Chief Engineer, Data Center Engineering Operations, Data Center Engineering Operations

Do you want to work on the worlds largest Cloud Computing Infrastructure Then we have the perfect job for you!

Mid 2013 our Amazon Web Services S3 web service accepted its 2 trillionth object and that the service is regularly peaking at over 1.1 million requests per second. To keep up with this demand on both disk and network capacity we continue to expand our Data Centers in every region. This requires talented people to build & manage. We hope it is you!

We are currently looking for an experienced detail-oriented individual to join our Data Center Engineering Operations Team. This committed group works to maintain the critical physical infrastructure that supports our Data Center Organization within Amazon. Specifically this team works to ensure that the data center operate at 100% availability while maintaining first-class customer service to the teams and groups within the data centers.

The Data Center Engineering Operations Technician (EOT) is responsible for operating and maintaining all electrical mechanical and fire/life safety equipment within the data center. The EOT serves as a technical resource to support Amazon within its owned and operated data centers. This is data center equipment that supports mission-critical servers must maintain better than 99.999% uptime. EOTs are also tasked with driving innovation while reducing operational costs in the facilities.

Amazon offers an exciting dynamic and challenging environment encouraging creativity and personal development while maintaining our computing environments in a secure scalable and cost-effective manner.

Responsibilities:
- You will assist in the operation and maintenance of all electricalmechanical and HVAC equipment within the Data Center/Facility.
- You will assist in maintenance and monitoring of all Data Center systems to include incidents/events problems changes monitoring problem escalation/notification/resolution and all other aspects of Data Center support.
- You will monitor and troubleshoot of all mechanical electrical HVAC systemsvoice/data chiller systems and generators.
- You will provide assistance to contractor or data center engineer to ensure proper operation and maintenance of all facility equipment covered under level I plus areas in which they are certified such as making and running fiber optic electrical certification HVAC repair (training/certification) UPS and or generator certifications and training.
- You will provide assistance to contractor or data center engineer to deploy new equipment such as building racks cabling and other tasks as necessary.
- You will responds to internal Rack customer maintenance repair and additions/expansion requests through the ticketing system
- You will perform site walkthroughs to verify proper operation of Facility Equipment and Monitoring Systems.
- You will maintain changes in state in Mission Critical infrastructure in support of corrective/ preventive maintenance.
- You will review the Test quality performance safety and reliability of products equipment processes.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS)
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global other words were the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers storage networking power and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain and were looking for talented people who want to help.
Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.


About the team
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- You have received a technical (Military/ Trade School) training and/or have similar experience in that field.
- You will have such electrical qualification(s) as are necessary to operate Low Voltage equipment in accordance with applicable German regulations (Elektrofachkraft)
- You have several years of relevant work experience ideally within Data Center operations.
- This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state.

- You have several years of working within a data center.
- You have an associates or Bachelors degree in applicable engineering field or mechanical or electrical trades.
- Certified electrician as per German regulations

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