Project Engineer (Data Center Infrastructure)

About the role

The Data Center Project Engineer - Data Center Field Engineering (Lead Level) is a senior technical delivery role responsible for the design, implementation, and oversight of physical infrastructure and networking systems within enterprise and colocation data centers. Reporting to the Data Center Field Engineering Practice Lead, this role provides end-to-end ownership of complex deployments-ranging from structured cabling and fiber plant design to high-performance data center networking infrastructure.

This engineer serves as a key technical leader on the ground, managing implementation efforts, field crews, and project engineering tasks while ensuring that solutions meet technical, operational, and customer standards. The role bridges design and delivery, working closely with project managers, integration teams, and customer stakeholders.

What you'll be doing

• Technical Leadership & Delivery Governance

Serve as the senior technical lead for all structured cabling. Rack deployment and networking / fiber aspects of data center deployments.

Manage technical delivery across all project phases :

Design : Site surveys, rack elevations, BOMs, network patch schedules, and cabling matrices.

Direct and mentor onsite field teams including rack build technicans, low voltage technicians, cabling installers, and subcontractors.

Support installation and connectivity of core / aggregation / leaf switches, firewalls, routers, and optical transport systems.

Develop and maintain comprehensive engineering documentation including :

Rack elevations

Interface with customer technical teams, consultants, PMO, integration centers, and vendors.

Data Center Networking : Core / leaf / spine architectures, Cisco Nexus / Meraki, Arista, Juniper, Palo Alto.

What you have

BICSI Technician, RCDD

What you can expect

There's so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We're a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 20,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country's best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. www.computacenter.com / us