Senior Automation System Engineer

🕒 May 7

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $135k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Vantage Data Centers

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

🏢 Enterprise

Enterprise

Vantage Data Centers is a company specializing in the design, development, and operation of highly flexible and scalable data centers. These data centers cater to hyperscalers, cloud providers, and large enterprises, offering state-of-the-art facilities across 5 continents and 21 markets. Vantage focuses on providing large-scale campuses that enable customers to grow steadily, with over 23 million square feet dedicated to data center space and 2. 6GW+ of power capacity. Committed to sustainability and efficiency, Vantage ensures 100% uptime with standardized designs offering predictability and performance. The company is backed by prominent investors such as DigitalBridge Group and Silver Lake, maintaining a strong financial standing and excellent customer satisfaction rates.

📋 Description

• Support and maintain graphics, UDT, and PLC code repositories, including change management, version control practices, and controlled release into production environments • Coordinate with internal Automation Engineering stakeholders, project teams, and contractors to ensure alignment with company goals, standards, and critical continuous improvement initiatives • Drive, develop, and manage automation standards, architecture guidelines, SOPs, and user documentation supporting both regional and portfolio-wide needs • Design and evolve automation architectures, data models, UDT frameworks, and reusable logic to support new construction and sustaining operations • Support development, testing, and controlled deployment of new automation applications and updates • Provide development-focused support during commissioning activities, including validation of software functionality, alarming behavior, and data integrity • Collaborate with Design, Engineering, Construction, Reliability Engineering, Site Operations, and Automation Engineering peers to deliver and sustain reliable automation solutions • Act as an escalation and advisory resource for complex automation issues impacting live, mission-critical systems • Develop automation logic and visualization applications based on project documentation including drawings, sequences of operation, bills of material, and instrumentation diagrams • Design and maintain Ignition gateway architectures, including redundancy, performance, and long-term maintainability considerations • Promote abstraction, reuse, and standardization of automation logic across the portfolio • Provide technical leadership to integration team members and staff augmentation resources without direct people management responsibility

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of the Ignition (Inductive Automation) SCADA platform is required • Five years of experience in industrial automation development required, with six to seven years preferred • Data center experience strongly preferred but not required • Strong understanding of automation systems including control loops, field I/O, and mission-critical control system behavior • Experience with industrial PLC platforms, including but not limited to Rockwell Automation and Carel systems • Familiarity with software development tools and practices such as version control systems and structured code reviews preferred • Demonstrated ability to take technical ownership, influence across teams, and make sound engineering decisions • Proficiency with Microsoft Office and SharePoint.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage • life and AD&D • short and long-term disability coverage • paid time off • employee assistance • participation in a 401k program that includes company match • many other additional voluntary benefits