Controls Engineer, Deployment, CDS - DCCD

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Herndon, VA is seeking a Data Center Controls Engineer to troubleshoot, manage projects, and maintain BMS and EPMS systems in AWS data centers. You will lead design reviews, commissioning, and turnover, while coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure uptime and safety.

The role emphasizes vendor management, life-cycle support, and developing control logic and GUIs for complex electrical and mechanical systems in a fast-paced cloud infrastructure environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or 5+ years of relevant discipline work experience.
• 3+ years of relevant work in a data center or other critical environment experience.
• 2+ years of vendor management experience.
• 2+ years of construction or project management experience.
• Experience reading and interpreting construction drawings and specifications.
• CFC license or PMI qualification (PMP, IPMA, IPMC).

Responsibilities

• Train and assist internal customers and stakeholders with BMS and EPMS systems.
• Provide technical assistance during lifecycle of the data center; review maintenances and actions.
• Develop BMS & EPMS project scopes, schedules, budgets, and LOE.
• Manage scope, schedule, finance and execution of BMS/EPMS projects in AWS data centers.
• Assist in procurement activities including RFQs, vendor responses, and PO issuance.
• Participate in AWS on-call schedule for BMS/EPMS support.
• Attend project meetings and report status to Controls and stakeholders.
• Support commissioning activities in data centers.
• Review and iterate on controls SOO and provide feedback to design team.
• Develop and modify controls logic programming and GUIs.
• Manage multiple stakeholder deliverables and navigate challenging situations.
• Financially manage BMS and EPMS service contracts.
• Visit in-operation data centers to troubleshoot and supervise vendor work.

Skills

Data center experience

Vendor management

Project management

Controls engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

5+ years of relevant discipline work experience

Job description

Description

As part of the global controls team, you will work with highly motivated experts and innovators in the data center industry. You will be responsible for troubleshooting, project management, and maintaining the building management system (BMS) and electrical power monitoring system (EPMS). Using Amazon leadership principles, you will develop new processes and standards while innovating in the controls space. AWS Data centers have multiple components such as generators, uninterruptible power sources, diesel generators, electrical switchgear, power distribution units, variable frequency drives, automatic/static transfer switches, chillers [air-cooled and water-cooled], pumps, cooling towers, heat exchangers, CRAHs, air economizers, etc. All these components have local control systems that interact with each other via open and/or proprietary communications protocols. The BMS is the primary method of control of all mechanical systems within a data center. The EPMS is the primary method of monitoring all electrical systems within a data center.

Key job responsibilities

• Train and assist internal customers and stakeholders with the creation, design, configuration, validation, installation, commissioning and operation of BMS and EPMS systems.
• Provide technical assistance and support to operations during life cycle of the data center. Review results and action items from the quarterly maintenances for BMS and EPMS and take actions to get them resolved.
• Develop BMS & EPMS projects scope of work, schedule, budget, and level of efforts (LOE) to projects requested by customers and stakeholders.
• Manage scope, schedule, finance and execution of BMS and EPMS improvement projects in AWS data centers.
• Assist in procurement related activities including request for quotation/proposals, responding to request for information, review of vendors proposal and issuance of purchase orders.
• Participate in AWS global on-call schedule to provide immediate BMS and EPMS technical support to in-service data centers.
• Attend project related meetings, coordinate with project leaders and regularly report status to Controls and stakeholders’ management.
• Support Controls projects related commissioning activities in the data centers.
• Review, implement, troubleshoot and iterate on the controls sequence of operation (SOO) and provide necessary feedback to the design team.
• Develop and modify controls logic programming and graphical user interfaces.
• Manage multiple stakeholder deliverables, requirements and navigate challenging situations.
• Financially manage BMS and EPMS service contracts.
• Frequently visit (locally) assigned in-operation and/or under construction data centers to troubleshoot, meet customers, supervise vendor’s work to ensure compliance with the scope, design, SOO and applicable local codes.

A day in the life

As a Data Center Controls Engineer, your primary customers are Data Center Engineering Operations (DCEO), who depend on you to deliver reliable, well integrated Building Management Systems (BMS) and Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS). The problems you solve are technical: modifying controls logic to address operational issues, developing Methods of Procedure (MOPs) for firmware upgrades, or investigating complex alarm discrepancies across monitoring systems. For new builds, you own the controls scope from vendor submittal review through commissioning and turnover. You manage vendor relationships, budgets, and schedules for both service contracts and capital projects. Your internal stakeholders include your Controls Manager, Controls Technicians you provide technical direction to, and partner teams (Construction, Critical Projects Implementation, Commissioning, DCEO).

About The Team

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.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or 5+ years of relevant discipline work experience
• 3+ years of relevant work in a data center or other critical environment experience
• 2+ years of vendor management experience
• 2+ years of construction or project management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience reading and interpreting construction drawings and specifications
• CFC license or PMI qualification (PMP, IPMA, IPMC)

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USA, VA, Herndon - 96,000.00 - 166,300.00 USD annually

Company

Amazon Data Services, Inc.

Job ID: A10582602