Critical Facility Engineer

Who we are:

Where performance meets sustainability, Digital Edge is a leading data center platform in Asia Pacific, delivering sustainable, next-generation, AI-ready digital infrastructure at scale. Headquartered in Singapore and backed by Stonepeak, we operate a rapidly expanding platform with over 30 data centers and 1.8GW of secured IT power across key markets.

Our mission is to build the foundation for the world’s digital future, helping organizations to grow sustainably and empowering the populations they serve. We differentiate through execution – delivering at speed and at scale while combining global standards with deep local expertise. This enables us to provide consistent, sustainable and high-performance infrastructure for hyperscalers and enterprises across the region.

As Asia Pacific’s digital transformation accelerates, Digital Edge is building the infrastructure that powers the next wave of AI and cloud growth. Joining Digital Edge means being part of a high-growth platform at the forefront of AI and cloud infrastructure, where you can make a tangible impact on Asia-Pacific’s digital future.

Our values:

- Respect: We embrace diversity and collaboration.

- Innovation: We share ideas and solve problems.

- Strive: We are driven and determined.

- Excellence: We seek to deliver the best.

- Responsibility: We do what’s right for our people and the planet.

What we need:

Reporting to the Facility Manager, this role is accountable for the operations, maintenance, planning and documentation of DC operations procedures and associated mission critical infrastructures toward the most efficient and maximum utilization of facilities, equipment, and operational resources. As a key member of the Operations Team, the candidate will support mentoring practices for engineering staff to ensure continuity of training and quality results. This ensures effective up - time of the facilities, lower possible PUE, quality contractor and project activities and required maintenance.

This role will be based in Incheon, Korea.

Key responsibilities:

- Maintain the DC Critical Electrical, Cooling, Fire Protection and Building Management System (BMS) infrastructure per manufacturers’ recommendation and corporate specifications

- Supervise operational maintenance work and renewal construction work with vendors

- Manage routine maintenance and emergency services, scheduling on a variety of critical systems, such as electrical facility, mechanical facility, security system and fire system

- Establish documentation of SOP, MOP, EOP and required documents related to the DE’s DC facility operation and management

- On-call emergency response and support as necessary to maintain the highest level of integrity and availability for building systems, electrical infrastructure efficiency and lowest possible PUE

- Set up MEP maintenance and monitoring policy

- Interface with building management systems and other automated tools and applications to ensure operational efficiencies and energy improvement

- Work directly with the customer and/or support staff to identify and troubleshoot as necessary to isolate the root cause of problems

- Liaise with global team on global initiatives as well as process and procedures, implement those initiatives locally in Korea

- Actively champion and implement policies and procedures for occupational health & safety in the workplace, information security management, environmental management systems; incident management; and comply with all legal regulatory requirements of the organization

The successful candidate:

- Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent skills

- More than 5 years of work experience in supporting a 24x7 data center’s facility management

- Electrical, Fire or Mechanical engineer certification is preferred

- Extensive operational knowledge of electrical distribution (e.g. switch gear, transformers, automatic transfer switch, UPS, STS, D RUPS , battery management systems, generators, and PDUs to the branch level), cooling system, fire protection and building management system

- Ability to respond to facility-related emergencies in a timely manner with sound recovery plans

- Effective communication skills with the ability to successfully interact with both internal and external customers

- Strong project management, trouble-shooting and organizational skills

- Experience in telecommunications / digital infrastructure sectors is beneficial

- Good command in spoken and written English

- A team player willing to be hands-on in a dynamic and fast paced environment

Join us to shape the future of Digital Infrastructure in Asia. Apply now for a confidential career discussion.