Data Center Operations Engineer — Flexible Hours & Impact

Amazon Web Services; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Data Center Technical Operations Engineer in Melbourne to maintain and optimize AWS data center facilities. You’ll manage routine maintenance, supervise contractors, and work on critical infrastructure across cooling, power, and safety systems.

You’ll collaborate with IT and facilities teams to ensure availability and efficiency for AWS services. We value hands-on engineering experience, the ability to interpret diagrams, and a proactive approach to safety and

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant work experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Can bend or twist the body into unusual positions while working.
• Can use hands to manipulate small wires and objects.

Responsibilities

• Undertake and support management of both routine maintenance and emergency service of a variety of critical systems such as switch-gear, generators, UPS systems, power distribution equipment, chillers, cooling towers, computer room air handlers, building monitoring systems, fire systems, etc.
• Installation of new rack capacity and provisioning of power/cooling
• On-site management of contractors and vendors, ensuring that all work performed, is in accordance with established practices, procedures & local legislation.
• Establish performance benchmarks, conduct analyses and prepare reports and documentation of all aspects of critical facility infrastructure operations and maintenance. Manage the facility’s assets.
• Generate change management requests & incident management tickets for all facility related events (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) and assist in the resolution of infrastructure engineering and services issues.
• Collaborate with data center IT managers and other business leaders to coordinate day to day operations, projects, manage capacity, and optimize plant safety, performance, reliability, sustainability, and efficiency.
• Drive & implement projects to increase current facility capacity, efficiency, sustainability & reliability as well as assist in the design implementation, commissioning and build out of new data center facilities.

Skills

Data center operations

Electrical engineering background

Mechanical aptitude

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Network design knowledge

Low voltage cabling knowledge

Job description

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Data Center Technical Operations Engineer in Melbourne to maintain and optimize AWS data center facilities. You’ll manage routine maintenance, supervise contractors, and work on critical infrastructure across cooling, power, and safety systems.

You’ll collaborate with IT and facilities teams to ensure availability and efficiency for AWS services. We value hands-on engineering experience, the ability to interpret diagrams, and a proactive approach to safety and