Critical Infrastructure Electrical Engineer, Field Engineering

Job Description

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. 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 are looking for talented people who want to help.

Role

• Possess strong engineering judgement and can provide recommendations despite uncertainty or ambiguity.
• Possess excellent communication and writing skills, attention to detail, and maintain high quality standards.
• Organized and able to set priorities and meet deadlines and budget.
• Have experience solving problems with engineered solutions.
• Have experience managing engineering projects and consultants.
• Build trust and relationships with different stakeholders (e.g., Operations, Controls, Construction, Design, Commissioning, Product Managers, Technical Program Managers).
• Are adaptable and inclined to get into the field to see things up close.
• Excited about a mix of office and field work.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Perform design and equipment submittal review for new data centers in the region.
• Troubleshoot, conduct root cause analysis and create corrective action documentation for site/equipment failures.
• Directly support operational issues with ad‑hoc training, complex operating procedure reviews, including critical equipment, and event support.
• Own the conceptual design for existing data center upgrades and design solutions that add capacity, improve availability, increase efficiency, and sustainability.
• Interface with internal data center operations team, data center design engineering team, server hardware team, environmental health and safety team to promote standards that maintain consistency and reliability in services delivered.
• Work on concurrent projects, sometimes in multiple geographical regions.
• Initiate and lead engineering audits including on‑site visits within Amazon’s data centers, producing reports outlining risks with recommended mitigations and remediation.
• Act as resident engineer during new construction projects; support construction, commissioning, and turnover.

A Day in the Life

Each day you will interact with different teams responsible for all aspects of the data centers. You will prioritize your activities to support data center capacity availability and safety, focusing on the actions that are most impactful. You will have the opportunity to work on projects locally and globally.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience with mission‑critical facilities engineering including but not limited to data centers, power generation, oil & gas facilities.
• Business‑level fluency in written and spoken English.
• Willing to travel between data center sites, and internationally if required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Possess data analytics skills, data querying skills/language, scripting, and comfort with working in vast amounts of data in new and evolving environments.
• Direct experience with the design, construction, operation, or maintenance of mission‑critical facilities, especially data centers.
• Experience as resident engineer or hands‑on (in the field) design consultant or owner’s engineer.
• Knowledge of building codes and regulations for your region; experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents.
• Ability to carry design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production.
• Basic understanding of mechanical and/or electrical equipment/design related to data centers (e.g., uninterruptible power supplies, diesel generators, electrical switchgear, power distribution units, variable frequency drives, automatic/static transfer switches, chillers (air‑cooled and water‑cooled), pumps, cooling towers, heat exchangers, CRAHs, fans, air economizers, water treatment).
• EPMS/SCADA/BMS Controls system experience (software and/or hardware).
• Business‑level fluency in written and spoken French.

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