Regional Chief Engineer

Job ID: | Amazon Data Services France SAS

Amazon is looking for a detail-oriented individual to join our Data Center Engineering Operations Team. This committed group works to maintain the critical physical infrastructure that supports Amazon Web Services. Specifically, the team ensures that the data center's MEP operates at 100% availability while maintaining first‑class customer service to the teams and groups within the data centers. As the Data Center Chief Engineer (CE), you will be responsible for ensuring that all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the data center is operating at peak efficiency. This involves planned preventive maintenance, daily corrective work, and emergency response to emergent issues. The CE is the singular focal point for all facility operations within a given data center, supporting Amazon’s owned and operated data centers. Must maintain better than 99.999% uptime for equipment supporting mission‑critical servers. You will manage small‑to‑medium impacting projects from conception to completion, collaborate with engineering, automation, processing, and finance teams, and deliver strategic projects that drive innovation, resiliency, and cost reductions.

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 standardisation 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 deliver 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
• Delivering build‑out and retrofit of facility infrastructure in existing and new regional locations through deep technical review and execution of construction & commissioning activities by contracted providers
• Ensuring organisational 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, establishing training requirements, coordinating operational readiness testing (LLT, MOT, CCT), LSE/CSE drill & CST programs

Basic Qualifications

• 15+ years’ experience in a high‑volume mission‑critical operational environment (e.g., data centre, healthcare, high technology manufacturing, large‑scale production, aviation maintenance) preferably 7x24x365 operational experience & responsibilities
• 10+ year’s relevant leadership experience in an engineering/technical environment for medium to large scale engineering operations (preferably electrical and mechanical)
• Demonstrable capability to form and lead tactical response teams to resolve specific technical issues by delivering root‑cause remediation and successful timely implementation
• Proven experience of strategic project/portfolio management delivering medium and large‑scale technical projects
• An ability to deliver results in highly complex, technically challenging situations where collaboration across multiple teams is required
• Ability to prioritise in complex environment
• Strong IT skills; experience and knowledge of MS Office suite
• Strong verbal and written communication skills at all levels within the organisation, with a requirement to have excellent communications skills through English
• A history of working with geographically separated teams to deliver speedy solutions to technical issues that can be quickly deployed across multiple geographies

Preferred Qualifications

• Associates or Bachelors in applicable engineering field or mechanical or electrical trades
• Operating engineering licenses such as DC II, DC III, or equivalent
• Stationary Engineering or Building Engineering License
• Electrical or mechanical Journeyman License, CFC license, NFPA 70E
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Solid leadership and organisational skills

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