Responsibilities

Responsibilities: Candidate will directly support the global DCE Power Harvest program.  Duties will include, but not be limited to the following:

• Performing detailed analysis of space, power, and cooling to assess power harvesting opportunities
• Collaborating with local site teams to develop site specific power harvesting strategy
• Developing creative solutions to utilize otherwise stranded capacity while keeping all customer services secure
• Seek emerging and proactive opportunities to optimize Microsoft’s installed capacity and increase revenues to the business
• Working with capacity planning teams to mitigate capacity gaps
• Aligning with project execution teams to ensure all work is planned and executed without impact to Microsoft’s critical environment
• Initiate partnerships within the global engineering groups in order to jointly deliver additional cloud capacity
• Develop and follow published organizational and business processes and procedures
• Initiate, understand and contribute to continuous improvement efforts
• Partner with peer organizations in evaluating and selecting appropriate power harvesting opportunities in support of changing demand and in varied and complex conditions
• Be point person responsible for assessing space, power, and cooling to ensure power harvesting activities always keeping customer load prioritized
• Understand network growth strategies, site design constraints, regional limitations and business plans.
• Be able to communicate technical issues, risks and proposed solutions in a concise manner for the consumption of non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Basic:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent technical experience
• Extensive experience in construction / engineering / operation of hyperscale datacenters or similar large scale and complex engineering systems (Pharmaceutical, Micro Electronics are two examples of relevant industries)
• Established understanding of electrical & cooling theory with practical application
• Be knowledgeable in data center design, operation and fit out
• Solid understanding of datacenter design and operation with ability to assess failover modes
• Knowledge of construction techniques, terminology, and documentation (ability to interpret blueprints, electrical one-lines, construction drawings etc.)
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to lead and be proactive
• Excellent problem-solving, judgment, team building, and decision-making skills

Preferred:

• Licensed professional engineer
• Practical experience with building automation and electrical power monitoring systems
• Ability to present using the MS Office Suite; MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint

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