Infra Decommission Technician

Amazon • Herndon, VA

3d

About The Position

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion. The Network & Cable Decommissioning team (NCD) are looking to hire a highly motivated, self-driven decommissioning technician who will work closely with project managers, network engineers, and operations teams to recover cabling infrastructure, and sanitize legacy abandoned cable. The NCD Tech will be responsible for executing assigned efforts and communicating status updates of those task. he Network and Cable Decommissioning team’s primary focus is to reclaim capacity for our customers by safely removing decommissioned legacy network equipment and old cabling infrastructure, thus enabling a life cycle approach for the physical layer of our data center network, which will help utilize our existing DC space to its fullest potential.

Requirements

• High school or equivalent diploma
• 2+ years’ experience coordinating work and priorities through ticketing system and workflows
• 2+ years of computer hardware troubleshooting and repair experience and 1+ years of computer networking experience

Nice To Haves

• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

Responsibilities

• Physical Decommissioning of cabling infrastructure in a Data Center environment.
• Manage assigned work and priorities through ticketing system and/or workflows.
• Provide status updates to Stakeholder via ticketing system.
• Effectively co-ordinate and deliver multiple tasks congruently.
• Exhibit quality workmanship on all work and maintain Data Center cleanliness.
• Effectively leverage the logical tools and systems that are provided.
• Follow all production, safety and quality standards, codes and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with various Stakeholders to remove obstacles.
• Read and comprehend datacenter build documentation, and site specific layout material.
• Travel within geographical work area is required, up to 25% travel outside traditional work area may be required depending on your primary region.
• Scope effort assigned, validate all work is ready for decommissioning, create change requests to perform work, and timely execute effort that has been assigned.
• All efforts need to be documented via ticketing system.
• Successful candidates must be comfortable working at heights, including on ladders, scaffolding, and aerial lifts, while adhering to all safety protocols.

Benefits

• Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED