Senior Electrical Engineer

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Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet. A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact. You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Job Summary Mentors junior engineers. Performs the planning, system design, system implementation, system maintenance and support. Leads small to medium scale projects and the roll out of engineering initiatives. Assists with development and implementation of engineering design standards, policies and procedures. Effectively interacts with other internal and external teams, including the design engineering, site engineering, construction management and regional operations teams, onsite support vendors and consultants on projects, policies and procedures.

Plans and directs day to day operations and strategic direction of delivery of either a construction project or delivery of operations for an Data Center facility.

Responsibilities Operational Support & MOP Reviews  (primary focus)
Review and approve MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs for critical electrical activities within a defined SLA (target: 5 business days) — validating technical accuracy, sequencing, redundancy impact, abort/back-out provisions, and LOTO and arc-flash requirements before work proceeds on live infrastructure

Assess each activity's impact on system redundancy (N, N+1, 2N), identifying and mitigating single points of failure and loss-of-redundancy windows created during maintenance and switching

Provide subject-matter expertise for critical switching — utility transfers, generator and paralleling-switch gear operations, UPS maintenance-bypass sequences, static transfer switch (STS) operations, and MV/LV distribution switching

Serve as the electrical escalation point for operations, supporting real-time troubleshooting and decision-making during planned maintenance, non-routine work, and abnormal conditions

Review equipment maintenance procedures and vendor scopes against OEM and NETA requirements; support commissioning and integrated systems testing (IST) following maintenance, replacement, or capacity changes

Incident Response & Root Cause Analysis Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for electrical incidents, near-misses, and anomalies across UPS, generators, switch gear, and distribution; drive corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to closure

Analyze EPMS/DCIM and power-quality data to surface failure precursors and reliability trends, feeding lessons learned back into procedures, standards, and design

System Operation and Work Practices (including Capacity Planning)
Expert operating knowledge of engineering systems to include advanced diagnostics and repairs

Ability to apply knowledge of Equinix processes and procedures and industry standards to resolve non-routine issues (i.e., understands the historical background of how equipment settings were standardized and recommend changes to settings when an issue occurs which requires a setting to be changed, consider impacts of changes on regional level while working with the global team)
Utilizes safe working practices at an expert level (e.g. can apply procedure for lockout/tag out, can explain MSDS, etc.)Evaluates and assures the safe working practices of others

Interacts with other engineering, design and construction disciplines

Works with the capacity and site…