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Equinix

Global data center, colocation, interconnection provider

Experienced Engineer in Critical Data Center Facilities Maintenance

Facilities ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timePantin, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A technical qualification in electricity, electrotechnics, air conditioning, or industrial maintenance.
  • Confirmed experience in similar functions, ideally in a sensitive operating environment.
  • Technical versatility.
  • A good written and spoken level of English sufficient to communicate independently about crisis situations with internal and external stakeholders and write incident reports.
  • Attention to detail and rigor.
  • Ability to communicate with third parties and internal customers.
  • Ability to make proposals and act proactively.

Responsibilities

  • Perform specialized technical repairs on mission-critical data-center systems and use analytical problem-solving techniques to identify causes.
  • Review specialized contractual reports and activities.
  • Oversee site maintenance and upkeep of data-center infrastructure in accordance with global standards.
  • Ensure repairs to data-center infrastructure follow manufacturer guidelines and best practices.
  • Assist with root-cause analysis and repair of specialized failed critical components.
  • Develop solutions from limited information and precedent, adapting existing approaches to resolve issues.
  • Independently evaluate situations and use judgment and interpretation to select a course of action; work is reviewed at critical points.
  • Liaise with design stakeholders on design changes.
  • Build relationships and networks with senior internal and external partners, including advising others on difficult matters and adapting communication to different audiences.
  • Validate design criteria for new principal power installations, such as a single power source.
  • Operate a data center and organize and supervise operations and maintenance tasks involving power production and distribution, cooling and ventilation, fire-protection systems, access control, and associated service-provider coordination.
  • Develop and implement preventive-maintenance schedules with service providers, closely supervise operations to minimize intervention risks, and report on the activity.
  • Perform regular technical inspections and diagnostics of infrastructure equipment.
  • Support internal and external audits.
  • Perform electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic lockout/tagout procedures.
  • Define, establish, and inventory critical spare-parts stocks.
  • Organize, supervise, and validate work performed by outside contractors.
  • Ensure proper operation of building management systems and technical alarms.
  • Manage maintenance service providers.
  • Measure and accurately report capacity status across technical systems.
  • Anticipate the impact of future customer-load changes.
  • Define a continuous energy-performance improvement plan, implement action plans, and measure improvements.
  • Contribute to defining relevant operational reporting indicators and preparing annual budgets, and accurately track budget execution.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with chilled-water and direct-expansion cooling, UPS systems, generators, low- and high-voltage electrical distribution, MV/LV transformers, fire detection, access control, and video surveillance.

About the Company

Equinix

Global data center, colocation, interconnection provider

Equinix provides data center space, colocation, and interconnection services to businesses worldwide. Customers rent space to house servers and use interconnected networks inside Equinix data centers, enabling low-latency data transfer between networks and cloud providers. Unlike competitors that focus only on space, Equinix combines a global footprint with a large ecosystem of over 10,000 customers for direct, high-speed connections. Its goal is to enable fast, reliable digital operations and support customers’ digital transformation and multi-cloud strategies.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Redwood City, CA
Founded
1998

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