Facility Operations Center Engineer

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.

The Data Center Global Services organization is looking for an individual with proven and tested leadership skills to help bring to fruition a newly developed Facilities Operations Center. The Facility Operations Center is responsible for 24X7 monitoring of the data center’s physical infrastructure and will serve as a facilitator for all Large Scale Events. This team will ensure that the customer experience will be optimal and gratifying by way of consistency, reliability and attention to detail.

The ideal candidate will need to have an understanding of data center IT Infrastructure and data center Facilities infrastructure and how the two entities co-exist. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing assistance and support to the onsite team. The position will help ensure overall availability and reliability to meet or exceed defined service levels. Qualified candidates must also have experience functioning in a large-scale data center and have demonstrated and displayed the ability to think outside of the box. This skill is essential, as the candidate will assist with aligning the Facility Operations Center with the larger objectives of other business and peer organizations. You will need to play a role with growing the team to a standard of operational excellence.

If you are passionate about the Customer Experience; you think and act globally; and you want to contribute to the operational excellence of Amazon Data Centers, then this may be the challenge you’ve been looking for!

Internal job description

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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Work/Life Balance

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Key job responsibilities

Monitors the global data center Amazon facilities infrastructure platform

Serves as a Point of Contact for internal and external teams

Assists with the development of communication and escalation protocols designed to improve the team’s performance

Contributes to outage post mortem analysis

Ensures records are updated in a timely manner

Assists with coordination and communication during emergency recovery efforts

Assists with the development of tools that will enhance the team’s performance

Ability to support a 24X7 environment (This is shift work which may require that you work weekends and holidays)