Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a motivated, goal-driven individual to join our Data Center Engineering Operations Team! The Data Center Engineering Operations Technician (EOT) serves a key role as a cornerstone of facility operations, supporting Amazon within its owned and operated data centers. All data center equipment supporting customer services must maintain better than 99.999% uptime.



Physical Requirements:


• Walk job sites in uneven terrain
• Work at heights and from ladders
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 40 pounds; and participate in group lifts for 41 pounds or more
• Coordinate body movements when using tools or equipment
• Reach and stretch to position equipment and fixtures while maintaining balance
• Use hands to manipulate small wires and objects
• Push or pull heavy objects into position
• Work in noisy environments
• Work at depths, such as under raised floors

Key job responsibilities
The EOT is responsible for ensuring that all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the data center is operating at peak efficiency. This involves conducting both planned preventative maintenance of equipment, daily corrective work, and emergency response to emergent issues. The EOT serves as an operator as well as a first-line resource reporting to a site’s Data Center Facility Manager (FM), receiving daily instruction from the Chief Engineer (CE) and interacting with third party vendors. The EOT maintains training compliance as related to their role of operating, troubleshooting and repairing electrical and mechanical equipment.





This equipment includes, but is not limited to:

* Stand-by emergency generators
* Low and medium voltage electrical systems
* Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS)
* Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS)
* Chilled water systems
* Water treatment systems
* Building automation systems
* Fire detection and air quality monitoring systems
* Server racks

Also expected from the EOT is the ability to execute small-to-medium impacting projects from conception to completion. These projects involve moderate amounts of independent work as well as collaboration with external support groups including engineering, automation, processing, and finance in controlled environments. The EOT will be tasked with creating and delivering on key milestones, obtaining and tracking quotes for all necessary costs, and documenting project results. The goals of such projects are to drive innovation and resiliency while reducing operational costs in the facilities.


A day in the life
The Data Center Engineering Operations Team is a group committed to maintaining the critical data center infrastructure that supports Amazon Web Services. Specifically, this team works to ensure that the facility's Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing systems operate at near 100% availability while maintaining first-class customer service to the supporting teams and key stakeholders of the data centers.

About the team
The Data Center Engineering Operations Team is a group committed to maintaining the critical data center infrastructure that supports Amazon Web Services. Specifically, this team works to ensure that the facility's Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing systems operate at near 100% availability while maintaining first-class customer service to the supporting teams and key stakeholders of the data centers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is growing rapidly, and we are looking for an Infrastructure Delivery 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 facilitieses. 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.

The position will help ensure overall availability and reliability for our customers within our Data Centers. The position will help ensure overall availability and reliability for our customers within our Data Centers. You will work in a dynamic environment to drive the stability and sustainability of our next-generation networks and assist in the development of innovative ways to automate and scale our network. You will launch cutting edge server technologies and solve diverse networking impairments.

To be successful in this role you should possess technical aptitude, written and oral communications skills and the ability to deal effectively with people in a wide variety of situations. In addition, you must possess strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability. You will be able to leverage your experience exercising high levels of initiative, judgment, and diplomacy.

Physical Requirements:
• Walk, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch.
• Work at heights and from ladders
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 40 pounds unassisted; and participate in group lifts for 50 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
• Ability to work overtime as required

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:
• Move and implement large enterprise equipment
• Patch cabling between equipment
• Install Fiber and Copper cabling
• Ensure proper standards are maintained for cabling and racks
• Ability to safely use material handling tools and equipment