What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Critical Infrastructure Engineer position at Serverfarm?
Serverfarm is a leading developer and operator of data centers with over 750 locations and key customer relationships in 45 countries. We're revolutionizing how data centers operate across North America, Western Europe, and Israel, serving the world's leading technology and hyperscale companies. With Manulife Investment Management's acquisition in 2023 and our award-winning InCommand platform we're positioned for explosive growth as AI adoption and cloud migration drive unprecedented demand for data center capacity.
A career at Serverfarm means being at the forefront of digital infrastructure innovation, where your work directly impacts how the world's data is managed and secured. As we target 4x growth over the next four years, you'll have unprecedented opportunities to take on new challenges, develop cutting-edge skills, and grow your career across our expanding global operations.
Join our team of innovators and help shape the future of sustainable data centers while building a career without boundaries.
Key Accountabilities- Develop and maintain global consistent colocation design standards to drive equivalent resilience in new and existing data centers.
- Support the deployment of new ServerFarm products in colocation data centers in a consistent way, including liquid cooling and high-density racks and systems to support hyperscale requirements for cloud-compute, machine Learning and AI services.
- Reviews and provides suggestions to update global design standards and generational data center template designs.
- Support development and operational engineering teams to review and accept proposed changes to site-specific infrastructure at ServerFarm data centers to validate standards, and to identify and document accepted deviations when appropriate.
- Work with internal and external global teams to drive consistent standard solutions to expedite review processes and drive cost efficiency.
- Set up global strategies to deploy specific customer products or design, and to drive consistency and efficiencies for delivering customer requirements. Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
- Documentation, release and management of design guides, standards, specifications and procedures.
- 35% domestic and international travel
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical or closely aligned engineering discipline, or commensurate industry experience or military experience in lieu of degree may be acceptable.
- 3-6 years of electrical or mechanical non-intern engineering experience in Mission Critical facilities including, but not limited to: data centers, power generation, oil/gas, and other mission critical facilities and/or infrastructure.
- Chartered or Professional Engineer (PE) or Engineer in Training (EIT).
- Experience of working with large global data center providers in multiple regions globally.
- Knowledge of local building codes and safety regulations in multiple jurisdictions
- Ability to develop new concepts through exploration, design, testing and into deployment/mass production.
- Proven track record in creating and releasing high quality, consistent documentation for processes, standards and procedures.
- 2 years of participating in root cause analysis of equipment or system failures as well as incident support management
- Knowledge of critical data center equipment (Generators, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Switchgear, Transformers, Power Feeders, Chillers, Plumbing, Fire Detection/Suppression, Air Handling Units, Computer Room Air Handling/Conditioning Units, Chillers, UPS, CRAH, CRAC...)
- Demonstrated knowledge of electrical design codes in different locations, knowledge working with SPOF
- Excellent verbal and writing communication skills
Serverfarm is committed to providing an equal opportunity workplace and offers paid time off, paid holidays, 401k and FULL coverage medical, dental and vision. Our compensation philosophy rewards employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned with the company’s goals and strategic initiatives.
The listed salary range for this position is an estimate based on the competitive job market. Final compensation will be based on your own individual skills, experience, and location.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed in this role. They are not intended to serve as an exhaustive list of all possible responsibilities and duties. We encourage you to apply even if your experience isn't an exact match to the job description.
The listed salary range for this position is an estimate based on the competitive job market. Final compensation will be based on your own individual skills, experience, and location.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed in this role. They are not intended to serve as an exhaustive list of all possible responsibilities and duties. We encourage you to apply even if your experience isn't an exact match to the job description.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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