Mechanical Engineer, Data Center, Colocation Engineering - AMER
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 involves supporting all AWS data centers and the associated servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment. The role offers the opportunity to work on challenging problems within a diverse team of engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, and operations managers. Collaboration across AWS is key to maintaining high standards of safety and security while providing scalable capacity at the lowest cost. The team fosters an inclusive culture that encourages bold ideas and empowers employees to see them through to completion. This position is for an engineer passionate about data center design who is looking for a challenging role to define their own path. AWS data centers are fundamental to the operation of AWS software and services, supporting growing customer demands. The role involves collaborating with business development, design engineers, data center operations professionals, external vendors, and consultants, as well as other cross-functional teams, to assess and select colocation facilities that meet business requirements. The engineer will leverage their in-depth understanding of data center design, engineering, and operations of infrastructure common to data centers, telecommunications facilities, and other critical environments. Responsibilities include working directly with internal business teams and colocation vendors to identify, document, and resolve operational/design deficiencies that could affect site capability or availability. There will be opportunities to influence standards for data center products, improve processes, and guide the direction of the global colocation data center portfolio. This role is ideal for a strong leader with solid experience in data center mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and structural (MEPS) infrastructure design engineering, offering a fast-paced, exciting, and rewarding work environment at Amazon.
Requirements
- 4+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities experience
- Experience in industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities
- Experience researching new designs, technologies, and construction methods of data center equipment and facilities
- Experience in commissioning
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, and Excel
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
Nice To Haves
- Professional Engineer License
- Experience with building codes and regulations for your region
- Experience carrying design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production
- Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents
Responsibilities
- Conduct site assessments against AWS standards for collocation data centers, legacy facility upgrades, and general capital endeavors.
- Perform risk analysis and availability calculations for vendor owned and operated collocation data center’s infrastructure to determine fit-for-use/fit-for-service.
- Influence AWS’ design and specification requirements to meet our business needs for AWS colocation products.
- Investigate and document root-cause failure analysis associated with infrastructure and equipment failures.
- Work with vendors and local agencies having jurisdiction to ensure compliance with federal, state and municipal requirements and codes.
- Collaborate with engineering, operations, and commissioning teams to properly test and validate the installation, operation, and performance of critical electrical/mechanical/fire suppression/controls systems/structural systems.
- Support Operations, data scientists and other business partners to determine utilization, efficiency, and performance analysis on critical systems.
- Travel to Data Center sites as required - International & Domestic (up to 50%)
- Conduct site assessments against AWS standards for collocation data centers and telecommunications facilities within the region.
- Reviews vendor critical infrastructure designs and perform risk analysis and availability calculations for vendor owned and operated collocation data center’s infrastructure to determine fit-for-use/fit-for-service for AWS cloud compute and networking services.
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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
