Amazon Web Services (AWS) is growing rapidly, and we are looking for a Decomm Universal Technician to join our expanding Infrastructure Operations team as part of our Work Based Learning Program (WBLP). Amazon has multiple WBLP trainee openings, and will start all technicians the first or third Monday of every month. These trainees will participate in our 12-week work and training program in our Northern Virginia facilities. This includes, but is not limited to: VA (Manassas, Herndon, Chantilly, Auburn), given availability. This position requires the successful candidate report to a site location.

Physical Requirements:
• Walk, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch. Work at heights from ladders.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 40 pounds unassisted; and participate in group lists for 41 pounds or more
• Must be able to lift loads of up to 40 pounds and carry them for short distances
• Continuously climb and descend stairs safely (applies to sites with stairs)
• Reach and stretch to position equipment and fixtures while maintaining balance
• Push or pull heavy objects into position
• Daily travel between sites may be required
• Ability to stand for long periods of time

NOTE: Amazon does not sponsor for immigration, including for H-1B, TN, and other non-immigrant visas, for this role.
NOTE: A lump sum stipend will be provided to eligible candidates who need to relocate for this position.
NOTE: If applying for positions in Oregon (OR) and Ohio (OH), these sites are within AWS GovCloud region. Effective May 15, 2017, logical access to the AWS GovCloud region will be restricted to Amazon employees who are U.S. Citizens (GovCloud may NOT be accessed from outside of the United States).


Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities:
• Installing new rack equipment
• Decommissioning existing racks
• Repairing and diagnosing broken servers
• Handling computer equipment and parts
• Managing network gear during installation, decommissioning, and repair
All candidates should be willing to work both independently and with a team. Work prioritization, organization skills, effective communication, and the ability to react quickly are critical to being successful.

About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps millions of customers every day achieve their business goals in an ever-changing digital economy. As the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, we recognize the global need for IT infrastructure services to deliver fast, scalable results. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently hiring for an Engineering Technician to support our data centers. The Engineering Technician will help ensure overall availability and reliability to meet or exceed defined service levels of data center operations.
The Data Center Engineering Technician will be responsible for ensuring the overall operation and maintenance of all electrical, mechanical, and HVAC equipment within the data center. This equipment supports mission-critical servers and must maintain better than 99.999% uptime. The Data Center Engineering Technician will continue to maintain high reliability and performance while keeping operating costs in facilities at a minimum.
Engineering Technicians are Amazon’s front line when it comes to hands-on electrical and mechanical equipment troubleshooting. They will maintain, operate, and troubleshoot, Data Center Operation’s Mission Critical Facilities, which includes stand-by diesel generators and related fuel systems, as well as three phase electrical systems such as: switch gear, UPSs, PDUs, wet cell batteries and associated systems, CRAC, centrifugal chillers, cooling towers/water chemical system, air handlers and associated systems, pumps, & motors.

Responsibilities:

• Supervise contractors who perform servicing or preventive maintenance
• Perform limited maintenance tasks to include: filter changes, battery system PMs, and Rack PDU & Rack ATS replacements
• Perform root cause analysis for operational issues
• Troubleshoot facility and rack level events
• Ensure all personnel on-site follow safety protocols
• Work on-call and a rotating schedule as needed
• Take daily operational readings and provide metrics reporting to senior engineers
• Perform basic support concepts such as ticketing systems, root cause analysis, and task prioritization

Physical Requirements:
All physical requirements are expected with reasonable accommodations

• Walk job sites in uneven terrain
• Work at heights and from ladders
• Regularly walk, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or craw
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 49 pounds; and participate in group lifts for 50 pounds or more
• Carry objects weighing up to 49 pounds for short distances
• Work shifts longer than eight hours in duration
• Respond to off hour emergency calls
• Maintain balance and perform construction tasks while on a ladder
• Coordinate body movements when using tools or equipment

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop celebrating our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We have a career path for you no matter what stage you’re in when you start here. As we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer, we know we must continuously raise our performance bar. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home. Finding purpose and fulfillment is essential across all aspects of our lives, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Amazon Web Services is seeking a bright, motivated, hardworking individual to fill the DOT Compliance Specialist role. The successful candidate will be highly organized, extremely detail oriented, self-motivated, able to handle confidential information, as well as a demonstrated ability to respond effectively to changing workloads and priorities. Must have the ability to communicate well and to manage multiple assignments simultaneously. Other responsibilities will include:



Key job responsibilities
• Serve as designated safety representative coordinating and implementing all areas of the Amazon Global Driver Safety Program
• Assist with accident response, documentation, and escalation through internal and external programs.
• Provide administrative support, project management and high-volume data management
• Track performance and provide identified retraining and process improvement opportunities to further develop driver training
• Provide timely and accurate reporting on the completion of trainings, compliance, safety duties
• Communicate driver safety bulletins and updated policy announcements to management and drivers
• Create new training content to address gaps in driver skill, or mitigate safety and compliance risk
• Educate and audit driver safety and compliance standards such as: driver vehicle inspection reports, hours of service, trip planning and safe road driving practices
• Implement and review Amazon’s global safety policies, ensuring that local legislative requirements are also met
• Identify and inform management of compliance issues, safety risks, and improvement opportunities through the conduct of daily, weekly, and monthly audits
• Create, review and update procedures as required
• Identify new technology and implement its use to improve overall compliance goals.
• Process new vehicle on-boarding request to ensure safety standards a being adhered
• Manage ticketing system and ensure tickets are closed within expected timeline
• Consolidate data from multiple sources to support daily workflow and business needs

How would you like to be a part of Earth’s most customer-centric company? You would work with teams of front-line responders who support the operations of some of the world’s most powerful data centers. Our Data Center Engineering Operations team maintain and operate our critical infrastructure systems so that they are prepared to stand up against any situation.

AWS has the world’s largest cloud computing portfolio. As an Amazonian you will work in some of the most sophisticated, safe, and secure data centers in the world. Our Engineering Operations Technicians II (EOT’s) help keep them that way by working with the brightest minds from around the globe to help test and implement the newest technology and work practices to meet the demands of a changing market.

We have a passion for learning and evolving, it’s how we have helped define ourselves as leaders in the industry. Let’s work hard, have fun, and make history!

Day in the Life of an EOT II:

· Tasked with driving innovation while reducing operational costs in the facilities.
· Drive projects with moderate complexity.
· Assist in troubleshooting of facility and rack-level events within internal Service Level Agreements (SLA).
· Perform rack installs, rack decommissioning, operational readings and facility management.
· Provide key performance indicators to senior engineers.
· 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.
· Ensure all safety procedures are adhered to while performing work.
· Perform basic support concepts such as ticketing systems, root cause analysis, change management creation, writing procedures and building management systems.
· 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.
· Maintain data center critical infrastructure equipment ensuring 99.999% uptime of the world's largest cloud computing portfolio.
· Role may support more than one location/site.
· Walk job sites in uneven terrain. Maintain balance and perform construction tasks while on a ladder
· Regularly lift and/or move up to 39 pounds unassisted and participate in group lifts for 40+ pounds
Regularly walk, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, climb stairs, twist, bend, work above shoulders, grasp, carry, push and pull.

How would you like to be a part of Earth’s most customer-centric company? You would work with teams of front-line responders who support the operations of some of the world’s most powerful data centers. Our Data Center Engineering Operations team maintain and operate our critical infrastructure systems so that they are prepared to stand up against any situation.

AWS has the world’s largest cloud computing portfolio. As an Amazonian you will work in some of the most sophisticated, safe, and secure data centers in the world. Our Engineering Operations Technicians II (EOT’s) help keep them that way by working with the brightest minds from around the globe to help test and implement the newest technology and work practices to meet the demands of a changing market.

We have a passion for learning and evolving, it’s how we have helped define ourselves as leaders in the industry. Let’s work hard, have fun, and make history!

Day in the Life of an EOT II:

· Tasked with driving innovation while reducing operational costs in the facilities.
· Drive projects with moderate complexity.
· Assist in troubleshooting of facility and rack-level events within internal Service Level Agreements (SLA).
· Perform rack installs, rack decommissioning, operational readings and facility management.
· Provide key performance indicators to senior engineers.
· 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.
· Ensure all safety procedures are adhered to while performing work.
· Perform basic support concepts such as ticketing systems, root cause analysis, change management creation, writing procedures and building management systems.
· 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.
· Maintain data center critical infrastructure equipment ensuring 99.999% uptime of the world's largest cloud computing portfolio.
· Role may support more than one location/site.
· Walk job sites in uneven terrain. Maintain balance and perform construction tasks while on a ladder
· Regularly lift and/or move up to 39 pounds unassisted and participate in group lifts for 40+ pounds
Regularly walk, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, climb stairs, twist, bend, work above shoulders, grasp, carry, push and pull.