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# Critical Facilities/Data Center Engineer

- **Company:** Zachary Piper
- **Location:** Ashburn, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $105,000.0 - $130,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Applicant Tracking Systems, Big Data, Data Centers
- **Published:** July 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/us3a904ef35b724c24bb5e9270a763e2e5/eaa

## About the Role

* A deep understanding of chiller, chilled water and air handler technologies and electrical switchgear, generators, load banks, UPS, STS, PDU, RPP, and batteries
 * 7+ years' relevant experience operating data centers in a technical lead individual contributor role
 * A Mechanical, Electrical, or other related Engineering degree or equivalent job experience
 * Strong verbal and written communication skills
 * Direct experience with design, engineering, commissioning, and operations of data center electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment
 * Demonstrated expertise of the data center tier rating systems and design risk factors for resiliency and availability
 * Experience reviewing technical drawings to ensure installations and designs conform to industry best practices and standards
 * Experience in operations of large-scale data center environments
 * Existing data center service vendor relationships
 * Experience with Electrical Power Management Systems (EPMS) and Building Management Software (BMS)
 * Relevant industry certifications (NFPA, ATS, ATO, AOS, DCDC, etc)

## Description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Critical Facilities/Data Center Engineer to join a team in Ashburn, VA. The Critical Facilities/Data Center Engineer will support the Sr. Manager of Data Center Operations as a technical lead.
Responsibilities of the Critical Facilities/Data Center Engineer:

 * Operate independently with limited direct management
 * Act as an escalation point for all facilities-related issues within the data center, escalating to the Sr. Manager of Data Center Operations as needed
 * Ensure all electrical, mechanical, fire/life safety equipment supporting the data centers are operating at peak efficiency and are highly available
 * Identify Single Points of Failures (SPoF) and End of Life (EOL) equipment within existing design/architecture and drive prioritization/remediation efforts within the facility
 * Drive preventative maintenance best practices and oversight using Method of Procedures (MOP) and Emergency Operating Procedures (EOP) for the facility
 * Identify root cause of system failures and present those findings to Senior Leadership
 * Oversee multi-year capacity/growth critical facilities projects within the facility and build business cases to support the projects
 * Be open to a continuous improvement culture, Key Words: data center, heating, cooling, cable, engineer, facility, capex, forecasting, eops, mops, sops, electricity distribution, chillers, humidity, power distribution, support system, mechanical, chilled water systems, hvac, crac, crah, generator, main switchgear, ups, sts, pdu


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