Design & Reliability Engineering Manager

Key responsibilities — commissioning and delivery assurance

• Partner with delivery and commissioning teams to define functional and integrated testing requirements, acceptance criteria, evidence packages and outstanding-defect management.

• Validate that electrical and cooling infrastructure can support the contracted AI load envelope under normal, maintenance and credible fault conditions.

• Review test scripts and results for loss of utility, UPS/generator transitions, cooling component failures, controls faults, CDU interface events and staged restoration where applicable.

• Ensure operational handover includes accurate drawings, asset and interface registers, monitoring points, setpoints, maintenance constraints, emergency procedures and unresolved risk ownership.

• Support live-site changes and capacity upgrades with a disciplined review of impact, sequencing, rollback plans and operational readiness.

Key responsibilities — field reliability and root-cause analysis

• Act as a technical escalation point for recurring or high-impact electrical, mechanical and controls incidents across operational colocation sites.

• Analyze alarms, BMS/EPMS trends, event sequences, power-quality records, cooling telemetry, commissioning findings and maintenance evidence to distinguish symptoms from systemic causes.

• Lead or challenge technical root-cause investigations with colocation partners, including common-mode failures, protection miscoordination, thermal instability, control logic, hydraulic performance and hidden capacity limitations.

• Develop risk-ranked corrective actions and reliability improvement programs; validate effectiveness through evidence and post-change monitoring.

• Identify fleet-wide patterns and feed lessons learned into reference designs, acceptance tests, technical specifications and provider governance.

• Review maintenance and change proposals that create material exposure to compute availability, providing clear technical recommendations and escalation where required.

Key responsibilities — collaboration and leadership

• Work with IT hardware, network and platform teams to understand the operational consequences of rack-level and cluster-level failure domains.

• Influence colocation providers, consultants and OEM partners through technically rigorous, fact-based reviews without relying on direct operational authority.

• Present design trade-offs, reliability risks and investment recommendations in language accessible to engineering leadership and business stakeholders.

• Develop reusable standards, technical playbooks and engineering knowledge sharing to support consistent decisions across a rapidly expanding portfolio.

What success looks like

• New capacity is accepted against well-defined electrical, thermal and resilience criteria with transparent technical exceptions.

• Design risks are identified early, reducing late changes, stranded capacity and avoidable operational constraints.

• Repeat incidents and unresolved critical engineering defects decrease as corrective actions are verified.

• Field experience produces measurable improvements to future designs and live-site operating resilience.

Minimum qualifications

• At least 8 years in mission-critical data center design, engineering, commissioning or technical reliability, including responsibility for complex technical decisions.

• Degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, or equivalent professional experience, with deep knowledge in one discipline and strong working knowledge of the other.

• Demonstrated expertise in critical power and cooling architecture, redundancy, failure-mode analysis and operational risk management.

• Experience reviewing engineering drawings, calculations, commissioning evidence and root-cause analyses, and coordinating technical specialists.

• Ability to influence colocation providers and cross-functional stakeholders; excellent English communication and willingness to travel.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with AI/HPC infrastructure, high-density accelerator platforms and direct-to-chip liquid cooling.

• Knowledge of CDUs, facility-to-technology cooling interfaces, hydraulic performance, cooling-water quality and leak management.

• Experience with electrical protection/selectivity, power quality, controls sequences, integrated systems testing and BMS/EPMS analytics.

• Experience creating technical standards across multiple sites or providers, including design deviations and fleet-wide reliability improvements.

• Professional engineering registration or equivalent technical credentials.

What We Offer

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks.

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