Critical Facilities Engineer
Verda is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, clusters, serverless containers, storage, APIs, and related AI infrastructure.
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About Verda
Formerly DataCrunch, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure for the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping and distributed model training to scalable inference. It manages data-center infrastructure, hardware, cloud-platform services, and an in-house AI Lab.
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About the Role
You'll be the hands-on engineer keeping power and cooling running at the data center site in Finland. You'll work alongside the outsourced facilities vendor, check the quality of their work, supervise maintenance windows and be the first technical response when something goes wrong. You'll also support construction handovers and deployment readiness as the site grows, and hold permit-to-work and EHS authority together with the Site Critical Facilities Manager.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience in electrical, mechanical or plumbing (MEP) facilities work in a live data center or comparable mission-critical or industrial environment
- Experience with liquid cooling systems at an engineer level
- Experience being first on the scene during live power or cooling incidents
- Experience supervising contractor or vendor work and signing off on quality
- Working knowledge of permit-to-work, isolations and site safety practices
- Strong safety mindset and documentation-minded way of working
- Professional working proficiency in English
- Willingness to work fully on site and take part in the on-call rota
Responsibilities
- Be the first technical response to power and cooling events, including electrical, mechanical and liquid cooling faults
- Share the facilities on-call rota with the Site Critical Facilities Manager
- Check the work of the outsourced facilities vendor and hold it to the agreed standard
- Supervise planned maintenance and change work on live power and cooling
- Hold permit-to-work and EHS authority and keep the site compliant with permits and regulations
- Operate and maintain liquid cooling systems and help improve how they are run
- Support the facilities side of the expansion, including construction handovers, commissioning checks and deployment readiness
- Keep accurate records of inspections, incidents, permits and handovers
Benefits
- Cash and equity compensation
- Local benefits
- Relocation support
