Principal Electrical Engineer Data Centre Engineering H/F

Les missions du poste

Shape the future of cloud infrastructure by designing next‑generation data centre electrical systems that power global innovation. In this role, you'll lead cross‑functional teams to solve complex technical challenges, drive standardization across colocation partnerships, and influence AWS's infrastructure strategy at the highest levels.

The Data Center Principal Electrical Engineer has the ability to understand customer demand as well as the technology and business opportunities that exist in order to lead the organization forward. You understand key problems and propose and analyze multiple solutions to produce the most efficient, cost‑effective, resilient, and scalable electrical designs achievable.

The Principal Electrical Engineer provides the vision, rationale, and recommendations to leadership teams from AWS and our colocation partners for next‑generation data centre design, while ensuring current systems meet performance and operational standards.

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. It supports all AWS data centres and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply‑chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll 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.

Key job responsibilities

• From many years of applicable experience, you understand the key aspects of legacy and modern data centre electrical systems and identify improvement areas in existing and next‑generation colocation data centre designs to address high capital/operational costs, reduced efficiencies, high levels of maintenance, security issues, and safety risks.
• You conceive, initiate, and lead projects with widespread impact on infrastructure design, innovation, and implementation.
• You are responsible for and provide oversight for the review of the electrical design and construction of new colocation data centres and drive alignment between colocation and AWS data centre standards.
• You demonstrate ability to review business cases and analysis models including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI) to select projects and designs.
• You are responsible for and oversee the creation of colocation data centre basis of design and project specifications to drive standardization in the data centre electrical performance.
• You decompose complex problems or new technologies or topologies to distill underlying risks and benefits, and identify straightforward and actionable solutions to reduce risk.
• You work closely with hardware designers to optimise the interfaces between the IT equipment and colocation facilities as well as understand the future trends and initiatives in IT equipment and infrastructure technology, communicating these to internal and colocation vendor design teams.
• You actively and aggressively grow and coach the engineering team through group forums and one‑on‑one coaching and mentoring to ensure development and promotion of the top engineers inside Amazon.
• You oversee and plan engineering goals for key initiatives that support future projects and growth.
• You work independently and have frequent reviews with business leadership, other Principal Engineers, and Senior Engineers across AWS.
• You actively facilitate the escalation of low‑level project and product issues to senior engineering and business leadership.
• Amazon has a global presence; therefore, 30% to 40% travel will be necessary. International support will be part of the job, and some international travel will be necessary. Support could consist of working on international teams and could require developing schematic and design document packages. An understanding of international electrical design requirements is preferable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of experience with MV and LV power systems and electrical design with at least 5 years in data centres or high availability applications.
• Extensive experience designing electrical systems for data centres or similar large‑scale infrastructure environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in electrical power distribution, backup power systems, and facility infrastructure design.
• Experience leading cross‑functional technical teams and collaborating with multiple engineering disciplines.
• Proficiency with electrical design tools and analysis software.
• Master's degree or higher in electrical engineering.
• Proven experience in data centre construction, operations, or maintenance.
• Deep technical knowledge of protection schemes, transformers, UPS, diesel generators, switchgear, PDUs, VFDs, and ATS/STS systems.
• Strong command of regional and …