Data Center Manager

Amazon; Wink (TX); On-site; USD 108,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Texas is seeking a Data Center Manager to lead engineering teams and drive operational excellence across AWS data centers in Wink.

You will refine processes, mentor high performers, and collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure safety, reliability, and cost efficiency. This role requires 4+ years IT/data center experience, on-call facilities exposure, and networking knowledge.

Qualifications

• 4+ years IT experience or Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or equivalent.
• 1+ years of operations and on-call support for data center facilities or production facilities.
• 1+ years of networking experience (DNS, DHCP, SSL, TCP/IP).

Responsibilities

• Managing and developing teams of engineers, providing technical and leadership expertise and ensuring highest levels of performance.
• Maintaining existing Data Centers.
• Helping build and bring online new Data Centers.
• Constantly improving processes and procedures.
• Managing relationships with external vendors and contractors.
• Liaising with internal teams and management groups.
• Ensuring Health & Safety standards in all Data Centers.
• Creating and maintaining metrics to drive positive changes.
• Assisting in implementing service methodologies including incident, problem, change, and capacity management.

Skills

IT experience

Operations & on-call support

Networking experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or equivalent

Tools

PMP/Scrum cert

AWS EC2/EBS/S3

Job description

Job ID: 10496875 | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

As a Data Center Manager in Amazon, you will get to manage the world’s largest Cloud Computing Infrastructure. We encounter interesting, challenging & complex problems every day, being a technical manager in Amazon means that you can innovate to solve these issues and help drive Operations Excellence in all areas of your role.

You will be a proven manager with experience managing teams of high performers. You will have the ability to refine and develop processes to optimize operational excellence in every area of your role. You will be able to drive performance levels to achieve the pace we build and operate our Data Centers at. You will have previous experience in Data Centers, either building or managing (or both) along with exposure to developing great relationships with both internal teams and external vendors.

This role will be physically based at our new MDD Pecos, TX site.

Key job responsibilities

• Managing and developing teams of engineers, providing both technical and leadership expertise and ensuring highest levels of performance.
• Maintaining existing Data Centers
• Helping build and bring online new Data Centers
• Constantly improving all our processes and procedures. We believe there is nothing we cannot improve
• Assisting & managing relationships with external vendors & contractors
• Liaising with internal teams & management groups
• Ensuring we adhere to and exceed local Health & Safety standards in all our Data Centers
• Creating and maintaining metrics on all aspects of our Data Centers and utilizing those metrics to drive positive changes
• Assisting in implementing service methodologies including incident management, problem management, change management, capacity management, etc.

About the team

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of Information Technology (IT) experience, or Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• 1+ years of operations and on-call support for data center facilities, mission critical plants, or production facilities experience
• 1+ years of networking (such as DNS, DHCP, SSL, OSI Model, and TCP/IP) experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of data center experience
• Experience communicating results to senior leadership, or experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision‑making
• Experience conducting interviews and making effective hiring decisions
• project management certification such as PMP, Scrum, or other Agile certification
• Knowledge of AWS services, such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Block Storage (EBS), and Simple Storage Service (S3)

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USA, TX, Wink - 107,700.00 - 188,500.00 USD annually

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