Senior Data Center Facilities Engineer
Job Summary
The Senior Data Center Facilities Engineer develops and manages CMMS standards for Oracle-owned data center facilities infrastructure with primary responsibility for asset data maintenance programs work management and lifecycle planning. The role supports reliable operation of critical electrical distribution and liquid cooling systems by ensuring maintenance requirements equipment records documentation spare-parts information and reporting are accurate consistent and actionable.
The engineer also supports colocation maintenance activities by reviewing planned work coordinating with stakeholders presenting critical maintenance changes for approval and managing day-to-day coordination of data center activities.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
CMMS Standards and Asset Management
- Develops implements and maintains CMMS standards for Oracle-owned data center facilities infrastructure.
- Builds and manages asset hierarchies equipment records location structures naming conventions asset attributes and lifecycle data within the CMMS.
- Establishes data-governance practices to ensure asset records are accurate complete consistent and traceable across Oracle-owned sites.
- Develops and maintains equipment naming standards asset-data requirements documentation expectations and quality-control processes.
- Supports asset onboarding for new construction expansions retrofits and major equipment replacements.
- Validates asset information equipment tagging ownership assignments technical documentation and maintenance requirements before operational handoff.
- Coordinates with site teams engineering construction commissioning reliability and operations teams to resolve asset-data gaps and maintain CMMS accuracy.
- Supports audits readiness reviews reliability assessments and operational handoffs by providing accurate CMMS and asset data.
Maintenance Program Development and Work Management
- Develops and manages asset-based preventive predictive corrective and inspection maintenance programs for critical facilities infrastructure.
- Creates work-order templates job plans task lists maintenance frequencies labor estimates material requirements safety notes and acceptance criteria.
- Defines maintenance requirements using equipment documentation O&M manuals single-line diagrams commissioning documents manufacturer recommendations and operating experience.
- Identifies maintenance-coverage gaps duplicate work overdue maintenance incomplete procedures and opportunities to improve maintenance effectiveness.
- Supports work-order planning scheduling execution documentation and closure quality for critical infrastructure maintenance.
- Ensures maintenance history work records equipment documentation and follow-up actions are accurately captured in the CMMS.
- Supports development of critical-spares strategies bills of materials spare-parts associations and inventory linkage within the CMMS.
Electrical Distribution and Liquid Cooling Infrastructure
- Develops maintenance standards and asset-management requirements for electrical distribution infrastructure including switchgear UPS systems batteries PDUs RPPs transformers breakers panels busway generators transfer switches and related monitoring systems.
- Supports maintenance-program development for liquid cooling infrastructure including CDUs manifolds pumps heat exchangers controls filtration systems valves piping components and associated monitoring points.
- Partners with Facilities Engineering Operations Reliability Commissioning Construction and Data Center Operations to define asset-based maintenance requirements for critical facilities systems.
- Supports reliability-centered maintenance practices criticality ranking lifecycle planning and maintenance-strategy improvements where applicable.
Reporting Governance and Continuous Improvement
- Generates CMMS reports and dashboards for maintenance compliance asset reliability work-order performance backlog management asset-data quality and lifecycle planning.
- Uses CMMS and operational data to identify recurring failures maintenance trends reporting inaccuracies asset-data issues and improvement opportunities.
- Drives continuous improvement in maintenance processes CMMS workflows asset governance engineering documentation and reporting.
- Develops and maintains CMMS standards workflows templates and reporting requirements in alignment with Oracle operational needs.
- Prepares clear maintenance procedures job plans standards reports and technical documentation for site and stakeholder use.
Colocation Maintenance Vendor Coordination and Change Support
- Supports Oracle colocation partners in planning and executing maintenance activities affecting Oracle-owned critical infrastructure.
- Manages day-to-day coordination with maintenance vendors including scheduling work confirming attendance coordinating site access and communicating site requirements.
- Holds vendors accountable for timely attendance complete service documentation and resolution of site feedback or follow-up actions.
- Reviews planned maintenance requests MOPs risk assessments rollback plans outage requirements and customer-impact considerations.
- Evaluates proposed maintenance for operational risk safety sequencing redundancy impact and alignment with Oracle standards.
- Coordinates with colocation partners Data Center Operations Facilities Engineering vendors and other stakeholders to resolve review comments and readiness gaps.
- Presents critical maintenance activities and changes for review and approval through CAB meetings and other required governance forums.
- Tracks approved maintenance through execution and verifies completion records findings and follow-up actions are documented.
- Tracks and validates vendor invoices against approved work attendance completed service documentation and agreed deliverables; provides supporting information to responsible teams or leaders for approval.
General Responsibilities
- Supports incident response corrective actions and post-event documentation for critical infrastructure issues.
- Adheres to Oracle safe-working practices emergency operating procedures and applicable standards.
- Supports training and knowledge sharing related to CMMS processes maintenance planning documentation and data-center operations.
- Works independently while collaborating effectively across technical and operational teams in a fast-paced environment.
Required Qualifications
- Experience working with CMMS platforms enterprise asset management systems or maintenance-management tools.
- Experience developing or managing asset-based maintenance programs.
- Background in data center facilities critical environments industrial facilities utilities manufacturing or other mission-critical infrastructure environments.
- Working knowledge of electrical distribution systems and/or mechanical cooling systems.
- Understanding of preventive maintenance corrective maintenance work-order management asset hierarchy equipment lifecycle and maintenance-planning principles.
- Ability to interpret equipment documentation O&M manuals single-line diagrams P&IDs commissioning documents and maintenance procedures.
- Strong data-organization skills and attention to naming conventions asset attributes equipment records and maintenance documentation.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering operations construction commissioning reliability site and colocation-partner teams.
- Strong written communication skills including the ability to create clear maintenance procedures job plans standards reports and change-review materials.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced high-growth environment with evolving standards and priorities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting data center critical facilities infrastructure.
- Experience with liquid cooling infrastructure including CDUs heat exchangers pumps manifolds valves piping filtration systems controls or related thermal-management systems.
- Experience with electrical infrastructure such as UPS systems switchgear generators PDUs RPPs transformers breakers STS units busway and power-monitoring systems.
- Experience with CMMS or EAM platforms such as Maximo ServiceNow eMaint Corrigo Archibus SAP PM Oracle EAM or similar systems.
- Experience building asset hierarchies and preventive-maintenance programs from the ground up.
- Knowledge of reliability-centered maintenance failure modes criticality ranking lifecycle planning or asset-reliability principles.
- Experience supporting commissioning-to-operations handoff for new facilities or major infrastructure projects.
- Familiarity with spare-parts planning critical-spares strategy bill of materials development and maintenance inventory processes.
- Experience creating dashboards KPIs or reporting views for maintenance compliance asset performance and work-order execution.
Qualifications
Career Level - IC3
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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