Principal Data Center Electrical Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 5, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 27, 2026. Oracle scores A on the Alion truth index.
The Principal Data Center Electrical Engineer role is essential to supporting Oracle’s growth across Commercial, AI Infrastructure, and Go Big initiatives by ensuring deployment readiness, engineering compliance, and operational reliability. This position is critical to maintaining service delivery standards as Oracle’s data center footprint expands.
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.
Description
- Demonstrated desire and ability to learn, grow, and develop new skills.
- Oversee tenant improvement work associated with white space fit-outs in new data center spaces.
- Promote and reinforce a culture of safety, security, and compliance across all data center activities.
- Maintain a strong understanding of data center Electrical design and operational functionality.
- Partner with design, construction, and commissioning teams to integrate new Electrical systems into existing data centers.
- Support and validate on-site data center operations related to Electrical infrastructure.
- Serve as the Electrical SME for mission critical Electrical systems, operations, and performance.
- Create digitized Electrical distribution templates to support rack placement planning.
- Drive operational optimization and efficiency improvement initiatives.
- Travel requirement: (typically ~25%).
Responsibilities
- Review new sites and proposed fit out designs.
- Ensure Electrical plans are accurate and failover designs meet compliance requirements.
- Develop digitized Electrical models.
- Support supplier led white space fit-out activities.
- Ensure documentation is captured, stored, referenced, and shared with field engineering and operations teams.
- Support engineering investigations into large-scale events.
- Provide support to field engineering teams.
Disclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.