Regional Data Center Engineering Lead – 100% Uptime & Safety

Amazon Inc.; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 139,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. seeks a detail-oriented Data Center Engineering Operations leader to maintain 100% uptime of critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure and to uphold world-class safety standards across all procedures.

You will drive standardization, mentor staff, collaborate with engineers and vendors, and deliver strategic projects while ensuring scalable, reliable operations across regional data centers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent.
• 10+ years of relevant work in a data center or other critical environment, or 10+ years of relevant discipline work experience.
• Experience with cross functional project or program delivery.
• Experience managing and negotiating contracts and vendor relationships.
• Regional data center engineering operations experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Setting and maintaining the highest standards for safety and actively promoting a world-class safety culture in all aspects of operational procedure.
• Driving continuous improvement efforts on infrastructure through standardization of procedures and policies, while delivering performance against agreed metrics.
• Working closely with the Operations Principal Engineer, site Chief Engineers and broader operations teams to streamline maintenance procedures, and implement standardized risk assessment protocols.
• Enabling the operations organisation to delivering 100% uptime on all customer supporting infrastructure.
• Training and mentoring technical operations staff members on the execution of all corrective and preventative maintenance activities on all mission-critical infrastructure.
• Collaborating effectively with 3rd party providers to deliver operational excellence for all AWS customers.
• Innovation and delivery of a portfolio of strategic projects on critical infrastructure to ensure class-leading performance.
• The successful delivery of build-out and retrofit of facility infrastructure in existing and new regional locations through a deep technical review and execution of construction & commissioning activities by contracted providers.
• Ensuring organizational capability to react & respond appropriately to any potential customer impacting event on any component of electrical or mechanical infrastructure.
• Elevating capabilities of site chief engineers and EOT’s, establish training requirements, coordinate operational readiness testing (LLT, MOT, CCT), LSE/CSE drill & CST programs.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Contract negotiation

Vendor management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. seeks a detail-oriented Data Center Engineering Operations leader to maintain 100% uptime of critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure and to uphold world-class safety standards across all procedures.

You will drive standardization, mentor staff, collaborate with engineers and vendors, and deliver strategic projects while ensuring scalable, reliable operations across regional data centers.