Data Centre Design & Infrastructure Strategy Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Data Centre Design & Infrastructure Strategy Engineer to spearhead the design, expansion, modernization, and infrastructure capacity planning for multiple data centre locations.

This position entails establishing infrastructure standards, assessing current and future capacity needs, formulating expansion strategies and business cases, and delivering technical guidance to senior management.

The successful candidate will possess extensive knowledge in data centre physical infrastructure, including power, cooling, space planning, cabling, and network architecture, alongside experience in vendor management, budgeting, and infrastructure strategy development.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and uphold data centre infrastructure standards related to power, cooling, racks, cabling, containment, and physical infrastructure.
• Oversee data centre site evaluations, capacity planning, infrastructure assessments, and optimization projects.
• Evaluate present and anticipated requirements for power, cooling, rack space, connectivity, and physical infrastructure capacity.
• Create detailed expansion options, investment proposals, budgets, and business cases for data centre initiatives.
• Critique and validate data centre infrastructure and network architecture designs to ensure scalability, resilience, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
• Contribute technical expertise to new data centre constructions, expansions, migrations, modernization, and consolidation efforts.
• Analyze infrastructure needs across various data centre sites and devise long-term capacity and modernization strategies.
• Collaborate closely with colocation providers, engineering consultants, network teams, infrastructure teams, and technology vendors.
• Facilitate technical discussions, requirements gathering, commercial assessments, and negotiations with external vendors and service providers.
• Identify opportunities for enhancing capacity utilization, infrastructure efficiency, resilience, and operational costs.
• Prepare and deliver technical recommendations, investment proposals, and infrastructure strategies to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure that data centre designs and standards conform to applicable industry standards, resilience requirements, and enterprise architecture principles.

Key Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Data Centre Design, Data Centre Engineering, Infrastructure Planning, Infrastructure Architecture, or a related discipline.
• In-depth knowledge of data centre physical infrastructure, which includes:
• UPS and power systems
• PDU and power distribution
• Cooling and HVAC systems
• Racks and containment systems
• Structured cabling
• Space and capacity planning
• Solid understanding of data centre network architecture, featuring Spine-Leaf and Pod-based architectures.
• Demonstrable experience in data centre capacity planning, infrastructure expansion, modernization, and optimization.
• Proficient in developing budgets, cost estimates, business cases, and investment proposals.
• Significant experience collaborating with colocation providers, engineering consultants, system integrators, and infrastructure vendors.
• Experience in vendor assessment, commercial negotiations, and technical governance.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication abilities, capable of presenting technical recommendations to senior management.
• Experience in enterprise-scale or financial services data centre environments is advantageous.
• Familiarity with Uptime Institute Tier Standards, DCIM tools, and data centre industry standards is preferred.

Preferred Certification

• CDCP (Certified Data Centre Professional) or an equivalent data centre certification.

Key Skills

Data Centre Design | Data Centre Infrastructure | Capacity Planning | Infrastructure Strategy | Power & Cooling | UPS | PDU | Racks & Cabling | Data Centre Architecture | Spine-Leaf | Pod Architecture | DCIM | Vendor Management | Budgeting | Business Cases | Infrastructure Modernization