Data Center Engineering Tech - 99.999% Uptime

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Fredericksburg (VA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 91,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation stipend

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Data Center Engineering Technician to help protect and sustain mission-critical infrastructure across AWS data centers.

You will perform daily rounds, monitor BMS/EPMS, troubleshoot, and support rack installation and decommissioning within SLAs to ensure 24/7 reliability and safety. The role requires traveling between data center sites, flexible shifts up to 12 hours, and coordination with contractors and vendors.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• 2+ years of data center engineering experience
• Experience reading and writing procedures, technical documents, and engineering drawings.

Responsibilities

• Daily building rounds to monitor and record information from electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment to ensure 24/7 reliability and availability
• Monitor Building Management Systems (BMS) and Electrical Power Management System (EPMS)
• Assist in troubleshooting of facility and rack-level events within internal Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Perform rack installs and rack decommissioning within internal SLA
• Perform PM, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and repair of electrical and mechanical equipment
• Technical writing to support change management program
• Monitor daily work requests and manage to resolution, and execute projects from conception to completion
• On-site support of contractors, sub-contractors and vendors, ensuring that all work performed is in accordance with established practices, procedures & local legislation
• 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
• Role may support more than one location/site.

Skills

Data center engineering

Technical writing

Procedures reading

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Data Center Engineering Technician to help protect and sustain mission-critical infrastructure across AWS data centers.

You will perform daily rounds, monitor BMS/EPMS, troubleshoot, and support rack installation and decommissioning within SLAs to ensure 24/7 reliability and safety. The role requires traveling between data center sites, flexible shifts up to 12 hours, and coordination with contractors and vendors.