Data Center Consultant, Critical Facilities Operations and Maintenance

Company Description

This is a remote role and the candidate can sit anywhere in the US.

Position: Senior Data Center Consultant

EYP Mission Critical Facilities, part of Ramboll Americas Engineering, is an innovator and a market leader in sustainable Data Center Consulting & Strategy, Design, and Commissioning with a 25-year history of excellence in the industry.   Numerous Fortune 500 companies, top tier universities, and global data center providers/investors, rely on EYP MCF to provide responsive solutions to today’s complex data center challenges.

The Consulting groups core focus is to provide data center strategy analysis with the expertise to address the clients forward mission goals inclusive of their IT and Network architecture.  The end goal is developing a data center sourcing solution for our client to use existing facilities, colocation services, cloud serv ices, or build new facilities. This includes developing a new data center topology, reliability and redundancy needs, and associated financial analysis for decision support requirements.  Our growing team depends on motivated professionals with a flexible skill set and the ability to provide often unique, critical thinking to address the ever-changing landscape of data center design and operations. 

Summary of Job Role and Responsibilities

 The ideal Senior team member will provide leadership in many areas but specific to this position is the ability to support the analysis of data center infrastructure as part of our strategy development projects.

The skill sets are broken into 4 categories, Electrical, Mechanical, Operations, and Master Planning. The successful candidate must have these skills for the accurate completion of various data center “due diligence” tasks as part of an overall team conducting a data center strategy analysis for our client.

Electrical

• Must be fully competent in the skills required to correctly interpret electrical one-line drawings reflecting facility electrical systems from utility to point of distribution in a mission critical space(s) (raised floor computer room).
• Must be able to correctly determine the loading concept of redundant systems and accurately calculate the maximum load capability based on the redundant concept presently deployed in the facility.
• Be completely familiar with industry standard redundancy ratings and the requirements to obtain each level.
• Ability to collect and record operational data from electrical including utility meters, electrical switchboards, circuit breakers, UPS systems, power distribution units, control panels, generators, transfer switches, and facility infrastructure metering stations.
• Be able to analyze infrastructure designs and identify them down to component levels for purposes of categorizing and identifying typical mission critical facility design approaches as practiced in the industry.
• Must a complete knowledge of basic reliability concepts of redundancy, Mean Time Between Failure, Mean Time To Repair, availability, reliability, maintainability, concurrent maintainability, downtime, as they apply to electrical systems employed to develop highly reliable facility infrastructures.
• Possess the skills required to assess the condition and success of maintenance processes employed on UPS systems, UPS high power battery systems, Power Distribution Units (PDU) and all ancillary equipment providing conditioned power in mission critical buildings.
•  Ability to evaluate the condition of and maintenance processes employed in operating and maintaining electrical distribution systems including transformers, switches, switchgear, bus ducts, power cabling and power distribution units.
•  Ability to evaluate and assess the condition and maintenance processes employed for high availability standby power systems including generators, flywheels, transfer switches and static transfer switches.
• Fully familiar with electrical grounding systems along with a basic understanding of lightening protection systems.
• Ability to identify single points of failure in mission critical electrical infrastructure systems and recommend valid risk mitigation steps to minimize the impact from a failure at the identified points.
• Identify adverse energy usage patterns and practices in facility infrastructure equipment and recommend viable strategies to reduce energy consumption related to the findings identified.
•  Ability to perform base power calculations from observed or supplied data:  i.e., power (in kilowatts), cooling (in tons or kilowatts), KVA, power factors, power per area (watts per square foot or meter).

Mechanical

• Must be fully competent in the skills required to correctly interpret a mechanical one-line drawin