Critical Infrastructure Mechanical Engineer, Field Engineering

Amazon; Brandenburg; Vor Ort; EUR 55.000 - 70.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Amazon is seeking a Critical Infrastructure Mechanical Engineer for Field Engineering in Brandenburg, Germany. The role involves supporting AWS Data Centers, ensuring operational excellence through design reviews, and managing projects across locations.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, experience with critical facilities, and strong problem-solving skills. This position requires adaptability to both office and field environments.

Qualifikationen

• Experience with design, operation, or maintenance of mission-critical facilities.
• Willingness to travel between Data Center sites.
• European Union nationality required.

Aufgaben

• Perform design reviews for new Data Centers.
• Conduct root cause analysis for site failures.
• Support operational issues with training and procedure reviews.
• Own conceptual design for data center upgrades.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects.
• Lead engineering audits including on-site visits.

Kenntnisse

Engineering judgement

Excellent communication skills

Problem-solving with engineered solutions

Project management

Building trust with stakeholders

Adaptability to fieldwork

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Jobbeschreibung

Critical Infrastructure Mechanical Engineer, Field Engineering

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.

As an Amazon Field Engineer, you will provide full life‑cycle support to AWS Data Centers from design inception through site improvement and maintenance. You will lead projects to fit out our data centers to meet ever‑evolving customer needs as we continue expanding our fleet to hyper‑scale.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong engineering judgement and ability to recommend solutions despite uncertainty/ambiguity.
• Excellent communication and writing skills, attention to detail, maintain high quality standards.
• Organized, with ability to set priorities and meet deadlines and budget.
• Experience solving problems with engineered solutions.
• Experience managing engineering projects and consultants.
• Build trust and relationships with stakeholders (Operations, Controls, Construction, Design, Commissioning, Product Managers, Technical Program Managers).
• Adaptable and inclined to go into the field to see things up close.
• Excited about a mix of office and field work.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Perform design and equipment submittal review for new Data Centers in your region.
• Conduct root cause analysis and create corrective action documentation for site/equipment failures.
• Support operational issues with ad‑hoc training, complex operating procedure reviews, critical equipment, and event support.
• Own conceptual design for existing data center upgrades that add capacity, improve availability, increase efficiency and sustainability.
• Interface with internal data center operations team, data center design engineering team, server hardware team, environmental health and safety team to promote standards that maintain consistency and reliability in services delivered.
• Manage concurrent projects, sometimes in multiple geographical regions.
• Initiate and lead engineering audits including on‑site visits within Amazon’s data centers; produce reports outlining risks with recommended mitigations and remediation.
• Act as resident engineer during new construction projects; support construction, commissioning, and turnover.

A Day in the Life

Each day you will interact with different teams responsible for all aspects of the data centers. You will prioritize your activities to support data center capacity availability and safety focusing on the actions that are most impactful. You will have opportunities to work on projects locally and globally.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience with the design, construction, operation, or maintenance of mission‑critical facilities, especially data centers.
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Mechanical Engineering.
• Willing to travel between Data Center sites, and internationally if required.
• This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.
• Knowledge of mechanical systems in critical Data Center operations such as CRAC/CRAHs/AHUs, chillers, cooling towers, storage tanks, chemical systems, heat exchangers, piping systems, pumps, valves, duct systems, fans, or dampers.
• Business‑level fluency in German (written and spoken).

Equal Opportunity Employment

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.