Capacity Engineer Senior Associate

Equinix•Miami, FL

3d•$70,000 - $105,000

About The Position

The Capacity Engineer Senior Associate resolves a variety of data management, design, and drawings for installations within a moderate scope. This role involves space planning, design, engineering, problem-solving, data and drawing management, collaboration, and capacity feasibility & optimization. The position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and typically 3+ years of experience in data center capacity planning, facilities engineering, space planning, or mission-critical infrastructure environments. Hands-on experience with AutoCAD, infrastructure documentation, and maintaining capacity or asset management data is essential, along with a working knowledge of data center electrical and mechanical systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering is preferred.
Typically 3+ years of experience in data center capacity planning, facilities engineering, space planning, or mission‑critical infrastructure environments.
Hands-on experience with AutoCAD (or similar CAD tools), infrastructure documentation, and maintaining capacity or asset management data.
Working knowledge of data center electrical and mechanical systems, with the ability to support moderate‑scope design, capacity feasibility, and cross‑functional problem solving.

Responsibilities

Creates standard Cage-Cabinet design options that respond to moderate customer requirements, Equinix requirements and physical site constraints.
Prepares notional Cage-Cabinet layouts, area calculations and diagrams for each individual standard data center within a moderate scope.
Maximizes space utilization to develop the best design solution for the Data Center and the customer.
Utilizes developed knowledge of electrical/mechanical infrastructure to notionally attribute standard Cage-Cabinet designs against Data Center infrastructure within a moderate scope.
Utilizes developing skills in preparing high-density review cases.
Works with more senior members in the validation and updating of Data Center infrastructure data within capacity systems.
Solves standard, cross-functional issues that span multiple groups.
Uses developing skills to identify and understand underlying issues.
Understands when and to whom to escalate.
Works with site operations to address discrepancies with documentation of facility infrastructure and installation of customer cages within a moderate scope.
Ensures that AutoCAD drawings and capacity systems correctly represent existing status of the Data Center within a moderate scope.
Identifies and make corrections as necessary.
Identifies and leads the investigation of moderate data issues with the support of senior staff.
Produces developed drawings and space plans for use by Sales, Site Operation and other teams.
Creates spatial layouts of each customer cage which are used by the other capacity teams for their reviews, and by the Sales Engineers and site teams for customer installations.
Creates numbering plans for new sites, compiling inventory list, and preparing the drawings files used to track assignments.
Compiles as-built underground utility drawings as required to create a comprehensive record drawing for each site within a moderate scope.
Collaborates with various teams to identify any power/cooling issues that affect space capacity.
Answers standard inventory-related questions from cross-functional departments.
Ability to engage and gather input from appropriate stakeholders to reach the right solution for the company and the customer within a moderate scope.
Where planning decisions are in dispute between sales and operational needs, the engineer is expected to escalate to the right level.
May require supervision in answering more complex questions.
Works with Capacity and/or site engineers to identify power and cooling limitations, discuss potential modifications, and develop moderate solutioning.
Acts as the first point of contact for the CFR process to ensure that space is being assigned maximizes the value of our data centers by optimizing the efficiency of our space within a moderate scope.
May require supervision for more complex solutions.