Sr. Power Generation Engineer - Availability, Global Energy (AWS)

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 136,600 - 184,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Sr. Power Generation Engineer to join Availability, Global Energy. You will design and model power generation configurations to ensure data center uptime across grid-connected and islanded setups.

Responsibilities include developing availability models for multiple generation sources, interpreting electrical drawings, leading cross‑regional projects, and collaborating with design and field teams. A Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years in mission‑critical facilities are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
• 6+ years in industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities.
• Experience with availability modeling and high/low voltage equipment data.
• Ability to interpret electrical drawings and data.
• Strong analytical capability for MTBF/MTTR metrics.

Responsibilities

• Develop availability models for various power generation sources for data centers.
• Evaluate SLDs, drawings, submittals to advance concepts.
• Provide feedback to design/field engineering for upgrades.
• Lead cross-regional projects and teams.
• Understand grid interconnection standards and microgrid design.

Skills

Power systems analysis

Availability modeling

Data center operations

Lead / team leadership

Data interpretation

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Professional Engineer License

Tools

ReliaSoft

Python

MATLAB

SAS

Job description

Sr. Power Generation Engineer - Availability, Global Energy

Job ID: 3196322 | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

Are you passionate about large power infrastructure systems? Do you love to innovate, discover, and apply your knowledge to advance world‑class systems? Do you get excited about the idea of pushing the boundaries of power system availability? We are seeking an experienced electrical engineer with extensive experience in power infrastructure design, including power generation, and reliability and availability modeling to support our growing requirements for novel solutions to delivering power to AWS data centers. We are looking for candidates with proven ability to influence technical teams, a track record of delivering complex power systems from design and specification through deployment, and a deep understanding of availability modeling.

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), our data centers are industry‑leading examples of innovation in the areas of data center critical infrastructure design, space utilization, energy efficiency, and cost effectiveness. We are known for our speed to market, reliability, and lowest total cost of ownership. Our Engineers are on the forefront of creating and delivering the most innovative products to our customers and are known for being a diverse and upbeat team that is continually improving the world of cloud computing. We continue to grow and are looking for individuals that can support our mission, enjoy a challenge, and have a desire for professional growth and continuous learning. AWS’s work environment is unique and offers an exceptional opportunity for the right candidate. If you are a creative, smart, and driven individual that enjoys working with complex problems, we want YOU!

Key job responsibilities

• Developing availability models and analysis of different power generation sources (including, but not limited to; utility sources, diesel generators, reciprocating engines, gas turbines, fuel cells, battery energy storage systems, and renewable energy) to serve data center loads in grid connected or grid independent configurations
• Support the development of power generation configurations for different applications, including primary, temporary, or backup power
• Understanding the design and functionality of the global data center fleet, including existing, upcoming, and unique site designs
• Interpreting, evaluating, and developing Single Line Drawings (SLD), engineering drawings, equipment submittals, equipment specifications documentation, and performance data to advance concepts and solutions
• Providing feedback to the Design Engineering teams for design revisions for new data centers as well as to Field Engineering for operational data center upgrades
• Understanding grid interconnection standards and requirements, including working on microgrid design and controls, and distributed energy resources
• Working on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions
• Being a leader within the group as well as within other teams
• Being positive and offer creative, out of the box solutions
• Having fun and working hard!

About the team

The Power Generation Solutions team creates and delivers product and engineering solutions in for power and energy to help advance AWS’ mission to deliver world‑leading cloud services. Our solutions are guided by four main principles; unlocking capacity growth, maintaining high infrastructure uptime, minimizing infrastructure costs, and advancing our net‑zero carbon Climate Pledge. To deliver these solutions, our team provides technical input to realize a shared vision and strategy with partner teams and provides engineering support across the project or product lifecycle to deliver the solution. We also provide grid analytics and manage and develop models for determining the total energy and water use within our fleet of data centers and work with partners on improving overall performance.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
• 6+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities experience
• Knowledge of electrical systems in critical Data Center operations that include but are not limited to utility substation feeds, transformers, switchgear, VFI Class UPS, DRUPS, PDUs, ATS, STS, SLA/VRLA batteries and associated systems, diesel/gas turbine generators and related fuel systems, Surge Suppression, Active Harmonic Filtering, battery monitoring systems, branch circuit monitoring systems or SCADA systems
• Experience constructing electrical engineering systems including large scale power distribution/generation gear and mechanical engineering systems including cooling systems
• Experience with availability modeling software (ReliaSoft or similar software), familiarity with Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), outage data, and maintenance data of key high voltage, medium voltage, and low voltage electrical distribution equipment, energy storage equipment, and power generation equipment
• Ability to interpret wiring diagrams, single and three‑line diagrams, P&ID drawings, submittals, sequence of operations, and mechanical and electrical drawing packages.
• Ability to analyze data and provide quantitative answers for outage rates, probability of outages, mean‑time‑between‑failures (MTBF), mean‑time‑to‑repair (MTTR), and additional metrics to evaluate power availability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
• Professional Engineer License
• 10+ years of data center or mission critical facilities (example: hospital, military facility, public safety facility, etc.) experience
• Familiarity with power flow studies, substation design, protection coordination, and utility interconnection requirements, emerging power generation and energy storage technologies, and power distribution for large scale mission critical facilities.
• System Matter Expert level of understanding of both electrical equipment and designs related to data centers and power generation equipment
• Experience with gathering, compiling, and analyzing data to identify availability and/or performance risks within the design and operations of critical power infrastructure, including an understanding of data analysis methodologies and statistical techniques.
• Ability to produce analyses that ensure data centers satisfy defined design requirements, including availability goals, power quality specifications, and predicted performance targets.
• Experience with developing solutions and executing plans on fast‑track design/build projects and/or multiple significant upgrade projects
• Experience with commissioning and/or performance testing of critical infrastructure and the associated controls systems for mission critical environments
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, R), or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R, SAS, Matlab, etc.)
• Possess excellent attention to detail and communication skills in order to maintain high quality standards for being organized, setting priorities, meeting deadlines, and staying within budgets
• Possess leadership and problem‑solving skills

Base salary range: USA, TX, Austin - 136,600.00 - 184,800.00 USD annually; USA, TX, Houston - 136,600.00 - 184,800.00 USD annually; USA, VA, Herndon - 136,600.00 - 184,800.00 USD annually; USA, WA, Seattle - 136,600.00 - 184,800.00 USD annually.

Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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