Data Center Engineering Technician II – Critical Facilities

Socket.dev; Covington (GA); On-site; USD 51,000 - 91,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Data Center Engineering Technician to help maintain mission-critical facilities, ensuring the 99.999% uptime that supports global digital experiences. You will maintain, operate, and troubleshoot electrical and mechanical systems, diesel generators, UPS, PDUs, chillers, and cooling towers across AWS data centers.

You’ll join a diverse, inclusive team and work with contractors and vendors on-site.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of electrical and mechanical facilities maintenance experience.
• 2+ years of Microsoft Office products and applications experience.
• Willingness to work flexible schedule including weekends, nights, and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Daily building rounds to monitor 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

Microsoft Office

Flexible schedule

Education

Vocational/technical training or an associate degree or above, or 4+ years of military experience

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Data Center Engineering Technician to help maintain mission-critical facilities, ensuring the 99.999% uptime that supports global digital experiences. You will maintain, operate, and troubleshoot electrical and mechanical systems, diesel generators, UPS, PDUs, chillers, and cooling towers across AWS data centers.

You’ll join a diverse, inclusive team and work with contractors and vendors on-site.