Remote Data Center Engineering Jobs
Remote Data Center Engineering jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first firms and distributed enterprise teams hiring for roles in cloud infrastructure, managed services, and hyperscale operations. Employers posting remote openings right now include Olsson, Turner & Townsend Pty Limited, and AECOM. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Associate Director Site Engineering & Design to join a large-scale data center development program and serve as an embedded member of the program team. This role will be responsible for managing the Request for Information (RFI) process, coordinating multidisciplinary design activities, tracking design issues and action items, and supporting overall program governance.
The successful candidate will act as a key liaison between design, construction, and program management teams, ensuring that RFIs, design deliverables, and documentation are managed efficiently while maintaining established design authority and governance protocols. This position requires strong organizational, technical writing, and stakeholder management skills, along with experience supporting complex capital projects in mission-critical environments.
Responsibilities:
RFI Management
- Manage and maintain the project RFI register, ensuring all RFIs are logged, categorized, prioritized, and tracked through resolution.
- Review, triage, and classify RFIs according to established project protocols and escalation criteria.
- Draft proposed responses for routine RFIs using existing contract documents, drawings, specifications, and approved project precedents.
- Coordinate review and approval of drafted responses with designated client design representatives before formal issuance.
- Escalate RFIs involving design changes, code interpretations, schedule impacts, cost implications, or technical ambiguities to the appropriate design authority.
- Monitor RFI status, due dates, and turnaround times to support project schedule objectives.
- Maintain accurate audit trails documenting authorship, review, approval, and issuance of all RFI responses.
Design Coordination & Program Support
- Coordinate design deliverables, review cycles, and comment resolution activities across architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, controls, and specialty disciplines.
- Track design-related risks, open issues, and action items, ensuring timely follow-up and resolution.
- Facilitate design coordination meetings, including agenda preparation, meeting documentation, and action item management.
- Identify and communicate design process bottlenecks that may affect project execution or construction activities.
-
Support document management efforts, including maintenance of:
- Design basis documentation
- RFI registers
- Submittal logs
- Design issue logs
- Lessons learned databases
- Promote cross-functional collaboration between project stakeholders, consultants, contractors, and client teams.
Reporting & Governance
- Prepare and deliver regular program reports on RFI metrics, design status, issue resolution, and project risks.
- Analyze RFI trends and recurring issues to identify opportunities for process improvement and enhanced design clarity.
- Support development and continuous refinement of RFI management protocols and governance procedures.
- Ensure compliance with project documentation standards, approval workflows, and established authority boundaries.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Preference would be to be located in Dallas or Houston, TX, but will consider remote for the right candidate.
- 8+ years of experience in project engineering, design management, construction administration, or technical project coordination on large capital projects.
- Experience supporting multidisciplinary design teams through design development, construction documentation, and construction phases.
- Strong knowledge of RFI, submittal, and design change management processes.
- Experience working within design-build, EPC, or traditional delivery models.
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Proficiency with project information management platforms such as:
- Procore
- Aconex
- Autodesk Construction Cloud / BIM 360
- Similar project collaboration systems
- Strong technical writing and documentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting data center, mission-critical, industrial, or large infrastructure projects.
-
Familiarity with data center design fundamentals, including:
- Electrical distribution systems
- Mechanical cooling systems
- Building controls systems
- Reliability and redundancy concepts
- Experience operating within sophisticated program management and governance environments.
- Exposure to commissioning, design validation, or construction quality processes.
Additional Information
The salary range for this role is $170,000 - $200,000. This range reflects the company's good faith estimate of the base salary for this position at the time of the posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.
- On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Associate Director Site Engineering & Design to join a large-scale data center development program and serve as an embedded member of the program team. This role will be responsible for managing the Request for Information (RFI) process, coordinating multidisciplinary design activities, tracking design issues and action items, and supporting overall program governance.
The successful candidate will act as a key liaison between design, construction, and program management teams, ensuring that RFIs, design deliverables, and documentation are managed efficiently while maintaining established design authority and governance protocols. This position requires strong organizational, technical writing, and stakeholder management skills, along with experience supporting complex capital projects in mission-critical environments.
Responsibilities:
RFI Management
- Manage and maintain the project RFI register, ensuring all RFIs are logged, categorized, prioritized, and tracked through resolution.
- Review, triage, and classify RFIs according to established project protocols and escalation criteria.
- Draft proposed responses for routine RFIs using existing contract documents, drawings, specifications, and approved project precedents.
- Coordinate review and approval of drafted responses with designated client design representatives before formal issuance.
- Escalate RFIs involving design changes, code interpretations, schedule impacts, cost implications, or technical ambiguities to the appropriate design authority.
- Monitor RFI status, due dates, and turnaround times to support project schedule objectives.
- Maintain accurate audit trails documenting authorship, review, approval, and issuance of all RFI responses.
Design Coordination & Program Support
- Coordinate design deliverables, review cycles, and comment resolution activities across architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, controls, and specialty disciplines.
- Track design-related risks, open issues, and action items, ensuring timely follow-up and resolution.
- Facilitate design coordination meetings, including agenda preparation, meeting documentation, and action item management.
- Identify and communicate design process bottlenecks that may affect project execution or construction activities.
-
Support document management efforts, including maintenance of:
- Design basis documentation
- RFI registers
- Submittal logs
- Design issue logs
- Lessons learned databases
- Promote cross-functional collaboration between project stakeholders, consultants, contractors, and client teams.
Reporting & Governance
- Prepare and deliver regular program reports on RFI metrics, design status, issue resolution, and project risks.
- Analyze RFI trends and recurring issues to identify opportunities for process improvement and enhanced design clarity.
- Support development and continuous refinement of RFI management protocols and governance procedures.
- Ensure compliance with project documentation standards, approval workflows, and established authority boundaries.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Preference would be to be located in Dallas or Houston, TX, but will consider remote for the right candidate.
- 8+ years of experience in project engineering, design management, construction administration, or technical project coordination on large capital projects.
- Experience supporting multidisciplinary design teams through design development, construction documentation, and construction phases.
- Strong knowledge of RFI, submittal, and design change management processes.
- Experience working within design-build, EPC, or traditional delivery models.
-
Proficiency with project information management platforms such as:
- Procore
- Aconex
- Autodesk Construction Cloud / BIM 360
- Similar project collaboration systems
- Strong technical writing and documentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting data center, mission-critical, industrial, or large infrastructure projects.
-
Familiarity with data center design fundamentals, including:
- Electrical distribution systems
- Mechanical cooling systems
- Building controls systems
- Reliability and redundancy concepts
- Experience operating within sophisticated program management and governance environments.
- Exposure to commissioning, design validation, or construction quality processes.
Additional Information
The salary range for this role is $170,000 - $200,000. This range reflects the company's good faith estimate of the base salary for this position at the time of the posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.
- On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Manufacturing
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote data center engineering jobs.
- Experience operating and maintaining critical facilities including power, cooling, and fire suppression systems
- Familiarity with Tier I through Tier IV data center standards and uptime requirements
- Proficiency with DCIM tools, BMS platforms, and ticketing and change-management systems
- Industry certifications such as BICSI, Uptime Institute ATD, or CompTIA Server+
- Associate or bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related technical field
- Ability to obtain and maintain security clearances or access credentials for sensitive facilities
Tips for Your Remote Data Center Engineering Job Search
Document your remote infrastructure work clearly
Remote hiring managers can't watch you work, so your application needs to show it. Include written incident reports, runbooks, or change management records you've authored. Concrete artifacts that prove you communicate technical decisions in writing carry significant weight for remote data center roles.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote data center engineering openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your experience and apply directly without sifting through unrelated postings.
Highlight async coordination and remote monitoring tools
Remote data center employers screen for comfort with DCIM platforms, remote hands coordination, and ticketing systems like ServiceNow or Jira. Call out specific tools you've used for real-time monitoring, capacity planning, or coordinating off-site technicians, since these signal you can operate without being on the floor.
Prepare for systems-focused remote interview formats
Remote interviews for data center roles often include scenario-based questions on power failure response, cooling redundancy, and change control procedures handled entirely through written or verbal communication. Practice walking through an incident from detection to resolution using only the remote tools available to you.
Remote Data Center Engineering Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote data center engineering job?
Target companies with distributed infrastructure teams or remote-first engineering cultures, since they're built to support engineers who never set foot in a central office. Remote employers screen for self-directed troubleshooting, clear written communication for async handoffs, and hands-on fluency with DCIM tools, power and cooling systems, and remote monitoring platforms. A documented history of managing incidents independently gives you a real edge.
Which companies hire remote data center engineerings?
Remote data center engineering roles are posted by Olsson, Turner & Townsend Pty Limited, and AECOM and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. These include managed service providers, cloud infrastructure companies, and large enterprises running distributed data center operations across multiple regions.
Can you get a remote data center engineering job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level roles in data center engineering are competitive because employers expect you to work independently from day one without in-person mentorship. Your strongest path is through certifications like CompTIA Server+, CDCP, or vendor credentials, combined with home lab documentation, open-source infrastructure projects, or internships that show you can troubleshoot and communicate technical findings in writing.
Do you need a degree for remote data center engineering jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers weigh practical skills, relevant certifications, and a verifiable history of maintaining or designing data center infrastructure well above a formal degree. Showing proficiency with power distribution, thermal management, structured cabling standards, and remote monitoring tools often matters more than the credential on your transcript, particularly at cloud-native and managed service companies.
Which industries hire the most remote data center engineerings?
The sectors hiring the most remote data center engineerings are Manufacturing, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. These industries run distributed infrastructure at scale and rely on remote engineers to oversee operations, coordinate with on-site technicians, and manage systems across geographically dispersed facilities.
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