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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is expanding its data center portfolio to support global cloud and AI infrastructure. The Physical Security Systems team works across design, construction, commissioning, and operations to deliver reliable security systems for these facilities.
This Lead Principal Physical Security Systems Engineer serves as a senior technical authority for physical security systems on complex data center construction projects. The role works with design, construction, security operations, networking, commissioning, and vendor teams to ensure systems meet OCI standards and are ready for operational use.
NOTE: This is a full-time role located onsite at our new hyperscale facility in Saline Township, Michigan. Relocation assistance will be provided.
Required Qualifications
- Significant experience designing, delivering, or managing physical security systems in data centers, mission-critical facilities, large campuses, or similarly secure environments.
- Strong knowledge of access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, intercoms, perimeter security, and security monitoring platforms.
- Experience reviewing construction drawings, specifications, submittals, device schedules, and commissioning documentation.
- Understanding of low-voltage construction, structured cabling, device installation, labeling, testing, and system integration.
- Proven ability to manage integrators, contractors, and vendors while coordinating with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to identify technical, quality, and schedule risks and communicate clearly with field teams and leadership.
- Experience reviewing vendor scope, change orders, pricing, and schedule impacts.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, information technology, security management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to travel as needed for project delivery and site reviews.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering physical security systems for hyperscale data centers, cloud infrastructure, or other mission-critical facilities.
- Experience with large campuses, high-density data halls, or projects with phased construction and operational handovers.
- Familiarity with enterprise access control, video management, intrusion detection, badging, visitor management, and security operations platforms.
- Experience integrating security systems with networks, building systems, life safety systems, and centralized monitoring.
- Knowledge of commissioning, integrated systems testing, deficiency tracking, and operational acceptance.
- Experience working with general contractors, security integrators, low-voltage contractors, design consultants, commissioning agents, and owner’s representatives.
- Experience developing security standards, installation details, inspection checklists, test scripts, or turnover documentation.
- Familiarity with applicable codes, regional requirements, and secure facility operations.
- Certifications such as PSP, CPP, PMP, RCDD, or BICSI, or relevant platform certifications for systems such as LenelS2, Genetec, Avigilon, CCure, or Axis.
What Success Looks Like
Security systems are installed consistently, function as intended, and are fully tested and documented before handover. The Principal Engineer identifies issues early, holds vendors accountable, and gives project and operations leaders a clear view of system readiness.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical leadership: Review security designs, drawings, specifications, submittals, and installation details. Identify design gaps, integration risks, and operational concerns, and guide teams toward practical solutions.
- Construction delivery: Oversee security integrators and contractors through installation, configuration, testing, and turnover. Monitor scope, schedule, quality, vendor performance, and change orders.
- Systems integration: Coordinate access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, intercom, badging, and perimeter security systems with site networks, monitoring platforms, and operational processes.
- Quality and commissioning: Review inspection records, test plans, device schedules, configurations, and closeout documents. Participate in field inspections and functional testing, and track deficiencies through resolution.
- Operational handover: Confirm systems are tested, documented, and ready for acceptance by OCI security and operations teams. Communicate readiness, open risks, and decisions needed to project leadership.
- Standards and improvement: Help improve design standards, installation practices, testing procedures, and turnover requirements across projects.
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is expanding its data center portfolio to support global cloud and AI infrastructure. The Physical Security Systems team works across design, construction, commissioning, and operations to deliver reliable security systems for these facilities.
This Lead Principal Physical Security Systems Engineer serves as a senior technical authority for physical security systems on complex data center construction projects. The role works with design, construction, security operations, networking, commissioning, and vendor teams to ensure systems meet OCI standards and are ready for operational use.
NOTE: This is a full-time role located onsite at our new hyperscale facility in Saline Township, Michigan. Relocation assistance will be provided.
Required Qualifications
- Significant experience designing, delivering, or managing physical security systems in data centers, mission-critical facilities, large campuses, or similarly secure environments.
- Strong knowledge of access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, intercoms, perimeter security, and security monitoring platforms.
- Experience reviewing construction drawings, specifications, submittals, device schedules, and commissioning documentation.
- Understanding of low-voltage construction, structured cabling, device installation, labeling, testing, and system integration.
- Proven ability to manage integrators, contractors, and vendors while coordinating with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to identify technical, quality, and schedule risks and communicate clearly with field teams and leadership.
- Experience reviewing vendor scope, change orders, pricing, and schedule impacts.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, information technology, security management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to travel as needed for project delivery and site reviews.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering physical security systems for hyperscale data centers, cloud infrastructure, or other mission-critical facilities.
- Experience with large campuses, high-density data halls, or projects with phased construction and operational handovers.
- Familiarity with enterprise access control, video management, intrusion detection, badging, visitor management, and security operations platforms.
- Experience integrating security systems with networks, building systems, life safety systems, and centralized monitoring.
- Knowledge of commissioning, integrated systems testing, deficiency tracking, and operational acceptance.
- Experience working with general contractors, security integrators, low-voltage contractors, design consultants, commissioning agents, and owner’s representatives.
- Experience developing security standards, installation details, inspection checklists, test scripts, or turnover documentation.
- Familiarity with applicable codes, regional requirements, and secure facility operations.
- Certifications such as PSP, CPP, PMP, RCDD, or BICSI, or relevant platform certifications for systems such as LenelS2, Genetec, Avigilon, CCure, or Axis.
What Success Looks Like
Security systems are installed consistently, function as intended, and are fully tested and documented before handover. The Principal Engineer identifies issues early, holds vendors accountable, and gives project and operations leaders a clear view of system readiness.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical leadership: Review security designs, drawings, specifications, submittals, and installation details. Identify design gaps, integration risks, and operational concerns, and guide teams toward practical solutions.
- Construction delivery: Oversee security integrators and contractors through installation, configuration, testing, and turnover. Monitor scope, schedule, quality, vendor performance, and change orders.
- Systems integration: Coordinate access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, intercom, badging, and perimeter security systems with site networks, monitoring platforms, and operational processes.
- Quality and commissioning: Review inspection records, test plans, device schedules, configurations, and closeout documents. Participate in field inspections and functional testing, and track deficiencies through resolution.
- Operational handover: Confirm systems are tested, documented, and ready for acceptance by OCI security and operations teams. Communicate readiness, open risks, and decisions needed to project leadership.
- Standards and improvement: Help improve design standards, installation practices, testing procedures, and turnover requirements across projects.
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Senior Level Data Center Construction Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level data center construction manager job?
Employers hiring at this level look for candidates who have owned complex, high-value builds end to end, not just supported them. Demonstrating that you have managed subcontractors, driven schedule and budget accountability, navigated commissioning milestones, and mentored junior project staff gives you a clear edge. Certifications like PMP or a background in critical facility standards also strengthen a senior-level application.
Which companies hire senior level data center construction managers?
Companies hiring senior level data center construction managers right now include Meta, Turner & Townsend Pty Limited, and Jobot, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Hiring at this level comes from hyperscale cloud operators, large general contractors with critical facilities divisions, and data center developers managing multi-site expansion programs.
Are there remote senior level data center construction manager jobs?
Yes, though the nature of construction work means most roles require significant on-site presence. About 20% of senior level data center construction manager openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, and those listings typically involve program oversight, owner's representation, or multi-site coordination roles where travel substitutes for a fixed site assignment.
What makes a data center construction manager role senior level?
Senior level roles are defined by full project ownership rather than task execution. That means accountability for budget, schedule, quality, and safety across the entire build, authority over subcontractor and vendor relationships, and responsibility for delivering commissioning milestones. Senior professionals are also expected to mentor project engineers and coordinators, and to serve as the primary decision-maker when issues escalate on site.
Which industries hire the most senior level data center construction managers?
Senior Level data center construction manager roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Agriculture & Farming, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Those sectors are driving the most hiring because of aggressive capacity expansion, the complexity of hyperscale and colocation builds, and the critical infrastructure standards that require experienced leadership on every project.