Data Center Engineering Operations Engineer, DCEO

Amazon is looking for an 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, this team works to ensure 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.

The Data Center Engineering Operation engineer is responsible for ensuring that all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the data center is operating within contract parameters within third party Colocation facilities. Often this will be including risk management and mitigation, corrective and preventative maintenance of critical infrastructure, vendor management and metric reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Collection of data, conduct analysis and prepare reports on all aspects of the critical facility operations and maintenance

• Responsible for the on-site management of sub-contractors, vendors, colocation providers to ensure all work performed is in accordance with operation procedures and safety requirement

• Responsible for the operation of and management of both routine and emergency services on a variety of critical facilities such as: switchgear, generators, UPS systems, power distribution equipment, chillers, cooling towers, computer room air handlers, etc.

• Support data center capacity planning, asset and inventory management

• Operate and maintain mechanical and electrical equipment

• Perform root cause analysis of equipment failures

• Troubleshooting of facility and rack-level events within internal SLA

• Ensure all safety procedures are adhered to while performing work

• Retrieve and analyze daily operational readings of all mechanical and electrical equipment

• Utilize internal CMMS to manage building workflows

• May assist in the design and build out of new facilities

• May assist in projects to increase current Facility efficiency

• Work with stakeholders to coordinate projects, manage capacity, and optimize plant safety, performance, reliability and efficiency

• Procurement of engineering operations related tools, setup and expenditure

• Contribute to the overall availability and reliability of data centre operations

• Support hardware and network diagnostics and physical repair

• Install equipment, create documentation and innovate solutions

• Candidates must be able to work both independently and as part of a team.

• Able to work on 12 hours shift

Key job responsibilities
The Data Center Engineering Operation Engineer is responsible for ensuring that all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the data center is operating within contract parameters within facilities. Often this will be including risk management and mitigation, corrective and preventative maintenance of critical infrastructure, vendor management and metric reporting.

• Act as the site point of contact for internal and external stakeholders involving communication and relationship management.

• Meet daily hours of operations, on call requirements and response during rotations.

• Manage minor and support major planned and unplanned site works for critical infrastructure, with a solid understanding of the works involved, risks, mitigation and seeking approvals within relevant SLA's as required.

• Responsible for the on-site management of contractors, sub-contractors and vendors, ensuring that all work performed is in accordance with established practices, procedures & local legislation.

• Assist in establishment of performance benchmarks, conduct analysis, and prepare reports on all aspects of the data center facility infrastructure operations and maintenance.

• Generate change management requests & incident management tickets for DCEO activities.

• Work with DCO managers (IT), Networking, Logistics, Safety, Security and other business leaders and operating partners to coordinate projects, manage capacity, and optimize plant safety, performance, reliability, sustainability and efficiency.

• Establish documentation relevant to technical support of business & facility operations.

• Support, implement projects to increase current facility capacity, efficiency, sustainability & reliability.

• Support operating partners in the resolution of any infrastructure engineering issues

A day in the life

• Troubleshoot facility and rack-level events within internal Service Level Agreements (SLA).

• Perform rack installs, rack decommissioning, and facility management.

• Provide operational readings and key performance indicators to make sure uptime is maintained

• Responsible for the on-site management of contractors, sub-contractors and vendors, ensuring that all work performed is in accordance with established practices, procedures & local legislation.

• Performance and oversight of maintenance and operations on all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the data center.

• Work schedule changes depending on specific site needs. Shifts can be up to 12-hours and may rotate on a predefined schedule. Some locations have on-call rotations.

About the team
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Basic Qualifications:
- High school or equivalent diploma

Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of data center engineering experience

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