Principal Engineering Critical Environment Consultant

Key Responsibilities
Critical Environment Maintenance Support:
-Manages the ongoing critical environment maintenance support for all service lines to pre-defined SLAs to ensure service uptime is maintained to the highest standards and that faults are dealt with promptly.
-Employs practical operating knowledge of engineering systems, including standard diagnostics and repairs.
-Applies knowledge of Oracle processes, procedures, and industry standards to resolve routine issues.
-Offers suggestions for system-level enhancements to reduce potential problems.
-Contributes to testing the suitability of components or action plans for deployments.
Incident Management and Operation Improvement:
-Manages incidents that impact OCI services, proactively addressing root causes in a timely manner.
-Collaborates with design, construction, commissioning, facility engineering, data center operations, health and safety, and compliance teams to integrate new electrical distribution systems to existing data center.
-Empowers operational optimization and efficiency improvement initiatives.
-Ensures alignment of own work with safe working practices.
-Provides expertise during post-incident reviews by conducting root cause analyses, documenting lessons learned, and developing Corrective and Preventive Action Plans (CAPAs) to mitigate recurrence and improve system resilience.
Site Selection and Build:
-Conducts site reviews and assessments in collaboration with other teams to evaluate suitability for data center builds, gathering and analyzing technical, environmental, and infrastructure data to inform decision-making.
-Prepares technical reports to document findings, support recommendations, and communicate results to stakeholders.
-Participates in design reviews and oversees commissioning activities in collaboration with other teams, reviewing data to ensure alignment with engineering standards and project requirements.
-Reviews mechanical simulations (e.g., Computational Fluid Dynamics [CFD] analyses) to assess airflow and thermal performance, identifying design adjustments to improve system efficiency, reliability, and performance.
Data Center Operations Management:
-Supports and validates on-site data centers operations in relation to the electrical or mechanical infrastructure.
-Serves as an electrical or mechanical subject matter expert (SME) for on-site operations related to mission critical electrical systems, operations, and functionality.
-Partners with the colocation providers' engineering teams to ensure electrical or mechanical systems are adequately designed, specified, and installed to deliver robust operation for Oracle.
-Adheres to developed standards and policy through the review of documentation, participates in commissioning activities, design summits, and data center commissioning or reviews.
-Reviews critical impacting changes and represents engineering in change advisory board (CAB) meetings.
Engineering Design, Leadership, and Governance:
-Collaborates with senior team members and supports a project or other design and engineering initiatives.
-Provides engineering insight to ensure project or other design initiatives align with company expectations.
-Coordinates with internal and external project team members in delivering specific aspects of data centers or part-data centers for Oracle.
-Provides input for effective contract administration, including supporting the generation and review of contracts, change orders, cost forecasts, and other pertinent documents.
-Contributes to the development of policy documents by collaborating with team members.
-Contributes to the creation and upkeep of best-in-class policies and procedures, participating in their review as necessary.
-Prepares technical reports to document findings, communicate progress, and support project or design decision-making.
Training and Knowledge Sharing:
-Contributes to the identification of training programs for newer members of the team.
-Acts as a subject matter expert with many standard systems and trains others on the team.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately-sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.
Problem Solving:
-Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices. Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies.
Continuous Learning:
-Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices. Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills. Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.
Continuous Improvement:
-Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement.
Performance and Development:
-Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.