Data Center Engineering Operations Engineer, DCEO

Amazon Inc.; Mumbai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Data Center Engineering Operations role focuses on ensuring the reliability and safety of data center infrastructure. The engineer will manage electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety systems, coordinate with IT and operations teams, and drive continuous improvement in uptime and efficiency.

The position requires 2+ years of experience in data center engineering or related fields, with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• Knowledge of electrical engineering principles including switchgear, UPS, transformers, and circuit breakers.
• Experience in data center engineering and critical infrastructure systems.

Responsibilities

• Oversee on-site management of contractors, sub-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 on all aspects of the data center facility infrastructure operations and maintenance.
• Coordinate projects with DCO managers (IT) and other business leaders to manage capacity and optimize plant safety, performance, reliability and efficiency.
• Support the installation of racks and the provision of power/cooling.
• Troubleshoot facility and rack-level events within internal SLAs.

Skills

Work experience

Education

BEng in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Electrical equipment knowledge

Job description

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.

Key job responsibilities

The Data Center Engineering Operation Engineer is responsible for ensuring that all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the data center is operating within contract parameters within facilities. Often this will be including risk management and mitigation, corrective and preventative maintenance of critical infrastructure, vendor management and metric reporting.

• Responsible for the on-site management of contractors, sub-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 on all aspects of the data center facility infrastructure operations and maintenance.
• Work with DCO managers (IT) and other business leaders and operating partners to coordinate projects, manage capacity, and optimize plant safety, performance, reliability, sustainability and efficiency.
• Responsible for supporting the installation of the racks and the provision of power/cooling.

A day in the life

• Assist in troubleshooting of facility and rack-level events within internal Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Perform rack installs, rack decommissioning, and facility management.
• Provide operational readings and key performance indicators to make sure uptime is maintained
• Responsible for the on-site management of contractors, sub-contractors and vendors, ensuring that all work performed is in accordance with established practices, procedures & local legislation.
• Performance and oversight of maintenance and operations on all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the data center.
• Work schedule changes depending on specific site needs. Shifts can be up to 12-hours and may rotate on a predefined schedule. Some locations have on-call rotations

About the team

About AWS

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant work experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field

• Knowledge of electrical engineering principles including switchgear, UPS, transformers, and circuit breakers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in data center engineering

• 2+ years of data center engineering experience

• Knowledge of the electrical and mechanical systems involved in critical data center operations including systems such as feeders, transformers, generators, switchgear, UPS systems, ATS units, PDU units, chillers, pumps, air handling units, and CRAC units

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