Data Center Electrical & Mechanical Engineer

Amazon TA; Ringmer; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS is seeking a Data Centre Engineering Operations Technician to act as the on-site maintenance technician for our data centre. You will operate and maintain electrical, mechanical, emergency generator, and fire/life safety equipment to ensure uptime above 99.999%.

The role involves hands-on troubleshooting, routine maintenance, safety compliance, and collaboration with Data Centre Operations technicians to keep critical infrastructure running efficiently.

Qualifications

• Experience in maintaining electrical and mechanical systems in data centers.
• Ability to operate and troubleshoot standby generators, switchboards, UPS, PDUs, AHUs, pumps, motors, VFDs.
• Willingness to work on-site with safety procedures.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain mechanical and electrical equipment
• Troubleshooting of facility and rack-level events within internal SLAs
• Perform limited maintenance tasks to include: filter changes, HVAC PMs, rack power installs, rack PDU, and rack ATS replacements
• Provide support to Data Centre Operations technicians
• Perform root cause analysis of equipment failures
• Ensure all safety procedures are adhered to while performing work
• Take daily operational readings of all mechanical and electrical equipment through routine rounds/log taking
• Utilise internal CMMS to manage building workflows and spare part inventory
• Supervise contractors who perform servicing or preventive maintenance
• Respond to off hour emergency calls per on call rotation for any one of the region’s sites
• Fully comply with all physical security procedures and policies

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Mechanical maintenance

Troubleshooting

Safety procedures

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CMMS

UPS

PDU

AHU

Job description

AWS is seeking a Data Centre Engineering Operations Technician to act as the on-site maintenance technician for our data centre. You will operate and maintain electrical, mechanical, emergency generator, and fire/life safety equipment to ensure uptime above 99.999%.

The role involves hands-on troubleshooting, routine maintenance, safety compliance, and collaboration with Data Centre Operations technicians to keep critical infrastructure running efficiently.