Principal Data Center Facilities Engineer

Principal Data Center Facilities Engineer

United States

Data Center Facility Senior Engineers are essential to driving data center growth and advancing liquid-to-chip solutions. As our facility engineering operations expand, the need for senior engineering expertise remains critical to providing technical leadership within the Data Center Operations Department. Our Cloud Data Centers are strategic assets, and we are seeking a senior technical leader with a strong background in electrical, mechanical, and controls systems, change management, as well as experience in administering and maintaining mission‑critical environments.

The primary focus of this role is to support the deployment of new capacity, represent operations during due diligence and design phases, and establish processes and standards. This position will also collaborate with colocation providers to ensure compliance with engineering specifications to drive reliability, safety, compliance, and efficiency across global sites.

This role delivers crucial, ongoing engineering support—including corrective and preventive actions, large‑scale events, and other engineering investigations. Filling this position is vital to upholding Oracle’s standards for service delivery, compliance, and operational excellence across our expanding product lines.

Oracle’s Data Center Facility Engineering team is seeking a senior engineer to provide technical support for data center operations. The successful candidate must be highly self‑directed, able to travel to onsite locations, and possess strong experience in data center design and critical infrastructure operations. Exceptional customer focus and effective collaboration with internal data center teams and business partners are essential for this role.

Key Responsibilities

Critical Environment Maintenance Support:

• Define and govern enterprise standards for preventive and predictive maintenance across electrical, mechanical, liquid‑to‑chip, and life‑safety systems; ensure consistent execution and documentation across all sites.

Lead advanced diagnostics for systemic reliability issues; drive remediation programs that eliminate recurring failure modes and materially improve site availability and energy efficiency.

Set performance targets and reliability KPIs; establish dashboards and audits to validate adherence to SLAs and regulatory requirements.

Incident Management and Operation Improvement:

• Lead high‑severity incident response across regions; coordinate rapid stabilization, stakeholder communications, and executive updates; ensure durable corrective and preventive actions are implemented at scale.
• Institutionalize standardized root cause analysis (RCA) methodologies and CAPA governance; track cross‑site action closure and effectiveness.

Site Commissioning and Build:

• Spearheads collaboration with design, construction, facility engineering, and operations teams to validate designs, influence decision‑making to integrate new systems with existing infrastructure and tooling alignment with operations objectives.
• Lead technical oversight for site assessments, design reviews, uptime requirements, commissioning strategy, and integrated systems testing on high‑priority builds and retrofits.
• Approve commissioning documentation and acceptance criteria; validate performance against design intent, reliability targets, and maintainability standards before handover.

Data Center Operations Management:

• Serve as principal SME for complex and novel scenarios in operations of mission‑critical systems (power, cooling, BAS, fire/life safety)
• Acts as a senior engineering reviewer as needed and supports the Engineering Change Advisory Board (CAB) process, ensuring changes are assessed, approved, and implemented in alignment with operational risk and change management protocols.
• Govern operational procedures, MOP/SOP/EOP standards, and access controls; ensure safe work practices and audit readiness across all facilities.
• Align operations with capacity, performance, and sustainability objectives; oversee optimization initiatives that reduce PUE, improve utilization, and control operating costs.
• Provides SME…