Data Center Operations & Safety Leader

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Milano; On-site; EUR 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services Italy S.R.L. is seeking a senior operations-focused professional for AWS Infrastructure Services, responsible for safety, uptime, and facility management across multiple data centers.

The role requires leadership of diverse technical teams and strategic project delivery in a highly regulated, mission-critical environment. The successful candidate will drive maintenance planning, manage vendor performance, and ensure operational excellence while collaborating with

Qualifications

• Speak, write, and read fluently in English.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or relevant Engineering discipline or demonstrable equivalent.
• Several years’ experience in a high-volume mission-critical operational environment (eg. data center, healthcare, high technology manufacturing, large scale production, aviation maintenance) preferably 7x24x365 operational experience & responsibilities.
• First‑hand knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, employee relations, leadership techniques, operational performance, and coordination of people and resources.
• Valid driving license.

Responsibilities

• Setting and maintaining the highest standard for safety and actively promoting a world-class safety culture
• The key performance metrics for a significant number of large scale Data Centres distributed across multiple AWS owned and Co-location sites (hosted by 3rd party service providers.) by continuously driving improvements while delivering performance against said metrics
• Delivering 100% uptime on all customer supporting infrastructure
• Strategic planning and execution of all corrective and preventative maintenance activities on all mission-critical infrastructure
• Managing strong technical teams with responsibility for the training and/or development of others to ensure operational excellence and career development
• Successful delivery of strategic projects on critical infrastructure
• Successful delivery of build-out and retrofit of facility infrastructure in existing and new regional locations
• Managing vendor performance by consistently setting high standards, driving accountability and conducting regular performance reviews
• Risk Management: adopt and plan corporate risk strategy.
• Critical Event Response readiness (planning, escalation/incident management, customer impacting event management response and recovery.)
• Experience in working and managing within complex organizational matrix, manage and grow relationships between cross-functional teams.

Skills

Fluent English

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Amazon Data Services Italy S.R.L. is seeking a senior operations-focused professional for AWS Infrastructure Services, responsible for safety, uptime, and facility management across multiple data centers.

The role requires leadership of diverse technical teams and strategic project delivery in a highly regulated, mission-critical environment. The successful candidate will drive maintenance planning, manage vendor performance, and ensure operational excellence while collaborating with