Qualifications Required
Relevant Degree (BSC Electrical or BSC Mechanical or N-Dip / BTech Electrical with PR Tech or PR Eng.)
Medium Voltage Certification (Optional)
Switching Certification (Optional)
Beneficial certification :
CDCDPor up toCDCDE, ATD and CDFOM
OEM Certifications (APC, Emerson, etc Certified Data Centre Design Engineer and relevant product certification i.e. DCIM, UPS, Cooling, etc) are beneficial
MDP or Management Training
JBCC or equivalent Contract Certification
Wireless Certification
Structured Cabling Systems Certification
At least 5-10 years relevant industrial and commercial experience with a Data Center Infrastructureskill set
At least 2 years experience in BMS or Scada or PLC Controllers
5 years Designand Consulting experience with preferably Data Centre Infrastructure and ICT environment
Industry experience and certification preferably and certifications in building automation and electronic low voltage systems.
Duties and Responsibilities
Analyses, specifies, updates and makes available specifications to implement designed solutions in accordance with the customer needs.
Selects appropriate technical options optimising the balance between costs,quality, energy efficiency, availability, scalability and standards.
Identifies change requirements and the components involved.
Maintains alignment between business evolution and technology developments.
Plans, supervises and implements research methodologies and procedures to apply principles of electrical theory to electrical data centre engineering projects
Responsible for providing capital project programs for new equipment or major repairs.
Authorizes budgets, estimating labour, material and construction costs
Plans, supervises and implements research and methodologies, and procedures to apply principles of engineering theory to data centre engineering and projects
Use relevant business cases and technical knowledge of ICT infrastructure to personalize a credible solution in line with the clients needs and identify and create demand for solutions that drive sales.
Develop and drive sales engagement to identify key clients and actively target client segments.
Set commercial and other objectives, drive the achievement of these objectives and reports against these objectives.
Plan layout of infrastructure and plant design and commercialization
Data centre plant infrastructure
Oversee project production efforts to assure projects are completed on time within budget
Prepare specification for purchasing of material and equipment
Investigate and test vendors and competitors products
Investigate customers of data centre operations complains, determine nature extent of problems (e.g. failures or single point of failures, etc.)
Recommend remedial measures to the facility and data centre management
Integrate systems with renewable energy systems to improve the overall efficiency of the facility and data centre
Full spec will be provided.
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Solution Architect • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa