Principal Data Center Electrical Engineer

Support the design, deployment, maintenance, and operation of mission-critical

electrical infrastructure across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centers.

This role provides electrical engineering expertise, oversees tenant

improvements and white space fit-outs, and partners with internal teams and

colocation providers to maintain service availability, improve operational

efficiency, and ensure compliance with engineering and safety standards.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities

Critical Environment Maintenance Support:

-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.

Incident Management and Operation Improvement:

-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.

Site Selection and Build:

-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.

Data Center Operations Management:

-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.

Engineering Design, Leadership, and Governance:

-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.

Training and Knowledge Sharing:

-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.

Description

- 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.  

- Travel requirement: (typically ~25%).

Responsibilities

- 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.

QUALIFICATIONS

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to

comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health

mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the

stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible

for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for

variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as

well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as

well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees

assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is

provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees

working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days

annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for

subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees

working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours

per week are not eligible for vacation.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes

each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap

of 112 hours.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days

from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law,

US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which

involves the collection and processing of their biometric information.

Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized

assessment.

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