Regional Chief Engineer, Operations, DCEO

Regional Chief Engineer, Operations, DCEO

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. The Data Center Chief Engineer (CE) is responsible for ensuring that all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the data center is operating at peak efficiency. This includes planned preventative maintenance, daily corrective work, and emergency response to emergent issues. The CE reports to the Data Center Facility Manager and works closely with Engineering Operations Technicians (EOT) and third‑party vendors. The CE supports Amazon’s owned and operated data centers, maintaining equipment with better than 99.999% uptime.

The role includes managing small‑to‑medium impacting projects from conception to completion, collaborating with multiple teams for engineering, automation, processing, and finance, and driving innovation and resiliency while reducing operational costs.

Key job 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 standardised 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 preventive maintenance activities on all mission‑critical infrastructure.
• Collaborating effectively with third‑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.
• The successful delivery of build‑out and retrofit of facility infrastructure in existing and new regional locations through a 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 with 7x24x365 operational experience & responsibilities.
• 10+ years’ 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 technical issues by delivering root‑cause remediation and 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 a 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 in 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.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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