Commissioning & Reliability Lead

Team Overview

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team is revolutionizing end-to-end data center planning, design, construction, and operations by developing innovative software and infrastructure solutions. We aim to create a seamless bridge between digital and physical infrastructure, enabling efficient management and automation. By standardizing data center building and implementing advanced analytics, we streamline design and construction to support rapid scalability. With a focus on automation and AI integration, OCI is positioned to lead the industry in cost-effective, efficient data center management that is accessible and adaptable for future technological advancements.

Role Overview: Commissioning & Reliability Lead

The Commissioning & Reliability Lead will deliver a clean, fast energization and stable first 90 days of operation for OCI mission-critical power systems—eliminating control hunting, miscoordination, and nuisance trips. This role leads the integrated commissioning plan across generation, substations, controls, and data center power delivery, defining hold/witness points and acceptance criteria, and executing system-level testing (including black start rehearsals, islanding tests, and power quality acceptance testing at the data center PCC). You will identify and close system-level gaps during commissioning and establish reliability readiness (RAM, spares, maintenance readiness) to enable a high-quality turnover to long-term Operations & Maintenance teams.

Primary focus is Stabilize Stack – Borderplex, NM (Stacked), with secondary oversight for TX-K – Shackelford, TX (Vantage).

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the integrated commissioning plan spanning generation, substations, protection, controls/EMS, and data center power distribution.
• Define and manage hold points, witness points, readiness gates, and acceptance criteria; ensure test evidence is complete and auditable.
• Lead system-level commissioning activities and critical tests, including:
  • Black-start rehearsals and restoration sequencing validation
  • Islanding and re-synchronization tests (as applicable)
  • Power quality acceptance testing at data center PCCs (voltage/frequency regulation, harmonics/flicker where applicable, transient response)
• Identify and close system-level gaps during commissioning (integration issues across OEM boundaries, settings conflicts, undocumented dependencies, sequencing errors).
• Drive structured troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for:
  • Control hunting/instability
  • Protection miscoordination
  • Nuisance trips and unexpected interactions across integrated assets
• Coordinate OEMs, EPCs, utilities, and operators in live/mission-critical environments; align stakeholders on safe sequencing and clear “go/no-go” criteria.
• Establish operational reliability readiness for turnover, including:
  • RAM targets/assumptions and early-life reliability approach
  • Spares recommendations and inventory readiness
  • Maintenance readiness, procedures, and runbooks
  • Training needs and turnover package expectations
• Maintain commissioning risk register, punch list, retest plans, and corrective action tracking through stabilization and turnover to O&M.

Basic Requirements

• 10+ years commissioning large-scale generation, T&D/substations, microgrids, or equivalent mission-critical power systems.
• Demonstrated track record bringing complex systems to COD and stabilizing operations during the early-life period (first 90 days).
• Strong experience coordinating OEMs, EPCs, utilities, and operators in live environments with strict safety and uptime expectations.
• Proven ability to detect and resolve system-level integration gaps (beyond component-level commissioning).
• Strong documentation and communication skills (test plans, acceptance criteria, commissioning reports, issue tracking, executive updates).

Preferred Requirements

• Experience commissioning integrated systems that include inverter-based resources (BESS, fuel cells, etc.), thermal generation, and utility interconnections.
• Strong familiarity with protection and controls commissioning workflows (settings management, relay test coordination, event report/oscillography interpretation).
• Experience leading PCC power quality testing and translating results into corrective actions and retest criteria.
• Experience building repeatable commissioning governance (standard test scripts, evidence packages, change/configuration control, lessons learned).
• Familiarity with large-scale cloud provider / hyperscale data center power environments.

Key skills/competency

• Power Systems Commissioning
• Reliability Engineering
• Data Center Infrastructure
• Microgrid Systems
• Protection & Controls
• System Integration
• Root Cause Analysis
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Power Quality Testing
• Operational Readiness