Capacity Engineer Senior Associate

Capacity Engineer Senior Associate
**Who are we?**

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 200+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

We are a fast-growing global company with 70+ consecutive quarters of growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of nearly 10,000 companies, including 1,800+ networks and 2,900+ cloud and IT service providers in over 26 countries spanning five continents.

Joining our operations team means that you will be at the forefront of all we do, maintaining critical facilities infrastructure as part of a close-knit team delivering best in class service to our data center customers. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

**Job Summary**:
The Capacity Engineer Senior Associate resolves a variety of data management, design, and drawings for installations within a moderate scope.

**Responsibilities**

**Space Planning & Design**
- Creates standard Cage-Cabinet design options that respond to moderate customer requirements, Equinix requirements and physical site constraints
- Prepares notional Cage-Cabinet layouts, area calculations and diagrams for each individual standard data center within a moderate scope
- Maximizes space utilization to develop the best design solution for the IBX and the customer

**Engineering**
- Utilizes developed knowledge of electrical/mechanical infrastructure to notionally attribute standard Cage-Cabinet designs against IBX infrastructure within a moderate scope
- Utilizes developing skills in preparing high-density review cases
- Works with more senior members in the validation and updating of IBX infrastructure data within capacity systems

**Problem Solving**
- Solves standard, cross-functional issues that span multiple groups
- Uses developing skills to identify and understand underlying issues
- Understands when and to whom to escalate

**Data & Drawing Management**
- Works with site operations to address discrepancies with documentation of facility infrastructure and installation of customer cages within a moderate scope
- Ensures that AutoCAD drawings and capacity systems correctly represent existing status of the IBX within a moderate scope
- Identifies and make corrections as necessary
- Identifies and leads the investigation of moderate data issues with the support of senior staff
- Produces developed drawings and space plans for use by Sales, Site Operation and other teams
- Creates spatial layouts of each customer cage which are used by the other capacity teams for their reviews, and by the Sales Engineers and site teams for customer installations
- Drawing and inventory preparation, which may be reviewed by more senior members
- Creates numbering plans for new sites, compiling inventory list, and preparing the drawings files used to track assignments
- Compiles as-built underground utility drawings as required to create a comprehensive record drawing for each site within a moderate scope

**Collaboration**
- Collaborates with various teams to identify any power/cooling issues that affect space capacity
- Answers standard inventory-related questions from cross-functional departments
- Ability to engage and gather input from appropriate stakeholders to reach the right solution for the company and the customer within a moderate scope
- Where planning decisions are in dispute between sales and operational needs, the engineer is expected to escalate to the right level
- May require supervision in answering more complex questions

**Capacity Feasibility & Optimization**
- Works with Capacity and/or site engineers to identify power and cooling limitations, discuss potential modifications, and develop moderate solutioning
- Acts as a the first point of contact for the CFR process to ensure that space is being assigned maximizes the value of our data centers by optimizing the efficiency of our space within a moderate scope
- May require supervision for more complex solutions

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**Qualifications**
- 3+ years experience preferred
- Bachelor's preferred

**U.S. ONLY - EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a