Controls Engineer

THE COMPANY:

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.The Position STACK is seeking a Controls Engineer to join our Technical Operations team and support the construction, operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of BMS and EPMS systems across our portfolio of data centers. This career-level technical role independently executes assigned controls engineering work, makes technical recommendations within established standards, and contributes to portfolio projects that improve the consistency, reliability, and performance of monitoring and control systems.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Develop a comprehensive understanding of mechanical and electrical sequences of operations and BMS/EPMS programming across the portfolio

Develop technical recommendations and execute assigned work to standardize and optimize BMS programming and system design, driving consistency across sites within established Controls standards

Analyze alarm trends, energy consumption, water usage, and controls performance data; develop findings and recommendations that inform operational decisions and assigned improvement initiatives

Lead assigned technical work streams for system integration, commissioning, and turnover of advanced BMS/EPMS platforms in collaboration with vendors, contractors, Engineering, Development, IT, and Critical Operations Ensure proper metering for accurate PUE/WUE measurement, reporting, and energy optimization

Provide technical leadership for assigned troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and emergency-response work streams for controls-related events; recommend corrective and preventive actions within established Controls governance

Partner with STACK’s IT team, monitoring and control vendors, Engineering, Development, and data center Critical Operations teams to plan and deliver assigned portfolio controls projects that enhance system functionality and reliability.

Partner with STACK’s Development Team and general contractors to verify turnover packages and coordinate training for end users of monitoring and control systems

Lead assigned technical training and turnover work streams for end users, coordinating activities and deliverables to support successful project completion

Ability to communicate to engineering and non-engineering teams throughout the STACK organization

The Details

Location:

Gainesville, Virginia Comensation: $145,000 - $170,000 + 10% Target Bonus Travel:
Average 15%, up to 25%
Must be eligible to work in the United States Must pass comprehensive background screening

Must-Have Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, or Controls) or equivalent experience5+ years of experience with building automation and industrial control systems, particularly in mission-critical or data center environments

Experience with hyperscale data center operations and modular data center designs

Advanced expertise with Ignition SCADA and Delta control systems

Proficiency in additional BMS/EPMS platforms such as Alerton, Honeywell, Phoenix Contact, Schneider, Siemens, etc. Vendor certifications preferred

Experience with Microsoft Office products

Familiarity with industrial protocols, including BACnet, Modbus, SNMP, MQTT, OPC UA and system integration strategies

Working knowledge of redundant power distribution systems and critical power infrastructure

Working knowledge of virtualized environments, SQL databases, time series databases (e.g., InfluxDB), and authentication mechanisms such as OAuth, LDAP, and SAMLExperience with fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) tools and cloud-based analytics solutions

Must be willing to work outside normal business hours, including weekends, late nights, holidays, and on-call support

Must be comfortable working in a high stress, fast paced environment with shifting priorities

Fundamental knowledge of network design and TCP/IP networks to support system connectivity and integration

Familiarity with advanced EPMS…