Principal Operations Engineer
bulk
| Company | bulk |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | — |
| Remote | — |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Lead |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 5 Aug 2026 |
| Last verified | 11 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (teamtailor) |
Description
At Bulk, our mission is to build sustainable infrastructure that supports the digital society of tomorrow. As one of the leading providers of sustainable, high-performance data center solutions in the Nordics, we design and operate infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence and the digital society – efficiently, securely, and with 100% renewable energy. We are now looking to hire a Principal Operations Engineer to play a central role in building the programs and engineering standards behind reliable operations across our growing data center portfolio. This is a program ownership role for someone technical enough to implement programs and lead changes. You will own change management, incident response and risk reviews, write engineering standards, and build root cause analysis framework our teams work to. Reporting to Chris, our Engineering Director, you will work across the whole portfolio rather than inside one site, and you will be a part of the escalation path if critical incidents occur. This is a senior individual contributor role, so your standards get adopted on credibility rather than on a reporting line. Within the first year: a change management program in use across sites, a root cause analysis framework our engineers run, and a measurable fall in repeat incidents. What you’ll do: As our Principal Operations Engineer , your key responsibilities will be: Programs, standards and engineering practice Own and develop the change management program, and the standards and training that go with it. Build the root cause analysis framework our engineers and site teams work to. Run the incident response and drill programs, including incident response training. Run risk reviews, and set the risk and redundancy targets our sites are measured against. Write and maintain the technical policies, procedures and engineering standards for operations, and the direction they point in. Teach and mentor engineers across the organization, so the standards live in how people work and not only in a document. Reliability, risk and assets Go deep when something breaks, past the component that failed and into why the failure scenario was possible at all. Perform site deep dives and health checks against design and target risk levels. Develop asset strategies covering criticality, maintenance plans and sparing, aligned to ISO 55000. Set maintenance and testing regimes, including condition-based maintenance for critical equipment Incidents and escalation Act as senior technical escalation for site operations during incidents. Take incident commander tasks for electrical emergencies. Lead postmortems through to permanent remediation rather than a closed ticket. New build, equipment and capacity Bring operational requirements into design reviews and the new build phase. Evaluate and sign off customer capacity requests on time, with the analysis behind each decision documented. Develop operational commissioning requirements, and witness FAT and SAT, performance tests, integrated systems testing and black building tests. Qualify vendors, approve equipment specifications and give procurement technical input on replacement and new equipment. Who are you? You are a senior engineer who would rather build the framework than fight the same failure twice. You go deep when something breaks, past the component that failed and into why the scenario was possible at all, and you stay calm and clear while it is still happening. You get standards adopted through engineering credibility rather than a reporting line, which means being honest about risk and working with site teams, projects and procurement rather than around them. You are comfortable building programs where little exists today, and you build for the portfolio we will have rathe