Data Center Engineering Technician: Keep the Cloud Running

Amazon Inc.; Sparks (NV); On-site; USD 45,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Data Center Engineering Technician to help maintain mission‑critical facilities and ensure 99.999% uptime for AWS infrastructure.

You will work with electrical, mechanical, and life-safety systems, performing installs, PM, troubleshooting, and on‑site contractor coordination. The role requires travel between data center sites, flexible shift schedules up to 12 hours, and on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of electrical or mechanical, or 1+ years of data center or mission critical facilities experience.
• 1+ years of electrical or mechanical experience.
• 1+ years of Microsoft Office products and applications experience.

Responsibilities

• Daily building rounds to monitor electrical, mechanical, and life-safety equipment.
• Monitor Building Management Systems (BMS) and Electrical Power Management System (EPMS).
• Troubleshoot 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.

Skills

Electrical experience

Mechanical experience

Microsoft Office

Education

Associate’s degree in related field

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Data Center Engineering Technician to help maintain mission‑critical facilities and ensure 99.999% uptime for AWS infrastructure.

You will work with electrical, mechanical, and life-safety systems, performing installs, PM, troubleshooting, and on‑site contractor coordination. The role requires travel between data center sites, flexible shift schedules up to 12 hours, and on-call rotations.