Mission-Critical Facilities Engineer

2 Hours ago • 5 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Mission-Critical Facilities Engineer will join a technical team maintaining global data centers and colocation sites, ensuring 100% uptime. Responsibilities include managing projects, liaising with stakeholders, and overseeing MEP components like switchgear and UPS. The role involves project management, build-out, and fit-out of data centers, requiring a solid understanding of data center functions and technologies and being able to work autonomously. The candidate will need to have 5+ years of experience in mission-critical facilities.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of experience with mission-critical data centers.
  • Experience in project management and operations.
  • Strong communication skills for stakeholder liaison.
  • Familiarity with MEP components.
  • Knowledge of reactive maintenance processes.

Job Details

About the Position

We are looking for an experienced Mission-Critical Facilities Engineer to join a highly technical group responsible for operating and maintaining our rapidly scaling infrastructure within our global data centres and colocation sites.

In this role, you will be responsible for liaising between internal stakeholders and external data centres and colocation service providers to ensure 100% uptime across our critical facilities portfolio. You will also be involved with technical project management and the build out/fit out of our data centres and colocation sites. Knowledge of the interdependencies of data centre functions and technologies is preferred.

We are looking for someone with a proven ability to deliver no matter the task, a solid technical understanding of MEP components and the ability to make well-reasoned engineering decisions as they relate to operational risk. The right candidate for this role will work well autonomously, manage their time exceptionally well and be able to make judgement calls with strong data and reasoning to back them up.

Our team is collaborative in nature, spanning many internal departments and external vendors, contractors, consultants and operations teams. Your specific work will cover all aspects of our complex distributed data centre and colocation environments. 

About You

  • Have 5+ years of experience with the project management, design, commissioning, construction, maintenance and operations of mission-critical data centres, trading floors or similar 24/7 facilities
  • Experienced with managing projects and operations supporting mission-critical facilities; can manage data centre providers and meet problems with creative solutions
  • Strong communicator; able to liaise with internal and external stakeholders as well as describe detailed problems with brevity and accuracy
  • Familiar with MEP components such as Switchgear, UPS, Generator, STS, PDU, RPP, Chillers, CRAH units, VESDA, pre-action and BMS; have an understanding of various levels of redundancy
  • Deeply knowledgeable in reactive maintenance, including the review and supervision of SOPs, EOPs and MOPs
  • Possess a high-level understanding of the IT requirements within a data centre and can liaise with IT groups to gather and assess their build requirements
  • Creative, collaborative and enthusiastic team player who is eager to learn and take initiative
  • Organised; can balance assigned work required for our constantly evolving environments
  • Flexible to work nights and weekends in support of our 24x7x365 operations
  • Willing to travel 4-6 weeks per year and participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical system emergencies
  • Fluent in English

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com. 

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About The Company

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam. We are always recruiting top candidates and we invest heavily in teaching and training. The environment at Jane Street is open, informal, intellectual, and fun. People grow into long careers here because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test.



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