Infrastructure Reliability Engineer (Electrical Systems)

Location: Manassas or Sterling, Virginia; Portland, Oregon; Chicago, Illinois; or Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas. On-site work is required, with 25% domestic travel. Must be eligible to work in the United States.

Company

hirify.global provides and operates wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers for hyperscale and enterprise customers, with a focus on availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

What you will do

• Lead deep-dive investigations and root cause analyses of electrical infrastructure failures involving UPS systems, switchgear, breakers, relays, generators, grounding, controls, and power quality.
• Evaluate electrical systems under abnormal, fault, and degraded conditions to identify systemic vulnerabilities and reliability risks.
• Develop failure-mode mitigation strategies and improve uptime, event response, availability reporting, and risk trend monitoring.
• Engage OEMs and vendors to challenge technical assumptions and drive long-term infrastructure improvements.
• Support maintenance standards, asset strategies, technical training, design reviews, commissioning, and infrastructure turnover processes.
• Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Construction, and Workforce Development to resolve complex technical issues and prevent repeat incidents.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in critical infrastructure environments such as data centers, substations, power generation, or utility systems.
• Strong technical expertise in power distribution, UPS systems, generators, grounding, protective relays, switchgear, controls integration, and power quality analysis.
• Experience analyzing electrical failures using waveform data, event logs, relay coordination, commissioning findings, or forensic troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with root cause analysis and reliability methodologies such as FMEA and RCM.
• Expertise in commissioning and infrastructure design review, including maintainability, equipment compatibility, fault response, and design intent.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience with high technical competency; comprehensive background screening is required.

Culture & Benefits

• Healthcare, dental, vision, life insurance, paid time off, and paid leave programs.
• 401(k), flexible spending accounts, and a cell phone subsidy.
• Peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs.
• Company events, game nights, happy hours, and barbecues.
• Domestic travel of approximately 25% is expected.