Principal Data Center Electrical Engineer

Oracle seeks a Principal Data Center Electrical Engineer to support the readiness, compliance, and operational reliability of its expanding data center infrastructure. The role oversees electrical engineering activities across site assessment, fit-outs, commissioning, operations, incident response, and engineering improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Manages the ongoing critical environment maintenance support for all service lines to pre-defined SLAs to ensure service uptime is maintained to the highest standards and that faults are dealt with promptly
• Employs practical operating knowledge of engineering systems, including standard diagnostics and repairs
• Applies knowledge of Oracle processes, procedures, and industry standards to resolve routine issues
• Offers suggestions for system-level enhancements to reduce potential problems
• Contributes to testing the suitability of components or action plans for deployments
• Manages incidents that impact OCI services, proactively addressing root causes in a timely manner
• Collaborates with design, construction, commissioning, facility engineering, data center operations, health and safety, and compliance teams to integrate new electrical distribution systems to existing data center
• Empowers operational optimization and efficiency improvement initiatives
• Ensures alignment of own work with safe working practices
• Provides expertise during post-incident reviews by conducting root cause analyses, documenting lessons learned, and developing Corrective and Preventive Action Plans (CAPAs) to mitigate recurrence and improve system resilience
• Conducts site reviews and assessments in collaboration with other teams to evaluate suitability for data center builds, gathering and analyzing technical, environmental, and infrastructure data to inform decision-making
• Prepares technical reports to document findings, support recommendations, and communicate results to stakeholders
• Participates in design reviews and oversees commissioning activities in collaboration with other teams, reviewing data to ensure alignment with engineering standards and project requirements
• Reviews mechanical simulations (e.g., Computational Fluid Dynamics [CFD] analyses) to assess airflow and thermal performance, identifying design adjustments to improve system efficiency, reliability, and performance
• Supports and validates on-site data centers operations in relation to the electrical or mechanical infrastructure
• Serves as an electrical or mechanical subject matter expert (SME) for on-site operations related to mission critical electrical systems, operations, and functionality
• Partners with the colocation providers' engineering teams to ensure electrical or mechanical systems are adequately designed, specified, and installed to deliver robust operation for Oracle
• Adheres to developed standards and policy through the review of documentation, participates in commissioning activities, design summits, and data center commissioning or reviews
• Reviews critical impacting changes and represents engineering in change advisory board (CAB) meetings
• Collaborates with senior team members and supports a project or other design and engineering initiatives
• Provides engineering insight to ensure project or other design initiatives align with company expectations
• Coordinates with internal and external project team members in delivering specific aspects of data centers or part-data centers for Oracle
• Provides input for effective contract administration, including supporting the generation and review of contracts, change orders, cost forecasts, and other pertinent documents
• Contributes to the development of policy documents by collaborating with team members
• Contributes to the creation and upkeep of best-in-class policies and procedures, participating in their review as necessary
• Prepares technical reports to document findings, communicate progress, and support project or design decision-making
• Contributes to the identification of training programs for newer members of the team
• Acts as a subject matter expert with many standard systems and trains others on the team
• Demonstrated desire and ability to learn, grow, and develop new skills
• Oversee tenant improvement work associated with white space fit-outs in new data center spaces
• Promote and reinforce a culture of safety, security, and compliance across all data center activities
• Maintain a strong understanding of data center Electrical design and operational functionality
• Partner with design, construction, and commissioning teams to integrate new Electrical systems into existing data centers
• Support and validate on-site data center operations related to Electrical infrastructure
• Serve as the Electrical SME for mission critical Electrical systems, operations, and performance
• Create digitized Electrical distribution templates to support rack placement planning
• Drive operational optimization and efficiency improvement initiatives
• Review new sites and proposed fit out designs
• Ensure Electrical plans are accurate and failover designs meet compliance requirements
• Develop digitized Electrical models
• Support supplier led white space fit-out activities
• Ensure documentation is captured, stored, referenced, and shared with field engineering and operations teams
• Support engineering investigations into large-scale events
• Provide support to field engineering teams

Requirements:

• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages: English
• Visa / work permit sponsorship is not available for this position
• Demonstrated desire and ability to learn, grow, and develop new skills
• Maintain a strong understanding of data center Electrical design and operational functionality