What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical & Capacity Design Engineer position at Digital Realty?
Job Description
Position Title: Electrical & Capacity Design Engineer
Your role
The Capacity Manager is responsible for a portfolio of Colocation sites. Lead person for Power & Cooling capacities and resources in response to rapid growth and changing business dynamics.
You will be a subject matter expert for a portfolio of sites, interacting with Sales Engineering team on pre-sales activities.
Planning, reporting, and managing the IT Load & Cooling capacity inside Data halls to maximize available resources to meet Organizational financial goals. In certain markets also involved and responsible for Engineering Designs, Contractors, Commissioning Agents for infrastructure upgrades and expansions.
Play an important role supporting a large data center portfolio, including a robust, ongoing flow of expansion projects. Expand your skills and knowledge in technology, project management and leadership in a broad, fast-paced role.
What You’ll Do
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .
A Bit About Our Team
Our Operations team keeps our customers’ infrastructure running safely and securely. We get plenty of opportunities to take on a variety of tasks and develop our technical skills. From overseeing electrical power to cooling and fire suppression systems, our team plays a vital role in making sure everything in our data centers operates as it should.
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.
Position Title: Electrical & Capacity Design Engineer
Your role
The Capacity Manager is responsible for a portfolio of Colocation sites. Lead person for Power & Cooling capacities and resources in response to rapid growth and changing business dynamics.
You will be a subject matter expert for a portfolio of sites, interacting with Sales Engineering team on pre-sales activities.
Planning, reporting, and managing the IT Load & Cooling capacity inside Data halls to maximize available resources to meet Organizational financial goals. In certain markets also involved and responsible for Engineering Designs, Contractors, Commissioning Agents for infrastructure upgrades and expansions.
Play an important role supporting a large data center portfolio, including a robust, ongoing flow of expansion projects. Expand your skills and knowledge in technology, project management and leadership in a broad, fast-paced role.
What You’ll Do
- Became an expert of ample variety of Power & Cooling Engineering Designs portfolio.
- Interface with Sales Engineers to design tailored solutions for AC&DC Power and Cooling.
- Verify customer-specific terms and apply them to Digital Realty suite of products.
- Develop a strong working relationship with the appropriate business users to understand the key business drivers and priorities.
- Oversees development of appropriate supporting IT solutions and system enhancements.
- Learn and understand DLR Business Model and daily operations.
- Travel about 20% to Sites to develop Engineering scope and perform quality control,
- Support continual process improvement through providing key reporting metrics and developing new reporting tools.
- Manage data for periodic reporting updates on available capacities.
- Manage distribution capacity for AC, DC power and Cooling.
- Managing capacities and resources in response to changing business dynamics.
- Assist in the Turn up and Commissioning of new distribution systems to ensure accuracy on documentation and across software platforms and Engineering Files.
- Manage and Coordinate Vendors during Colocation Expansion & Capital upgrade Projects.
- Ensure prompt and on time capacity additions to meet sales and customer demands.
- BS in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering preferred or equivalent.
- Understanding of business processes and drivers.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Strong communicator with both business users and technical project staff.
- Ability to Lead and Manage effectively simultaneous projects remotely.
- A solid technical background, excellent leadership skills, professional approach, good organizational skills, and the ability to produce quality work.
- Rigorous attention to detail and application of standards and processes.
- High self-motivation and strong delivery focus.
- Proactive ability to work with users to define business requirements.
- Strong problem solving skills.
- Experience creating detailed reports and development specifications.
- Ability to work remotely with light supervision and high productivity output.
- Ability to identify opportunities and generate options for new business deliverables.
- Experience supporting a 24x7 mission critical operations center or equivalent.
- Knowledge of ACAD.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Access, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Explorer) and or/equivalents
- Must be able to resolve customer problems effectively.
- Must work well in a team environment.
- Minimum of 3 years’ of electrical engineering experience or equivalent.
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .
A Bit About Our Team
Our Operations team keeps our customers’ infrastructure running safely and securely. We get plenty of opportunities to take on a variety of tasks and develop our technical skills. From overseeing electrical power to cooling and fire suppression systems, our team plays a vital role in making sure everything in our data centers operates as it should.
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.