Director of Data Centre Build and Engineering

With the UK’s most geographically dispersed network of data centres, Pulsant is poised to capture the strong growth that will be driven by distribution of workloads closer to the Edge. Alongside expansion driven by M&A, Pulsant is investing heavily into the expansion and improvement of our portfolio to underpin this growth.

TheDirector of Data Centre Build and Engineeringis a strategically critical senior management role with accountability for theengineering integrity, build delivery, and technical governanceof Pulsant’s data centre portfolio.

The role leads Pulsant’s Mechanical and Electrical engineering capability and oversees all major build, expansion, and infrastructure upgrade programmes across the estate. It ensures that capital investment deliversoperationally robust, maintainable, and compliant assets, aligned to Pulsant’s technical standards and long-term strategy.

This role acts as thefinal internal technical authorityfor data centre build and engineering decisions and provides leadership to three regional M&E engineering teams responsible for the safe operation, modification, and development of the data centres’ power and cooling systems.

We are flexible on base location for this role, it can be based from any of our offices (Gateshead, Edinburgh or Maidenhead) or any of our 14 data centres which are spread across the UK. The role will involve regular national travel.