Development Engineer - Data Centres

Recruiter:

RareCruit

Job Ref:

CPT001110/BR

Date posted:

Monday, June 23, 2025

Location:

Midrand, South Africa

Salary:

R1,2 Mil CTC pa

SUMMARY:
Giant in the data centres industry is seeking a Development Engineer for the design of their leading data centre infrastructure across Africa

CPT or JHB based | R1,5 Mil CTC pa | Start ASAP

POSITION INFO:
The Engineer is part of the Development Team and will be reporting to the Manager Engineering. Responsible for the technical aspects of new build, expansion and major upgrade of Data Centres across the continent predominantly in East Africa. Responsible for engineering decisions, project design deliverables and acceptance of all major mechanical or electrical deployments completed for the Compnay.
Responsible to update and improve Design and Group Standards based on lessons learnt on previous projects and in order to comply to latest customer requirements and industry trends.
Accountable for specific aspects of the overall design, compliance to local regulation and Group standards for the infrastructure serving the Data Centres. Gets involved during technical design phases for each project from inception to hand-over to Operations team. This includes oversight of professional engineering consultants and technical sign-off & acceptance of their deliverables.
Responsible for technical sign-off during all significant design, construction and commissioning activities for specific activities of the data centre infrastructure.
Provides technical support to the Project team, in house Sales teams and Operations teams as required.

Data Centre Design Management
Data Centre Construction
Data Centre Commissiong and Testing
Data Centre Technical hand over to Operations
Degree in Electrical or Mechanical

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