Director, Global Critical Infrastructure Technical Advisor
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Job Location:
Chicago, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
9 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position Title: Global Critical Infrastructure Technical Advisor
Your role
The Global Critical Infrastructure Technical Advisor provides deep technical expertise and strategic support across the global data center portfolio. This role is instrumental in guiding capital equipment lifecycle decisions evaluating emerging technologies and supporting innovation programs focused on energy efficiency predictive maintenance and AI-driven infrastructure optimization. The Advisor partners closely with the Global Lead for Change and Maintenance Management to ensure that infrastructure evolution is both technically sound and operationally seamless.
What youll do
- Evaluate next-generation infrastructure technologies for feasibility and deployment.
- Support AI-driven initiatives such as:
- Energy optimization and load balancing
- Condition-based maintenance and predictive analytics
- Smart alerting and fault detection
- Collaborate with data science and engineering teams to translate operational needs into intelligent solutions.
- Act as a technical authority for infrastructure upgrades and critical asset approvals.
- Provide guidance on system reliability maintainability and lifecycle planning.
- Partner with the Global Lead for Change and Maintenance Management to align technical decisions with operational protocols.
- Contribute to change control reviews maintenance strategy development and post-implementation evaluations.
- Support global initiatives aimed at improving infrastructure performance and sustainability.
- Contribute to the development and refinement of technical standards documentation and best practices.
- Review and advise on design packages for infrastructure replacements.
- Validate technical solutions against global standards and operational requirements.
- Provide risk assessments and recommendations for aging asset replacement.
What youll need
- Bachelors degree in Mechanical Electrical or Facilities Engineering (or equivalent experience).
- 10 years in data center infrastructure critical systems or facilities engineering.
- Strong understanding of power systems cooling technologies and building automation.
- Familiarity with AI applications in industrial or infrastructure environments.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
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A bit about us
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL the companys global data center platform provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty please visit or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
A bit about our team
Our Operations team keeps our customers infrastructure running safely and securely. We get plenty of opportunities to take on a variety of tasks and develop our technical skills. From overseeing electrical power to cooling and fire suppression systems our team plays a vital role in making sure everything in our data centers operates as it should.
What we can offer you
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and youll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team youll get to work with people from different business areas challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. Well also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Apply today take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isnt just a priority here at Digital; its critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives protecting assets and securing data arent just ideals - theyre essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package excellent benefits and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the companys overall goals and values.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Ruby
- Disaster Recovery
- Active Directory
- SOA
- Cloud
- IaaS
- PowerShell
- AWS
- Infrastructure
- Linux
- VPN
- Hyper-V
- VM
- IP
- Identity
About Company
With Digital Realty, you can leverage our full interconnection capabilities across our global ecosystem including data centers, connectivity and cloud services.
