Data Center Controls Engineer — BMS/EPMS Specialist

Amazon Inc.; Virginia; On-site; USD 111,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Stafford, VA is seeking an experienced Controls Engineer to troubleshoot and manage BMS/EPMS systems across AWS data centers.

You will lead life‑cycle support, drive improvements, and coordinate with customers and vendors on scope, schedule, and budgets. The role requires strong PM capabilities, deep knowledge of electrical/ mechanical data center infrastructure, and hands-on experience with power management systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience carrying new design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production
• Experience in MS Excel, Word, and Windows Operating Systems
• Experience with power management and power monitoring systems

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and perform Root Cause Analysis or Corrective Action for BMS and EPMS related issues in AWS data centers.
• 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 data centers to troubleshoot, meet customers, supervise vendor’s work to ensure compliance with the scope, design, SOO and applicable local codes.

Skills

Project management

Data center operations

Troubleshooting

Root cause analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

Windows OS

Job description

Amazon Inc. in Stafford, VA is seeking an experienced Controls Engineer to troubleshoot and manage BMS/EPMS systems across AWS data centers.

You will lead life‑cycle support, drive improvements, and coordinate with customers and vendors on scope, schedule, and budgets. The role requires strong PM capabilities, deep knowledge of electrical/ mechanical data center infrastructure, and hands-on experience with power management systems.