Mission-Critical Data Center Technician

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Avondale (AZ); On-site; USD 78,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. seeks a Data Center Engineering Technician to perform hands-on electrical and mechanical maintenance across mission-critical facilities.

You will monitor, troubleshoot, and repair essential systems including generators, switchgear, UPS, PDUs, and cooling equipment to help sustain 99.999% uptime. This role requires travel between data center sites, willingness to work up to 12-hour shifts, and collaboration with diverse teams to ensure safety, efficiency, and compliance

Qualifications

• 2+ years of electrical and mechanical facilities maintenance, or 2+ years of electrical facilities maintenance and 1+ years of mechanical facilities maintenance experience.
• 2+ years of Microsoft Office products and applications experience.
• 2+ years of data center engineering experience.
• Experience reading and writing procedures, technical documents, and engineering drawings.

Responsibilities

• Daily building rounds to monitor electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment.
• Monitor Building Management Systems (BMS) and Electrical Power Management System (EPMS).
• Assist in troubleshooting facility and rack-level events within SLA.
• Perform rack installs and decommissioning within 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 compliance with practices and local legislation.
• Shift work can be up to 12 hours and may rotate; some locations have on-call rotations.
• Role may support more than one location/site.

Skills

Electrical & mechanical maintenance

Microsoft Office

Data center engineering

Procedures reading

Engineering drawings

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. seeks a Data Center Engineering Technician to perform hands-on electrical and mechanical maintenance across mission-critical facilities.

You will monitor, troubleshoot, and repair essential systems including generators, switchgear, UPS, PDUs, and cooling equipment to help sustain 99.999% uptime. This role requires travel between data center sites, willingness to work up to 12-hour shifts, and collaboration with diverse teams to ensure safety, efficiency, and compliance