
• Documentation of data center designs, including floor plans, cable diagrams, power diagrams, and building acoustics.
• Assist with drafting the tender specification and documentation for the client's Data Centre rebuild and refurbishment project.
• Develop specifications for the rebuilding of two data centers including room design, cooling, fire suppression and detection, electrical reticulation, power, and environmental monitoring.
• Develop specifications for monitoring, fire detection, and suppression for **four** UPS rooms;
• Develop access control specifications for all data centers.
• Develop specifications for fireproofing and dust proofing of one UPS room.
• Develop specification for integrated monitoring of all four datacentres including fire alarms, generators, UPSs, power, and environmental monitoring.