Global Data Center Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colombia, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Establish and enforce protocols for recording and reporting power, cooling, rack, and space configurations at each site.

• Engage in analysis pertaining to space, power, and cooling for data center relocations, migrations, and consolidations.

• Provide precise capacity and utilization statistics to inform resource allocation and planning decisions.

• Proactively identify sites nearing power, cooling, or space limits and manage capacity risks effectively.

• Maintain resilience, safety, and compliance standards throughout facilities, including redundancy objectives and disaster recovery strategies.

• Keep a reliable, accurate, and up-to-date global inventory of all data centers and equipment rooms.

• Monitor data regarding space, power, cooling, racks, cabinets, assets, and connectivity across facilities.

• Assess utilization and available capacity at the rack, row, room, and site levels.

• Anticipate capacity needs and suggest expansion, consolidation, or reallocation strategies.

• Conduct analyses for site readiness and moving sequence planning.

• Create reports and dashboards for leadership, finance, and planning purposes.

• Establish data standards, naming conventions, and audit schedules.

• Perform periodic physical audits and reconcile observed data with site conditions.

• Collaborate with infrastructure/IT leadership, networking, cloud, security, procurement, finance, facilities teams, service providers, and business units.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience managing data center infrastructure on a multi-site or global scale, ideally across a combination of owned and colocation facilities.

• Profound, practical knowledge of data center power, cooling, and physical space, including circuits, PDUs, UPS and generators, redundancy concepts (N, N+1, 2N), cooling systems, and containment strategies.

• Proven ability to maintain accurate inventory and capacity data consistently across multiple sites.

• Experience in planning and executing data center relocations, migrations, consolidations, or build-outs.

• Expertise in colocation and vendor management, including contracts, SLAs, capacity commitments, and cost management.

• Strong analytical and reporting capabilities: adept at transforming raw facility data into clear capacity forecasts and dashboards, with advanced skills in spreadsheets and familiarity with BI or reporting tools.

• Experience coordinating activities across various regions, time zones, and stakeholder groups.

• Data center certifications such as Uptime Institute (ATD/ATS), BICSI DCDC, or EPI CDCP/CDCS/CDCE.

• Familiarity with specific DCIM platforms (e.g., Nlyte, Sunbird, Device42, or Hyperview).

• Knowledge of relevant standards, including Uptime Institute Tier topology, ANSI/TIA-942, and ASHRAE thermal guidelines.

• Exposure to hybrid environments (on-premises, colocation, edge, and public cloud) and understanding how physical capacity relates to workload placement.

• Awareness of data center sustainability and energy efficiency practices, including PUE and power reporting.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• Flexibility to work within the EST time zone.

• Company-provided working equipment.