Sr. Global Strategy Engineer, Global Engineering Strategy

Amazon • Columbus, OH

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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 Global Engineering Strategy team (GES) is looking for a results-oriented,
inventive senior data center engineer to drive development, implementation and
delivery of enterprise data centers strategies through the use of AWS
infrastructure builds, which meet strict quality and performance levels across
the globe.

You will help lead the engineering due diligence efforts for new and expanding
regions, while maintaining the highest performance standards and utilizing
innovation to reduce budgets and increase efficiency.

You will work directly with our Real Estate, Risk and Resiliency, Design and
Pre-Construction teams on global designs.

You will assist in data center site selection, review of due diligence reports,
contribute to site planning and development and play a pivotal role in the
delivery of data center designs.

Our Global Strategy Engineers:
- Are strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a
consistent track record of delivery.
- Provide creative engineering balanced with high quality and customer focus.
- Work as part of a team to accomplish our goals.
- Perform technical design engineering diligence for global regions.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Understand the best practices for service oriented product delivery.
- Have extensive experience within the arena of domestic and international data
center delivery.

Requirements

• 6+ years of data center design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance experience
• 6+ 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
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
• Knowledge of critical data center mechanical and electrical equipment
• Experience in data center design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Professional Engineering or Architectural License
• Knowledge of 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

• Collaborating with internal stakeholders during the due diligence phase to oversee the process and ensure design requirements are considered
• Collaborating with internal teams to gather data to ensure pre-requisites for start of design stage are met.
• Leading the predesign phase and ensuring design ready deliverables are handed over to the design team
• Analysis of major intercepts impact to site plans and strategy
• In conjunction with the Energy Team, work with International Utilities to understand HV/MV substation design and impacts to assess risk and impacts on our builds
• Providing engineering design decisions to the planning team for strategic planning and region selection.
• Collaborating with other disciplines such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, architects to assess how our various products can be deployed in that region
• Ability to work on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions.
• Escalate issues as required and communicate clearly and effectively at the appropriate level of detail with people from a wide range of technical abilities and backgrounds.

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

What This Job Offers

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