Global Data Center Structural Engineer | Travel‑Heavy

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 97,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Structural Engineer for the FRE-CSA team to drive the design and remediation of data center structures.

You will lead multi-disciplinary efforts, review designs, and provide technical direction for improvements across global data centers while coordinating with internal teams. You will travel domestically up to 50% to audit, inspect, and develop design packages for both existing and future sites.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of building codes and regulations for your region.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Structural Engineering.
• 2+ years of data center or mission critical facilities experience, or 2+ years of construction or project management experience.
• Experience reading and interpreting construction drawings and specifications, or experience reading and writing procedures, technical documents, and engineering drawings.
• Travel up to 50% domestic travel with short notice.
• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents.
• Experience in data center or mission critical facility design with basic multidisciplinary knowledge of mission critical systems.
• Professional Civil/Structural Engineering (PE) License.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of multi-disciplinary professionals on a wide variety of conceptual design, build, and retrofit projects at existing data center.
• Create, review and release data center structural improvements and designs.
• Drive refin refinements to the Basis of Design, product development, sustainability, and template specifications for structural systems to support continuous improvement of future data center designs.
• Serve as a technical advisor for projects including; review of foundation and structural systems.
• Create, review and release structural design RFPs.
• Manage external structural design consultants through the audit, design and implementation of a variety of projects while coordinating with internal engineering, construction and other stakeholder teams.
• Lead initiatives aimed at improving quality, schedule, consistency or reducing costs to in-flight and future data center construction and improvement projects.
• Work on multiple data center build and capital improvement projects simultaneously without compromising safety and availability constraints.

Skills

Construction drawings interpretation

Reading and interpreting specs

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Structural Engineering

PE License (Civil/Structural)

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Structural Engineer for the FRE-CSA team to drive the design and remediation of data center structures.

You will lead multi-disciplinary efforts, review designs, and provide technical direction for improvements across global data centers while coordinating with internal teams. You will travel domestically up to 50% to audit, inspect, and develop design packages for both existing and future sites.