Data Center Engineering Technician – Frontline M&E

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

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Oregon (USA) is seeking a Data Center Engineering Technician to perform hands-on electrical and mechanical maintenance in mission-critical facilities.

You will monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain diesel generators, switchgear, UPS, PDUs, CRACs, chillers, cooling towers, water systems, and related systems to ensure uptime and reliability. The role requires flexibility, travel between data centers, and ability to work long shifts, including nights and weekends.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of electrical and mechanical facilities maintenance, or 2+ years of electrical facilities maintenance and 1+ years of mechanical facilities maintenance experience.
• 2+ years of Microsoft Office products and applications experience.
• Work flexible schedule including weekends, nights, and holidays.
• 2+ years of data center engineering experience.
• Experience reading and writing procedures, technical documents, and engineering drawings.
• Vocational/technical training or an associate degree or above, or 4+ years of military experience.

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

Electrical facilities maintenance

Mechanical facilities maintenance

MS Office

Education

Vocational/technical training or associate degree or 4+ years military experience

Tools

BMS/EPMS systems

Procedures/engineering drawings

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Oregon (USA) is seeking a Data Center Engineering Technician to perform hands-on electrical and mechanical maintenance in mission-critical facilities.

You will monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain diesel generators, switchgear, UPS, PDUs, CRACs, chillers, cooling towers, water systems, and related systems to ensure uptime and reliability. The role requires flexibility, travel between data centers, and ability to work long shifts, including nights and weekends.