About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equity, respect and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another’s experience.

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Innovation Engineering Department 

The global Innovation team curates efficient and agile, global strategies and multi-regional solutions to enable rapid, quality deployments through consistent and scalable products across Vantage’s companywide portfolio. We collaborate with a wide breadth of global peer functions as well as regional teams including Construction, Design, Sales, Operations, and management along the way. We recognize that continuous learning and development requires a culture of openness, transparency, and trust; we are dedicated to investing in channels for collaboration that encourage our team members to amplify their individual ideas and impact. We believe in the power of data and technology to drive progress, and we invest in the tools and resources that will help us stay ahead of the curve. By embracing innovation, we cultivate meaningful and lasting impact for the company, shareholders and team members. 

Position Overview 

This role can be based in Denver, CO or Remote. #LI-Remote

Vantage is looking for an ambitious, meticulous, hands-on Senior SCADA Specialist to support standardization and optimization of Industrial Automation design for Vantage facilities. Primarily focusing on SCADA Architecture utilizing Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform, establishing a foundational quality product that is scalable, repeatable, and forward-looking for new technologies and methodologies. With a customer service mindset, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams including regional Automation Systems, IT, Cybersecurity, and Engineering teams for enterprise-wide creation of standards and prototypical design to be deployed & owned by the regional teams. 

Essential Job Functions 

Global Standards and Templates: 

• Author and maintain global automation standards and templates, including SCADA software specifications, SCADA architecture topologies, and detailed design specification templates, etc. 

• Develop and document new, prototypical SCADA applications and features that are modular, easily scalable, and deployable with minimal direction. 

• Create standardized prototype Automation requirements, guidelines, and templates to include SCADA Architecture, Network Topology, and IT/OT data mapping for new data centers based on prototype builds. 

• Optimize OT Data Transfer to support increased data center efficiency and sustainability, including but not limited to, application of machine learning. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration: 

• Collaborate with regional peers, solutions engineering, and external customer partners to ensure encapsulation and application of customer requirements, lessons learned, and improvements to developed standards and prototypes. 

• Collaborate with Design Engineering, Automation Systems, IT, Cybersecurity, and Construction teams during prototype development. 

• Work with multi-functional partners in support controls and automation-driven customer billing, reporting, and notifications. 

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