Night Shift Data Center Engineer: Critical Infra & Uptime

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Stafford (VA); On-site; USD 44,083 - 78,523; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Data Center Engineering Operations Technician to maintain critical electrical, mechanical, and life safety systems.

You will troubleshoot mission-critical equipment such as diesel generators, switchgear, UPS, chillers, and cooling towers to ensure 24/7 reliability in AWS data centers. The role entails preventative maintenance, incident response, and collaboration with engineers worldwide to implement emerging technologies, with potential travel to

Qualifications

• High school or equivalent diploma.
• 1+ years of electrical or mechanical, or 1+ years of data center or mission critical facilities experience.
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above.

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 internal 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 site needs; shifts up to 12 hours and may rotate; some locations have on-call rotations.
• Role may support more than one location/site.

Skills

Electrical systems

Mechanical systems

Troubleshooting

Preventive maintenance

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

BMS

EPMS

UPS

Diesel generators

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Data Center Engineering Operations Technician to maintain critical electrical, mechanical, and life safety systems.

You will troubleshoot mission-critical equipment such as diesel generators, switchgear, UPS, chillers, and cooling towers to ensure 24/7 reliability in AWS data centers. The role entails preventative maintenance, incident response, and collaboration with engineers worldwide to implement emerging technologies, with potential travel to