Principal Data Center Electrical Engineer

Oracle•United States,

4d•$102,300 - $209,500

About The Position

Support the design, deployment, maintenance, and operation of mission-critical electrical infrastructure across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centers. The role provides electrical engineering expertise, oversees tenant improvements and white space fit-outs, and partners with internal teams and colocation providers to maintain service availability, improve operational efficiency, and ensure compliance with engineering and safety standards. The position supports critical-environment maintenance, incident management, site selection and builds, data center operations, engineering design and governance, and training. It reviews proposed sites and fit-out designs, validates electrical plans and failover compliance, develops digitized electrical models and distribution templates for rack-placement planning, and supports supplier-led fit-outs and field engineering teams. The role also contributes to incident investigations, technical reports, commissioning, operational improvements, and training. Travel is typically approximately 25%.

Responsibilities

Manage critical-environment maintenance support to defined SLAs, helping maintain service uptime and promptly address faults.
Apply practical knowledge of engineering systems, diagnostics, repairs, Oracle procedures, and industry standards to resolve routine issues.
Suggest system-level enhancements and contribute to testing components or deployment action plans.
Manage incidents affecting OCI services, address root causes, conduct root-cause analyses, document lessons learned, and develop corrective and preventive action plans.
Collaborate with design, construction, commissioning, facility engineering, data center operations, health and safety, and compliance teams to integrate electrical distribution systems into existing data centers.
Drive operational optimization and efficiency improvements while following safe working practices and promoting safety, security, and compliance.
Review sites and proposed fit-out designs, assess site suitability, and prepare technical reports to document findings and recommendations.
Review electrical plans for accuracy and ensure failover designs meet compliance requirements.
Participate in design reviews and oversee commissioning activities to verify alignment with engineering standards and project requirements.
Review mechanical simulations, including CFD analyses, to assess airflow and thermal performance and identify design adjustments.
Support and validate on-site data center operations related to electrical infrastructure and serve as the electrical subject matter expert for mission-critical systems, operations, and performance.
Partner with colocation providers’ engineering teams to ensure systems are appropriately designed, specified, and installed.
Review documentation, participate in commissioning activities and design summits, and represent engineering in change advisory board meetings for critical changes.
Oversee tenant-improvement work and support supplier-led white space fit-outs in new data center spaces.
Develop digitized electrical models and distribution templates to support rack-placement planning.
Ensure documentation is captured, stored, referenced, and shared with field engineering and operations teams.
Support engineering investigations into large-scale events and provide support to field engineering teams.
Coordinate internal and external project team members and contribute engineering insight to data center projects and design initiatives.
Support contract administration, including generation and review of contracts, change orders, cost forecasts, and related documents.
Contribute to the development, review, and maintenance of policies and procedures.
Contribute to identifying training programs, act as a subject matter expert on standard systems, and train other team members.