Data Center Facility Engineer

Responsibilities:

• The incumbent will need to build the relationship with colocation (COLO) service providers and work with them to manage the critical electrical/ mechanical systems within data centers, with responding emergent failure, managing and mitigating the risk and tracking all daily maintenances of critical equipment.
• The incumbent will also evaluate the service performance of COLO and drive them to improve with operation data and will also work with internal teams like procurement to influence them improving on the SLA terms or strategy.
• Responsible for critical facility operation of Alibaba oversea data centers.
• Responsible for managing the changes on critical systems, responding the emergent failure and tracking preventative maintenance.
• Responsible for capacity management of facility systems including power and cooling, etc.
• Manage availability risk of facility systems and drive the resolution.
• Drive and implement projects to improve the capacity, efficiency and reliability of current facility system.
• Support IT manager (IT) on their project and operations.
• Support design and project teams on new site/data-hall construction and commissioning.
• Establish performance benchmark, conduct analyses, and prepare reports on all aspects of the critical facility infrastructure operations and maintenance.

Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering of electrical, mech or related field.
• 3 years of critical facility management or operation experience in large scale data center or 5 years large scale production facility management experience in large scale plant.
• Experience and knowledge of MEP equipment such as UPS, generator, Chiller, Pump, cooling tower, etc.
• Good sense of building and maintain a safety and high efficiency working environment in daily work.
• Strong written and verbal communication skill in English.
• High attention to details to identify the risk and drive to resolve them.
• Ability to communicate in mandarin will be added advantage.