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Principal Availability Engineer, DCE Availability
Amazon.comUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 12 Aug 2024
💰 $252,900/yr($146,300/yr – $252,900/yr)
About the role
Availability Engineers are responsible for consultative and peer review of the design of all design disciplines within Amazon DCs world-wide. Beyond design focus, we work directly with operations, security teams, field engineering, construction management, and operations to implement processes and procedures, that are functional, practical and innovative with a primary focus on improvement of system availability.
As an Availability Engineer, you will be evaluating the impact of data center products and features to meet ever-evolving customer needs as we continue expanding our fleet to hyper-scale. As an ideal candidate you:
• Possess Strong Engineering Judgement and are able to provide recommendations despite uncertainty
• Are detail- and data- oriented
• Have experience managing engineering projects and consultants.
• Build trust and relationships with different stakeholders (e.g., Operations, Commissioning, Construction and Design)
• Be inclined to get into the field to see things up close.
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 availability focusing on the actions that are most impactful. You will have the responsibility to think globally about all initiatives.
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. 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 we’re looking for talented people who want to help.
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. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
Key job responsibilities
Availability Engineers provide the following deliverables:
• Auditing and peer reviewing DC Infrastructure Engineering designs with focus on Availability
• Perform an engineering-oriented analysis of past availability events
• Providing technical oversight for global COE action items
• Developing availability forecast models
• Oversight & review availability performance metrics
• Providing multi root cause categorical analysis for availability events
• Oversight & review Failure Mode and Effect Analysis studies
• Conceive, initiate, and lead availability projects with widespread impact on infrastructure design, innovation, and implementation.
• Set the standard for customer serving coordination and repeatable processes as they relate to engineering, test, construction, commissioning, operations, and best practices. Drives process improvements across the organizations to drive increase in availability to meet customer expectation.
• Providing technical oversight of the Regional Electrical and Mechanical Basis of Design (BOD), Construction Documentation, SoWs, procurement initiatives, supplier management, commissioning scripts, operation and maintenance manuals and procedures, and all relevant products and processes that drive and impact availability.
• Serving as a technical advisor for AWS data center electrical, mechanical, structural, site, civil, security, network, fire detection and suppression and all design disciplines as they relate to and drive increased availability.
• Working with internal teams to understand customer availability requirements
• Providing technical oversight and review for LSE/CSE COE
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.
Cumulative 3+ years partnering with cross-functional teams working in critical facilities
Cumulative 10+ years of experience with mission critical facilities to include the following:
1. Understanding of uninterruptible power sources, diesel generators, electrical switchgear, power distribution units, and automatic/static transfer switches. 2. Understanding of chillers, cooling towers, direct and indirect evaporative cooing, and variable speed drives, and fan systems. 3. Knowledge of building codes and regulations including Life Safety, IBC, NFPA, NEC, NESC and OSHA. 4. Direct experience with the design, construction, operation, or maintenance of data centers. 5. Ability to research new designs, technologies, construction methods, and innovative operations procedures of data ce
As an Availability Engineer, you will be evaluating the impact of data center products and features to meet ever-evolving customer needs as we continue expanding our fleet to hyper-scale. As an ideal candidate you:
• Possess Strong Engineering Judgement and are able to provide recommendations despite uncertainty
• Are detail- and data- oriented
• Have experience managing engineering projects and consultants.
• Build trust and relationships with different stakeholders (e.g., Operations, Commissioning, Construction and Design)
• Be inclined to get into the field to see things up close.
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 availability focusing on the actions that are most impactful. You will have the responsibility to think globally about all initiatives.
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. 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 we’re looking for talented people who want to help.
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. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
Key job responsibilities
Availability Engineers provide the following deliverables:
• Auditing and peer reviewing DC Infrastructure Engineering designs with focus on Availability
• Perform an engineering-oriented analysis of past availability events
• Providing technical oversight for global COE action items
• Developing availability forecast models
• Oversight & review availability performance metrics
• Providing multi root cause categorical analysis for availability events
• Oversight & review Failure Mode and Effect Analysis studies
• Conceive, initiate, and lead availability projects with widespread impact on infrastructure design, innovation, and implementation.
• Set the standard for customer serving coordination and repeatable processes as they relate to engineering, test, construction, commissioning, operations, and best practices. Drives process improvements across the organizations to drive increase in availability to meet customer expectation.
• Providing technical oversight of the Regional Electrical and Mechanical Basis of Design (BOD), Construction Documentation, SoWs, procurement initiatives, supplier management, commissioning scripts, operation and maintenance manuals and procedures, and all relevant products and processes that drive and impact availability.
• Serving as a technical advisor for AWS data center electrical, mechanical, structural, site, civil, security, network, fire detection and suppression and all design disciplines as they relate to and drive increased availability.
• Working with internal teams to understand customer availability requirements
• Providing technical oversight and review for LSE/CSE COE
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.
Cumulative 3+ years partnering with cross-functional teams working in critical facilities
Cumulative 10+ years of experience with mission critical facilities to include the following:
1. Understanding of uninterruptible power sources, diesel generators, electrical switchgear, power distribution units, and automatic/static transfer switches. 2. Understanding of chillers, cooling towers, direct and indirect evaporative cooing, and variable speed drives, and fan systems. 3. Knowledge of building codes and regulations including Life Safety, IBC, NFPA, NEC, NESC and OSHA. 4. Direct experience with the design, construction, operation, or maintenance of data centers. 5. Ability to research new designs, technologies, construction methods, and innovative operations procedures of data ce
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