Vantage Data Centers

Senior Automation Systems Engineer

Vantage Data Centers

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $150,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Support and maintain graphics, UDT, and PLC code repositories, including change management, version control practices, and controlled release into production environments
  • Coordinate with internal Automation Engineering stakeholders, project teams, and contractors to ensure alignment with company goals, standards, and critical continuous improvement initiatives
  • Drive, develop, and manage automation standards, architecture guidelines, SOPs, and user documentation supporting both regional and portfolio-wide needs
  • Design and evolve automation architectures, data models, UDT frameworks, and reusable logic to support new construction and sustaining operations
  • Support development, testing, and controlled deployment of new automation applications and updates
  • Provide development-focused support during commissioning activities, including validation of software functionality, alarming behavior, and data integrity
  • Collaborate with Design, Engineering, Construction, Reliability Engineering, Site Operations, and Automation Engineering peers to deliver and sustain reliable automation solutions
  • Act as an escalation and advisory resource for complex automation issues impacting live, mission-critical systems
  • Develop automation logic and visualization applications based on project documentation including drawings, sequences of operation, bills of material, and instrumentation diagrams
  • Design and maintain Ignition gateway architectures, including redundancy, performance, and long-term maintainability considerations
  • Promote abstraction, reuse, and standardization of automation logic across the portfolio
  • Provide technical leadership to integration team members and staff augmentation resources without direct people management responsibility

Requirements

  • Advanced knowledge of the Ignition (Inductive Automation) SCADA platform is required
  • Five years of experience in industrial automation development required, with six to seven years preferred
  • Data center experience strongly preferred but not required
  • Strong understanding of automation systems including control loops, field I/O, and mission-critical control system behavior
  • Experience with industrial PLC platforms, including but not limited to Rockwell Automation and Carel systems
  • Familiarity with software development tools and practices such as version control systems and structured code reviews preferred
  • Demonstrated ability to take technical ownership, influence across teams, and make sound engineering decisions
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office and SharePoint
Benefits
  • medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • life and AD&D
  • short and long-term disability coverage
  • paid time off
  • employee assistance
  • participation in a 401k program that includes company match
  • many other additional voluntary benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Ignition SCADAindustrial automation developmentautomation systemscontrol loopsfield I/OPLC platformsRockwell AutomationCarel systemsversion control systemsstructured code reviews
Soft Skills
technical ownershipinfluence across teamsengineering decision making