Data Center Facilities & Operations Lead (Night Shift)

Amazon; Manassas (VA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Manassas, VA is seeking a Data Center Facility Manager to lead 24x7 teams and oversee critical physical infrastructure, including electrical and mechanical systems, to ensure high availability and safety. The role focuses on reliability, efficiency, and cost control across multiple on-site facilities.

Candidates should have 5+ years in engineering leadership and 2+ years of people management, with a track record of meeting SLAs and driving continuous improvement in complex data center

Qualifications

• 2+ years of people management and team development experience.
• 5+ years of engineering work managing large-scale services experience.
• Experience maintaining SLAs through the implementation of proactive issue detection and reporting.
• Experience operating a mission-critical team or product.
• High school or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all aspects of the data center’s critical physical infrastructure. Maintain high availability and performance while ensuring that all work performed within the site is done to high quality without impact to internal/external customers and maintain service level agreements.
• Manage on-site teams of 24x7 shift technicians, sub-contractors and vendors ensuring that all work performed is in accordance with established practices, procedures and safety protocols. This is a night shift role.
• Drive safety and security culture and compliance within the team
• Hire, coach, and promote team members. Responsible for team's career development and performance management
• Promotes healthy team culture and peak morale
• Effectively and efficiently manage the operations budget and expenditures.
• Engage in improvement projects, often requiring reaching out to a variety of support teams, and drive them from conception to completion.
• Act as an escalation point for all facilities-related issues. Oversee operation and management of routine and emergency services on a variety of critical systems such as: switchgear, generators, UPS systems, power distribution equipment, chillers, cooling towers, computer room air handlers, building monitoring systems, etc.
• Utilize root cause analysis and troubleshooting/problem solving skills
• Respond to out-of-hours emergency calls.
• Role may support more than one location/site.
• May assist in the build out of new facilities and assist in projects to increase current facility efficiency
• Utilize Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and other basic administrative tools to perform day to day tasks

Skills

People management

Engineering management

Large-scale services

Data center operations

Education

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Amazon in Manassas, VA is seeking a Data Center Facility Manager to lead 24x7 teams and oversee critical physical infrastructure, including electrical and mechanical systems, to ensure high availability and safety. The role focuses on reliability, efficiency, and cost control across multiple on-site facilities.

Candidates should have 5+ years in engineering leadership and 2+ years of people management, with a track record of meeting SLAs and driving continuous improvement in complex data center