Kerja Sepenuh Masa, Principal Delivery Engineer - Global Switch di Sourceo Johor - Maukerja

About the Role

As Principal Delivery Engineer, you play a critical role in shaping and delivering the technical vision for Global Switch’s capital projects, ensuring that engineering solutions are robust, innovative, and fully aligned with both business objectives and the highest industry standards. This role is responsible for providing expert technical leadership, oversight, and coordination across all stages of engineering design and delivery, spanning multiple campuses and regions. Collaboration is central to this position as the Principal Delivery Engineer works alongside the Engineering Manager, Engineering Director, and site-based technical operations teams, as well as project engineers across other campuses, to share lessons learned, maintain design consistency, and provide support as needed. This is a technically demanding and globally connected role, suited to an experienced engineering professional who combines design rigour with delivery focus. The Principal Delivery Engineer is committed to enabling infrastructure excellence through collaboration, quality assurance, and engineering leadership, while modelling the organisation’s core values of Precision, People, Impact, and Evolution.

Key Responsibilities

• Define comprehensive technical specifications and project briefs, ensuring all requirements are clear, measurable, and aligned with both business objectives and regulatory standards.

• Oversee the integration of multidisciplinary design elements, ensuring every aspect meets or exceeds local, national, and international codes and standards, and proactively address compliance gaps.

• Critically assess design proposals for robustness, scalability, and cost efficiency, identifying opportunities to enhance resilience and reduce lifecycle costs.

• Proactively detect, document, and resolve infrastructure deficiencies, implementing corrective actions to maintain system integrity and reliability.

• Perform rigorous, impartial evaluations of critical systems, identifying vulnerabilities and implementing strategies to eliminate or mitigate single points of failure.

• Maintain comprehensive risk registers, ensuring all design-related risks are clearly recorded, regularly reviewed, and effectively managed throughout the project lifecycle.

• Develop and execute robust contingency strategies to address project delays, ensuring timely recovery and minimal impact on overall delivery.

• Proactively detect, document, and resolve infrastructure deficiencies, implementing corrective actions to maintain system integrity and reliability.

• Conduct thorough technical and financial analyses of design options, considering long-term operational and maintenance implications to inform optimal decision-making.

About you

You’re a highly experienced engineering professional with a strong technical foundation and a proven track record of delivering complex, mission‑critical infrastructure projects across multiple sites or regions. You combine deep expertise in data centre engineering with a delivery‑focused mindset, ensuring design solutions are robust, compliant, and aligned to both operational needs and long‑term business objectives. You thrive in technically demanding environments where quality, reliability, and resilience are non‑negotiable. Acting as a trusted technical authority, you’re confident guiding multidisciplinary teams, challenging design assumptions, and driving consistency through standards, governance, and best practice. Collaborative by nature, you work seamlessly with Engineering Managers, Directors, project engineers, and site operations teams to share knowledge, resolve issues, and continuously improve outcomes.

Key Requirements:

• Possess advanced knowledge of data centre systems, applying engineering principles to design and deliver high-performance, resilient infrastructure.

• Provide expert advice and hands-on support to project and site teams, ensuring engineering solutions are practical, innovative, and aligned with operational needs.

• Prioritise tasks and manage workloads efficiently, ensuring deadlines are met and resources are used optimally under the guidance of leadership.

• Ensure all engineering activities reflect the organisation’s sustainability commitments, embedding environmental considerations into every stage of project delivery.

• Lead the end-to-end technical design process, coordinating with external partners to ensure solutions are innovative, compliant, and aligned with project goals.

• Support the planning and budgeting of capital projects, ensuring financial and resource plans are robust.

• Expertly evaluate technical risks, developing and implementing effective mitigation strategies to safeguard system reliability.

About Global Switch

You might not know it, but you use a data centre like Global Switch every day. Whether you're browsing the web, streaming, playing a game, or simply making a purchase, you are relying on data centres around the world. Global Switch is a trusted name in the industry, with over 20 years of experience and a commitment to long-term partnerships and sustainability.

We value excellence and teamwork, and we always strive to deliver the best customer service and satisfaction. We are a team of skilled and passionate professionals, proud of who we are and what we do. Joining us means becoming part of a team that values learning and growth.

As an equal-opportunity employer, Global Switch is committed to providing a working culture that values diversity and inclusion and is committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a barrier-free recruitment process and working environment.

Department Design Locations Johor Bahru

Global Switch owns and operates 4,200,000 sq ft (388,000 sq m) of exceptional large-scale, multi customer, carrier and cloud neutral data centre space across Europe and Asia-Pacific. Established in 1998 our longevity in the market place and impressive track record prove we deliver best in class solutions.

Global Switch data centres are operated to a Tier III standard or higher and provide resilient and secure solutions to customers who include global system integrators, telecommunication and cloud providers, enterprises, financial institutions, government organisations, managed service providers and other hosting businesses.

Founded in 1998

Co-workers 400

Turnover 5M+

Design·Johor Bahru

Global Switch -Job Applicant Privacy Policy

Date of publication: 06/01/2026

We at Global Switch manage our employer branding and recruitment process through our [career site](*************) (the “Career Site”), and by using a related applicant tracking system.

In this privacy policy, we explain how we collect, use, and protect your personal data during the recruitment process via TeamTailor. The data controller is Global Switch, and this policy may be updated periodically.

Data We Collect

We may collect the following types of data:

• Personal Information: Name, contact details, CV, cover letter, education, work history, LinkedIn profile, etc.
• Application Data: Interview notes, assessments, references.
• Special Category Data (if voluntarily provided): Health, ethnicity, gender, disability status.
• Technical Data: IP address, browser type, device information (via TeamTailor platform).

Candidates Submitted via Recruitment Agencies

If your application is submitted by a recruitment agency or third-party recruiter, we will process your personal data in the same way as if you had applied directly. The agency is responsible for ensuring they have obtained your consent to share your information with us.

We may:

• Contact you directly to confirm your interest in the role.
• Retain your data in accordance with our standard retention policy.
• Share feedback with the agency regarding your application.

If you have concerns about how your data was shared, please contact the agency directly or reach out to us using the contact details below.

How We Use Your Data

We process your data to:

• Manage your application and assess suitability.
• Communicate with you during the recruitment process.
• Comply with legal obligations (e.g., right to work checks).
• Improve our recruitment practices and diversity monitoring (anonymised).

Legal Basis for Processing

We rely on:

• Consent: For optional data (e.g., diversity info).
• Contractual Necessity: To assess and process your application.
• Legal Obligation: For compliance checks.
• Legitimate Interests: To manage recruitment efficiently and securely.

Sharing Your Data

Your data may be shared with:

• Internal HR and hiring managers.
• Third-party service providers (e.g., TeamTailor, background check providers).
• Legal or regulatory authorities if required.

All third parties are bound by confidentiality and data protection obligations.

International Transfers

If data is transferred outside the UK/EEA, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place (e.g., Standard Contractual Clauses).

Data Security

We implement technical and organisational measures to protect your data, including encryption, access controls, and secure storage.

Data Retention

• Unsuccessful applications: Retained for up to 6 months unless you consent to longer storage.
• Successful applicants: Data retained in line with employment records.
• You may request deletion at any time.

Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Access, correct, or delete your data.
• Withdraw consent.
• Object to or restrict processing.
• Lodge a complaint with the ICO or relevant authority.

Contact Us

For questions or to exercise your rights, contact:

*************

Updates to this Privacy policy

We update this privacy policy when necessary - for example, because we start processing your personal data in a new way, because we want to make the information even clearer to you, or if it’s necessary to do so in order to comply with applicable data protection laws.

We encourage you to regularly check this page for any changes. You can always check the top of this page to see when this privacy policy was last updated.