Sr. Global Strategy Engineer, Global Engineering Strategy

Amazon • Columbus, OH

1d • $136,600 - $184,800

About The Position

AWS Infrastructure Services is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, including data centers, servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment. The Global Engineering Strategy (GES) team, part of the broader Data Center Engineering (DCE) organization, is seeking a results-oriented, inventive senior data center engineer. This role focuses on driving front-end engineering and design strategy for new owned and leased site developments. The Senior Global Strategy Engineer will lead engineering due diligence for new and expanding regions, site master planning, and overall site design strategy, aiming to maintain high performance standards while reducing budgets and increasing efficiency through innovation. The position involves working closely with Real Estate, Risk and Resiliency, Power, Water, Fiber, Environmental, Pre-Construction, and other partner teams on global design strategy implementation. Key activities include assisting in data center site selection, reviewing due diligence reports, leading site planning and development, and playing a pivotal role in delivering data center designs. The role requires strong leadership, clear communication, a track record of delivery, and the ability to provide creative engineering solutions with a focus on quality and customer needs. The engineer will work as part of a team, perform technical design engineering diligence for global regions, and thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, understanding best practices for data center project delivery and possessing extensive experience in domestic and international data center delivery.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Professional Engineering or Architectural License
• Knowledge of continuously operating redundant electrical systems, cooling systems, air flow containment systems, and building management systems
• 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, managing internal partners and your external vendor consultants, ensuring design ready deliverables are completed and handed over for successful design execution
• Rollout strategy of new data center design types and intercepts that impact site master plans and design strategy
• Provide engineering design decisions to the partner teams for strategic planning and region selection
• Collaborate with other DCE teams developing new data center infrastructure products, and design execution team disciplines such as civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, structural engineering and architects to assess how our various design types, BOD and products can be deployed for a certain site development project
• 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, backgrounds and levels of leadership

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: Senior