Data Center Controls Engineer, Data Center Capacity Delivery - Controls

Amazon • Johnstown, OH

1d • Onsite

About The Position

AWS Infrastructure Services is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, ensuring the cloud runs smoothly. This role is part of a diverse team of engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, and operations managers who collaborate to deliver high standards of safety and security while providing infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost. The Data Center Controls Engineer will work with experts in the data center industry, focusing on troubleshooting, project management, and maintaining the building management system (BMS) and electrical power monitoring system (EPMS). The role involves developing new processes and standards, innovating in the controls space, and supporting various data center components like generators, UPS, switchgear, chillers, and cooling towers. The BMS controls mechanical systems, and the EPMS monitors electrical systems, both interacting via communication protocols.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• Experience with power management and power monitoring systems
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
• 4+ years of general project or vendor management experience (request for proposals, bidding, change orders, quality control, and RFI and submittal tracking) associated with construction and project execution.

Nice To Haves

• Experience interpreting technical drawings, diagrams, and flow charts
• Experience designing data centers or critical MEP infrastructure.
• Registered as a Professional Engineer (PE), or certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
• Experiencing using common industrial communication protocols (MQTT, BACnet and/or MODBUS).
• Prior AWS/Amazon experience
• 4+ Yr. Military Service
• Experience designing, configuring, programming, installing, troubleshooting or servicing HVAC Controls or Electrical SCADA systems application specific controllers, software and networks.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and perform Root Cause Analysis or Corrective Action for BMS and EPMS related issues in AWS data centers.
• Train and assist internal customers and stakeholders with the creation, design, configuration, validation, installation, commissioning and operation of BMS and EPMS systems.
• Provide technical assistance and support to operations during life cycle of the data center.
• Review results and action items from the quarterly maintenances for BMS and EPMS and take actions to get them resolved.
• Develop BMS & EPMS projects scope of work, schedule, budget, and level of efforts (LOE) to projects requested by customers and stakeholders.
• Manage scope, schedule, finance and execution of BMS and EPMS improvement projects in AWS data centers.
• Assist in procurement related activities including request for quotation/proposals, responding to request for information, review of vendors proposal and issuance of purchase orders.
• Participate in AWS global on-call schedule to provide immediate BMS and EPMS technical support to in-service data centers.
• Attend project related meetings, coordinate with project leaders and regularly report status to Controls and stakeholders management.
• Support Controls projects related commissioning activities in the data centers.
• Review, implement, troubleshoot and iterate on the controls sequence of operation (SOO) and provide necessary feedback to the design team.
• Develop and modify controls logic programming and graphical user interfaces.
• Manage multiple stakeholder deliverables, requirements and navigate challenging situations.
• Financially manage BMS and EPMS service contracts.
• Frequently visit (locally) assigned in-operation data centers to troubleshoot, meet customers, supervise vendor’s work to ensure compliance with the scope, design, SOO and applicable local codes.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level