Capacity Engineer Senior Staff

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Job Summary:

This role for Capacity Engineer Staff is an expert professional with a full understanding of CFD creation and interpretation, design and design drawings and a high level of understanding of electrical and mechanical systems in relation to data centers or critical facility operations. This is a highly collaboratively role but primarily you take ownership of all CFD analysis, ensuring all data sets are verified for accuracy and applicability and maintaining regional and global consistency and integrity.

Being able to spot data inaccuracies and make relevant changes, escalations or recommendations will be key in the role, this done whilst working with various internal and external stakeholders including sales and site engineers, and colleagues based throughout APAC and the globe.

Whilst training and support is afforded, we are looking for a proven self-starter to be able to adjust to the role quickly and adapt to daily and ongoing challenges.  The successful individual must be able to demonstrate a high level of understanding of CFD and its applicability in a data centre environment as well as the impacts of data centre operations on supporting infrastructure.

As the Capacity Engineering teams grow and form even greater importance in our Equinix strategies globally, this is a great time to join the Capacity team at an exciting time within the industry. Whilst this is an individual contributor role and at manager level, there is an expectation to help guide and mentor less experienced capacity engineers across the region.

Key Responsibilities:

CFD, Engineering, Space Planning & Design:

·       Responsible for and leads the CFD analysis function for the APAC region; required to build and run models, interpret results and communicate results to stakeholders based upon global frameworks.

·       Creates various/experienced Cage-Cabinet design options that respond to customer requirements, Equinix Requirements and physical site constraints within a diverse scope

·       Prepares notional Cage-Cabinet layouts, area calculations and diagrams for each individual data center and specializes in more complex, larger sites

·       Maximizes space utilization to develop the best design solution for the data centre and the customer.   

·       Utilizes experienced knowledge of electrical/mechanical infrastructure to notionally attribute complex Cage-Cabinet designs against data centre infrastructure within a diverse scope

·       Collaborates with regional engineering team members for data audits, accuracy and maintenance.

·       Participates in high-density review cases, seeking opinions of SME's or local sites where necessary.

·       Performs the validation and updating of data centre infrastructure data within capacity systems in a diverse scope

·       Identifies issues or constraints in infrastructure capacity and may prepare notional solutions for review by management

Data & Drawing Management:

·       Works with site operations to address discrepancies with documentation of facility infrastructure and installation of customer cages

·       Ensures all CAD drawings and capacity systems correctly represent existing status of the data centre, identifying and making necessary adjustments

·       Produces drawings and space plans for use by Sales, Site Operation and other teams, Identifies and leads the investigation of experienced data issues without support

·       Creates diverse spatial layouts of each customer cage which are used by the other capacity teams for their reviews, and by the Sales Engineers and site teams for customer installations

·       Drawing and inventory preparation, which may be reviewed by manager

·       Creates numbering plans for new sites, compiling inventory list, and preparing the drawings files used to track assignments

·       Compiles as-built underground utility drawings as required to create a comprehensive record drawing for each site within a diverse scope

Collaboration:

·       Collaborates with various teams to identify any power/cooling issues that affect capacity, and answers experienced inventory/infrastructure-related questions from cross-functional departments

·       Ability to engage and gather input from appropriate stakeholders to reach the right solution for the company and the customer within a diverse scope

·       Where decisions are in dispute between sales and operational needs, the engineer is expected to escalate to the right level

·       Coordinates with various departments for the reporting requirements

Capacity Feasibility & Optimization:

·       Works with Capacity and/or site engineers to identify power and cooling limitations, discuss potential modifications, and develop experienced solutioning

·       Acts as the first point of contact for the CFD process to ensure that necessary requirements are met and the process is executed in a timely manner according to global SLAs.

Qualifications, skills, attributes:

·       Engineering or Data Analysis related Degree qualified (or Trade Certified)

·       Willingness or deep understanding of our Equinix infrastructure

·       Previous capacity related experience in data centers, space, retail, logistics or industry with transferrable skills and knowledge

·       Ability to solves concurrent, complex, cross-functional issues that span multiple internal groups

·       Understands when and to whom to escalate, but tries to solve problem first

·       May act to support or lead junior engineers as well as taken on additional or varied duties outside regular job scope

·       Cadence Reality DC experience or similar; Excel, CAD, PowerBi, Tableau experience highly regarded

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability.  If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.