Data Center Operations Controls Engineer

NVIDIA

Data Center Operations Controls Engineer at NVIDIA managing operational readiness and governance. Collaborating with teams to enhance monitoring and control capabilities in data centers.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeSanta Clara • California, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $184,000 - $287,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work together with Controls engineering to prioritize and coordinate the resolution of critical UI, stability, and interoperability issues affecting data center operations.
Lead operational cleanup at live sites, including nuisance alarm reduction, disabled point remediation, and restoration of a usable monitoring baseline.
Collaborate with engineering and operations to establish and uphold a consistent Controls version and configuration baseline, including setpoints, thresholds, and alarm defaults.
Help establish naming standards, topology mapping methods, and configuration governance to ensure consistency across sites.
Own the development and delivery of training, documentation, and knowledge transfer for data center operators and FOC teams using the Controls system.
Support the planning and rollout of integrations between Controls and key infrastructure tools (asset, power, and monitoring systems), focusing on operational value and adoption.
Define and track key operational metrics, such as incident response times, alarm quality, and configuration compliance, and drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of experience in operations, controls, or monitoring systems in data center, industrial, or large-scale infrastructure environments.
B.S. in related field or equivalent experience.
Strong understanding of controls systems, monitoring platforms, or SCADA-like tools, including alarms, setpoints, and configuration management.
Proven success partnering with engineering, operations, and vendor teams to stabilize and improve technical platforms.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical issues into clear operational actions for frontline teams.
Track record of defining and using operational metrics to drive performance and reliability improvements.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

controls systemsmonitoring platformsSCADA toolsconfiguration managementincident responsealarm qualityconfiguration complianceoperational metricsdata center operationslarge-scale infrastructure

Soft Skills

communication skillscollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingtraining developmentdocumentationknowledge transfercontinuous improvementoperational actionsstakeholder engagement