Senior Technical Engineer - DataCentre Facilities
Role Overview
Senior Technical Engineer - Data Centre Facilities in Emirates Group IT.
Provides technical expertise and leads delivery of assigned work packages, ensuring solutions meet business needs and corporate standards.
Solutions must satisfy availability, capacity, continuity, security, performance, and reliability expectations.
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Role overview
Senior Technical Engineer - Data Centre Facilities in Emirates Group IT.
Provides technical expertise and leads delivery of assigned work packages, ensuring solutions meet business needs and corporate standards.
Solutions must satisfy availability, capacity, continuity, security, performance, and reliability expectations.
Responsibilities
- Advise technology teams and lead technical project work packages.
- Design high-quality solutions and architectures aligned with enterprise standards and technical strategy.
- Configure technology monitoring and incident visibility with IT teams.
- Guide solution definition and technical development to agreed requirements, costs, and timelines.
- Resolve incidents, analyse problems, manage changes, and minimise business impact.
- Maintain technical documentation, data catalogues, configuration details, support procedures, operations manuals, and deployment architecture.
- Manage end-of-life equipment and software replacement.
- Translate specifications into programs using enterprise development tools, methods, and languages.
Qualifications and experience
- Degree in Information Technology and at least 5 years of relevant data-centre facilities experience.
- Strong knowledge of critical infrastructure, operations, maintenance, compliance, vendor management, and project management.
- Knowledge of electrical power, cooling, structured cabling, fire and safety, and physical security.
- Knowledge of data-centre systems including UPS, generators, cooling, fire suppression, redundancy, high availability, and Tier classifications.
- Understanding of capacity planning, risk management, preventive and predictive maintenance, incident response, SOPs, MOPs, and monitoring.
- Knowledge of ANSI/TIA-942, relevant ISO standards, local regulations, vendor and contract management, SLAs, energy efficiency, and sustainable practices.
- Mandatory professional certification in data-centre design, operations, or facilities management, such as CDCP, CDCS, CDFOM, CDFOS, Uptime Institute ATD/AOS, or equivalent.
Benefits
- The posting describes tax-free salary and travel benefits, including flight and hotel discounts.
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