Job Description

Your Role

As an Authorizing Engineer, you are accountable for electrical and mechanical safety across our data center environments, ensuring that all work is carried out in line with legislation, industry standards, and company policies. You define, govern, and enforce the Safe System of Work and own the Electrical Safety Rules, ensuring they are current, clearly communicated, and consistently applied across all sites.


You act as the senior authority and trusted advisor for electrical safety, supporting Operations and Projects during complex maintenance, incidents, lifecycle activities, and construction works. The role includes oversight of safety permitting, approval of live working, and assurance that critical infrastructure activities are executed safely.


A key focus is the competence management of Authorized Persons, including training, assessment, appointment, and auditing of SAPs and APs, as well as supporting contractor competence across the supply chain. Through close collaboration with Site Management and Health & Safety teams, you drive risk awareness, continuous improvement, and a strong safety culture throughout the organization.

Your Profile

Bachelor's degree in Engineering (preferably Electrical Engineering; BEng or BSc acceptable) Recognized electrical apprenticeship or formal craft training Certified and experienced as an HV and/or LV Authorized Person (AP) Formal Authorizing Engineer (AE) training and prior AE experience Minimum 10 years' experience in electrical engineering or data center / building services environments Certified Authorized Person (HV and/or LV) with completion of AP training Formal Authorizing Engineer (AE) training and prior AE experience, including SSOW governance Deep expertise in electrical switching and Safe Systems of Work (SSOW) within critical infrastructures

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

Operations

Our Operations team keeps our customers' infrastructure running safely and securely. We get plenty of opportunities to take on a variety of tasks and develop our technical skills. From overseeing electrical power to cooling and fire suppression systems, our team plays a vital role in making sure everything in our data centers operates as it should.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.


Join us and you'll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you'll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We'll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.


Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us

Health and Safety

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.