Data centre careers in Australia

Critical Facilities Trainee

Learns how a data centre runs, alongside a qualified operator, before working on its plant alone. It’s the way in for school leavers and people new to the industry.

Critical Facilities Operator

Walks the rounds of a data centre’s power and cooling plant, answers routine alarms and helps with maintenance, following the site’s procedures.

Data Centre Operator

White space and IT hardware

Works in the data hall following the site’s procedures: installs equipment in racks, patches and traces cabling, keeps the airflow right, and handles routine requests from customers.

Logistics Technician

Logistics

Receives, ships, counts and tracks a data centre’s equipment, keeps data-bearing devices in custody and destroys them, and stages equipment for installation.

Critical Facilities Technician

Runs and maintains a data centre’s power and cooling plant on a shift, including planned transfers, bypasses and isolations, without supervision.

Data Centre Technician

White space and IT hardware

Keeps the servers, network and cabling in a data hall working: installs and moves equipment, fixes faults, and answers customers’ remote-hands requests.

Operations Centre Technician

Operations centre

Watches facility and network alarms from an operations centre, works out what matters, keeps the tickets, and sends site staff to fix things.

Facilities and IT Technician

Facilities and IT (merged)

Runs both the power and cooling plant and the data hall at a site too small for two crews, such as an edge or enterprise site, a small colocation centre or a modular AI site.

Senior Critical Facilities Technician

The shift’s most experienced operator across power and cooling: leads planned work and the first response to a fault, and coaches the rest of the crew.

Senior Technician, Electrical

Electrical (LV and MV)

The site’s electrical specialist on shift: switching low and high voltage, transfers, UPS systems and generators, under the authorisations each needs.

Senior Technician, Mechanical and Cooling

Mechanical and Cooling

The site’s cooling specialist on shift: chillers, air handlers, pumps and cooling towers, refrigerants, and restarting cooling after a failure.

Senior Technician, Controls and BMS

Controls and BMS

The site’s controls specialist: the building management system, fire and suppression systems, and the alarms that come from them.

Senior Data Centre Technician

White space and IT hardware

The data hall’s most experienced technician: complex installs, moves and changes, the hardest faults, and coaching other technicians.

Physical Security Operations Lead

Physical security (adjacent line)

Runs a data centre’s physical security on a shift: access, escorts, cameras, and the response to alarms.

Data Centre Technician, Network

Network

The data hall’s network technician: installs, configures and fixes network devices and circuits on site.

Data Centre Technician, Systems

Systems

The data hall’s systems technician: diagnoses servers, updates firmware, rebuilds operating systems and patches hypervisor hosts on site.

Virtualisation Administrator

Systems administration

Runs the virtualisation platform at an enterprise or government data centre, where the owner runs its own workloads.

Logistics and Inventory Specialist

Logistics

Controls a data centre’s inventory and its custody rules, forecasts materials, and oversees logistics vendors.

Shift Lead

Leads a crew through its shift: assigns the work, is the first person the crew turns to, keeps the schedule, and runs the handover and the response when something fails.

Commissioning Engineer

Commissioning (adjacent line)

Proves that new and changed plant works before it carries load: functional tests, integrated systems tests and handover to the operators.

EHS Specialist

Environment, health and safety (adjacent line)

Keeps a data centre’s safety system working with the site’s leaders: risk assessments, permits, isolations, emergencies and learning from incidents.

Lead Data Centre Technician

White space and IT hardware

Leads the data hall technicians on a shift: assigns and checks the work, takes the last technical escalation, and coaches.

Operations Centre Supervisor

Operations centre

Runs an operations centre’s shift: its people, how it sorts alarms, and the calls that run major incidents.

Data Centre Network Engineer

Network engineering

Builds and runs a data centre’s network: deploys and commissions devices, routes traffic, and fixes what breaks.

Virtualisation Engineer

Systems administration

Designs and runs the virtualisation platform at an enterprise or government data centre.

OT Controls Engineer

Controls and BMS

Designs, separates and governs a data centre’s control networks, and manages their vulnerabilities, at a site or across a region.

OT Cybersecurity Engineer

Cyber and OT security (central)

Secures a data centre’s operational technology from the cyber security team: inventory, separation of networks, vulnerabilities, access, events and audits.

Cluster Commissioning Engineer

Commissioning (adjacent line)

Brings compute, network fabric and storage from delivery to working capacity, at one site or travelling between sites.

Critical Facilities Supervisor

Manages the shift crews as people: hiring, rosters, performance and pay, and stands in for the facilities manager.

Chief Engineer

The site’s technical authority: owns its procedures, reviews its changes, finds the root causes of failures, and accepts new plant into service.

Data Centre Technician Manager

White space and IT hardware

Manages the data hall technicians as people, and the remote-hands service customers rely on.

Network Engineering Manager

Network engineering

Manages a network engineering team for a site or a region.

Logistics Manager

Logistics

Manages a site’s or a region’s logistics: its people, vendors, materials and the programme that wipes or destroys data-bearing devices.

Facilities Assurance Lead

Provider assurance

Checks the facilities of a data centre someone else runs, for a tenant, an AI lab or an owner: assesses sites, audits maintenance and reviews switching plans.

IT Operations Assurance Lead

Provider assurance

Checks the IT operations of a data centre a partner runs, for a tenant or an AI lab: rack intake, repairs and returns, network fabric work and who is responsible for what.

Critical Facilities Manager

Runs a data centre’s facilities: its people, its operating limits, its customers and its incidents, and leads its safety duties.

Data Centre Site Manager

Site management

Runs a data centre’s facilities, IT hardware, network and logistics together, as GPU clouds and new AI sites do.