Job Description
Sr. Systems Engineer (Data Center Services)
5 Days Onsite: 3750 Atherton Road, Rocklin, CA
6+ months
Duties/Day to Day Overview
Design and support data networks for data centers, corporate facilities, retail stores, distribution centers, call centers, and eCommerce environment. Design, develop, implement, and support network solutions for IT projects.
- Define, implement, and maintain enterprise standards for data center physical infrastructure, including rack design, power distribution, cooling, cabling, labeling, and deployment practices.
- Engineer and optimize data center capabilities across power capacity, cooling performance, environmental controls, rack utilization, cabling integrity, and deployment readiness.
- Lead preventive maintenance planning, capacity planning, failover validation, and standards-based implementation efforts across supported data center environments.
- Drive operational improvements for power, cooling, space, and infrastructure efficiency using data from DCIM, monitoring, and asset management platforms.
- Lead complex rack layout, hardware installation, cabling, remediation, relocation, and decommissioning efforts in accordance with engineering and safety standards.
- Establish and improve documentation standards for rack elevations, cable maps, port assignments, power allocation, implementation records, maintenance procedures, and operational runbooks.
- Partner with facilities teams to support environmental stability, maintenance coordination, HVAC issue resolution, and efficiency improvements across data center sites.
- Collaborate closely with server, storage, network, security, and production support teams to ensure integrated planning and execution across the technology stack.
- Provide technical leadership during incidents, infrastructure events, maintenance windows, and root-cause investigations related to data center services.
- Coordinate vendor work, review scopes of work, validate implementation quality, and help ensure compliance with operational and safety requirements.
- Evaluate new tools, technologies, and design approaches related to data center operations, monitoring, asset visibility, and environmental performance.
- Provide data-driven recommendations on infrastructure health, operational risk, capacity constraints, and modernization opportunities.
Top Requirements
(Must haves)
- Participates and documents systems requirements and authors solution designs
- Reviews and provides feedback for system design solutions that will impact their area
- Participates in establishing strategies and standards
- Creates and manages system capacity plans
- Leads, or participates, in installation and configuration activities
- Develops and maintains procedures and system documentation
- Performs systems resource optimization activities
- Leads, or participates, in major updates supporting new requirements and maintaining systems currency
- Leads or participates in implementation of resources management and monitoring methods, tools and threshold
- Works on many phases of a project or entire projects of moderate complexity
- Oversees monitoring, system access and resource administration
- Participates in systems management, and Security Compliance activities
- Supports resolution of production incidents
- Routinely monitors all systems within their domain
- Accountable for team dependencies and critical paths
- Provides work breakdown planning and estimation
- Reviews and evaluates the team's estimates
- Their work and others they may oversee within their domain
- Identifies feature and module dependencies
- Proposes mitigation plans for identified risks and problems
- Accountable for team dependencies and critical paths
- Anticipates risks and provides contingency solutions and timelines
- Collects useful metrics and targets for domain
- Suggests process improvements and best practices
- Measurably improves processes and best practices to achieve goals
- May research new technologies and methods, collaborating on solutions for multiple teams and features
- Innovates measureable improvements
- Stabilizes emerging technologies
- Interacts with business users, and/or functional peer group and managers
- Works with contract resources, providing guidance and assessing the quality of work
- Assess the quality of work and effectiveness of the agreement with contract resource arrangement
- Sphere of influence is team
- Actively shares knowledge (technical and professional) through shared resources and informal teachings
- Contributes and enforces best practices
- Inspires teamwork and guides the team
- Assists in career development plans for engineers
- Mentors, cross trains co-workers within area of expertise
- Improves others productivity
- Participates in staff recruiting
- Self directing and provides direction for others
- Achieves team consent and buy-in
Job Tags
Contract work, Relocation