Data Center Facilities Engineer
Minnesota$45k - $57kfull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Critical Infrastructure Engineer focused on uptime and operational readiness of Nebius data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure, bridging IT and facilities teams to ensure safe, compliant, and reliable delivery of power and cooling for high-density GPU environments.
Responsibilities
- Help ensure the availability and operational readiness of the electrical and mechanical infrastructure supporting production data halls and high-density GPU environments.
- Monitor critical infrastructure performance against contractual SLAs, operational requirements, and reliability standards.
- Develop understanding of the complete power and cooling path supporting IT equipment and identify operational risk conditions.
- Review infrastructure capacity, redundancy, and operating conditions to reliably support current and planned compute deployments.
- Identify infrastructure risks and drive corrective actions with service providers and internal teams before impact to production.
- Support infrastructure planning for data center expansions, capacity increases, and new GPU deployments.
- Provide technical oversight of data center electrical infrastructure including generator plants, ATS, UPS, batteries, switchgear, PDUs, and related equipment.
- Understand electrical distribution from facility-level to rack-level delivery and IT equipment.
- Participate in technical reviews involving power capacity, distribution, equipment sizing, redundancy, and design.
- Work with electrical engineers and providers to validate changes before production implementation.
- Understand cooling architecture including water/glycol loops, RDHx, evaporative systems, chillers, and cooling pathways for high-density environments.
- Evaluate cooling interactions with GPU systems and high-density racks to maintain operating conditions.
- Partner with mechanical engineers and providers to review system performance and proposed changes.
- Identify thermal or cooling risks affecting compute availability or capacity.
- Provide governance over third-party critical infrastructure and colocation providers.
- Ensure provider activities comply with Nebius policies, SLAs, and requirements.
- Review and approve change requests impacting production infrastructure.
- Ensure testing, rollback, risk analysis, and stakeholder communication are in place before work begins.
- Maintain governance around maintenance and infra changes.
- Hold providers accountable for corrective actions and performance.
- Coordinate incident response with providers and IT/Networking teams.
- Support root-cause analysis for power, cooling, or infra incidents.
- Document corrective actions and improve emergency procedures and change-control standards.
- Identify recurring risks and drive reliability improvements.
- Collaborate with Data Center IT teams to understand impact on servers, networking, GPU clusters, and production systems.
- Support cross-functional troubleshooting where root cause spans IT and facility infra.
- Create alignment between IT infrastructure and electrical/mechanical teams.
- Translate infra conditions and incidents into clear reports for leadership.
- Develop reports, dashboards, and analyses on uptime, capacity, incidents, and provider performance.
- Participate in leadership meetings as a subject-matter expert for data center critical infrastructure.
Qualifications
- Experience in data center, cloud infrastructure, colocation, or mission-critical environments.
- Understanding of IT infrastructure including servers, racks, networking, cabling, and fiber.
- Knowledge of data center electrical infrastructure: UPS, generators, switchgear, PDUs, batteries, breakers, power distribution.
- Exposure to data center mechanical and cooling systems (chilled-water, glycol, liquid-cooling, etc.).
- Ability to understand impact of electrical/mechanical infra on IT availability and performance.
- Experience with infrastructure change management, incident response, operational risk management, or maintenance governance.
- Ability to review technical plans, ask engineering questions, identify risk, and collaborate with subject-matter experts.
- Strong analytical skills with Excel for reporting and metrics.
- Strong written and verbal communication with engineers, vendors, service providers, and leadership.
- Proactive, ownership-driven approach for high-availability production environment.
Skills
Required:Data center infrastructure governanceIncident response and root-cause analysis
Benefits
- Health Insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees and families.
- 401(k) Plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting.
- Parental Leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers.
- Disability & Life Insurance: Company-paid short-term, long-term, and life insurance.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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