Data Center Jobs: Companies Hiring in Virginia’s Data Center Alley

July 7, 2020
Data center providers are looking to fill a variety of engineering and management positions, including opportunities in growth markets in Ashburn, Virginia and Portland, Oregon.

As the summer heats up, data center providers are looking to fill a variety of engineering and management positions. See below for top job openings for this month, including two opportunities in Ashburn, Va., known as Data Center Alley.

See below for the full list of the leading data center jobs for July 2020:

Data Center Operations Commissioning Manager
Portland, Ore. 

This opportunity is with a leading mission-critical data center developer and colocation provider.  This position’s responsibilities include performing periodic site walk-throughs in order to ensure Company’s procedures (SOPS and MOPS) and standards are followed, identifying any vulnerabilities, communicating the status of the operation process with senior management and onsite customers and more. The position requires five to 10 years of data center facility operations and maintenance experience.

Electrical Commissioning Engineer
Portland, Ore. 

This Portland, Ore., position is with a leader in critical facilities assessment and commissioning services in the U.S. The new Electrical Commissioning Engineer will manage projects, plans, provide and gather specifications, and execute assignments in a multidisciplinary engineering commissioning role for large facility projects. This position requires five to 10 year of experience in the electrical field.

Senior Data Center Facility Manager
San Jose, Calif. 

This colocation provider is looking for a manager with 10 to 15 years of data center critical facility operations and maintenance experience. The Data Center Manager will be responsible for managing the operation and maintenance of the critical facility physical infrastructure systems in accordance with company’s policies and procedures. The data center facility manager will be managing Mechanical and Electrical Technicians, as well as manager the local relationship with the customer.

UPS Field Service Technician
San Jose, Calif.

This job opportunity is with a company that is a leader in third-party installs, and their service offering supports critical facilities like data centers, telecommunications facilities, and disaster recovery sites. The successful candidate will preferably three to five years of experience in this field and ability to troubleshoot down to component level on equipment such as UPS, batteries, PDU’s, STS and more.

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Senior Electrical Engineer
Los Angeles

For this position, data center critical facility experience is a huge plus, and requires seven to 15 years of experience. The successful candidate will create designs and plans, provided and gather specifications, and execute assignments in a multidisciplinary electrical engineering design role for small to medium sized data center facility design projects.

Data Center Facility Operations Director
Ashburn, Va.

This opportunity in Data Center Alley is with a firm that provides data center solutions custom-fit to the requirements of their client’s mission-critical operational facilities. The firm is looking for an experienced (10-15 years) Data Center Facility Operations Director to support multiple data centers. The successful candidate will oversee the work performed by in-house data center facility manager to ensure each site is meeting the high and dynamic standards of their internal customers.

Senior Electrical Commissioning Engineer – Federal
Ashburn Va.

This Northern Virginia opportunity is available to any candidate, no matter where they location in the U.S., as long as they are near an international airport. The position requires 10 or more years of experience in the electrical field. The chosen candidate will participate in daily commissioning activity meetings which services include, equipment pre-start-up and start-up procedures, development of standard operating procedures (SOP’s) and Methods of Procedures (MOPs); comprehensive commissioning documentation and more.

Senior Electrical Engineer
New York, N.Y.

This position is with an engineering design and commissioning company that is a regional leader in the Northeast. The position requires five to 15 years of experience, and critical facility experience is a huge plus. The new engineer will manage projects, create designs and plans, provided and gather specifications, and execute assignments in a multidisciplinary electrical engineering design role for small to medium sized data center facility design projects.

Data Center Facility Engineer
Smyrna, Ga.

This opportunity is with a leading provider of data center colocation sites. The firm is looking for Data Center Engineer to support a critical data center. The Critical Facility Engineer will be responsible for monitoring compliance with contractual commitments, directing technical and administrative tasks related to the operation of the critical facility infrastructure and assuring compliance with company’s policies and procedures. This position requires five or more years of relevant experience, including time with power, electrical and mechanical equipment including generators, critical and essential PDU’s, UPS, switchgear, Air handling units, computer grade cooling systems, Chillers, CRAC / CRAH Units, DC Power Systems, and building monitoring/control systems.

MEP Commissioning Manager
Salt Lake City, Utah

The successful candidate will manage commissioning team, oversight of multiple projects, plans, provide and gather specifications, and execute assignments in a multidisciplinary commissioning role for large data centers. This position requires 10 of more years of experience in the electrical/mechanical commissioning field.

Stay tuned to the Data Center Frontier jobs board, powered by Pkaza Critical Facilities Recruiting,  for your next opportunity. 

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