Senior Data Scientist Retail Science jobs at Amazon in Japan

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
The Head of Construction will be responsible for:
• Hiring and developing new Construction Managers. Coach, mentor, and lead a large Construction Management team (20+ builders, including people managers).
• Strategic and tactical management of construction capacity delivery within their region.
• Communicate and provide guidance to Finance during the development and execution of capital budgets.
• Coordinate with various teams supporting the data center development and launch.
• Develop and manage metrics quantifying performance across North Asia Construction.
• Coordinate with Business Development on land and facility acquisition.
• Manage the safety, speed, cost, and quality of the data center deliverable.Additionally, Head of Construction should possess the following abilities:
• Ability and drive to learn our Data Center technology and construction process
• Ability and willingness to think creatively and build innovative solutions to reduce cost and duration with no impact on quality and reliability.
• Ability to perform complex business case analysis to justify the project scope and present the justification to management in a high-level review.
• Possess clear written and verbal communication skills and ability to use data to justify conclusions and show return on investment (ROI) in both English and Japanese.Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. 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

- 12+ years leading development and construction of Data Center projects and/or critical infrastructure projects.
- Bachelor's degree and/or relevant professional licenses in Construction Management, Pre-Construction Management, or related fields.
- Experience in the design and scale of large construction organizations including directly managing teams and budgets.

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.As a Support Engineer, you will work with partner teams, user stories, and hardware repair data to drive strategic improvements. You will manage feature and region User Acceptance Testing incoming requests and partner with your team to ensure testing is thorough, defects are properly identified and communicated, and that all documentation maintains high standards. You will stay up to date on applicable data center operation tooling in order to provide impactful feedback on both defects and areas of improvement before features are released. You will work directly with the various service owners and hardware design teams to collaborate on hardware repair workflow instructions. This will include authoring instructions to align with operation capability and ensure clear communication of repair steps. You will be reviewing runbooks and workflow data to collaborate with repair instruction requestors to drive operational improvements and support the needs of specific hardware. You demonstrate excellent judgment when making decisions. You clearly communicate with stakeholders and partner teams. You maintain high standards in documentation and are detail focused.Key job responsibilities
- Complete detailed testing on new features and new region tooling
- Document and communicate necessary changes before feature or tooling release to end users
- Maintain expert understanding of operational repair tooling
- Drive operational efficiency improvements through instruction modifications and creation
- Author repair workflow instructions and make updates
- Review peer authored new instructions to bar raise before release to end users.You will need to be a UK national and able to obtain and maintain a UK Government Security Clearance. Further details found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levelsA day in the lifeDiverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. 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

- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience working with device technologies under development, familiarity with flashing firmware, basic device debugging and familiarity with reading/pulling device logs
- Experience troubleshooting & maintaining hardware & software RAID

- Experience scripting in one or more language (e.g. Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby)
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP

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
The successful candidate will be operationally responsible for a Data Center. Some high-level responsibilities include:
- Prioritize and assign trouble tickets to data center technicians and operators
- Recruit and train data technicians to ensure appropriate staffing levels
- Ensure effective and efficient management of day to day data center operations including queue management, 7/24 shift arrangement and hardware logistics
- Fast learn or act as the subject matter expert across all aspects in data center operations
- Ensure all operational KPIs and metrics are being measured and met- Manage Large Scale Events (outages) and act as the call leader
- Manage and improve the work-flows and through-put for data centers operations
- Recommend, document, and oversee policies and procedures to meet industry best practices and to meet required SLAs
- Maintain the on-call schedule coordinating absence and vacations
A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. 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

- 4+ years of Information Technology (IT) experience, or Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- 2+ years of people management experience
- 2+ years of operations and on-call support for data center facilities, mission critical plants, or production facilities experience

- Experience in Linux systems administration and/or development
- Knowledge of network design and layout as well as low voltage (copper/ fiber) cabling
- Experience in computer architecture, or experience with general troubleshooting/debugging of hardware
- Experience writing and publishing technical documents or equivalent
- Experience previously in program or project management

GAIIC provides opportunities to innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies that get deployed on devices and in the cloud.Key job responsibilities
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. 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

- Japanese fluency, Business English
- PhD degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, operations research, or in a highly quantitative field plus 5 years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree plus 10 years of relevant work experience
- 5+ years of hands on experience with Python to build, train, and evaluate models
- 5+ years of experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high- performance computing
- 2+ years demonstrated experience with Large Language Model (LLM) and Foundational Model post-training, continual pre-training, fine-tuning, or reinforcement learning techniques.
- Scientific publication track record at top-tier AI/ML/NLP conferences or journals
- Experience directly managing scientists or machine learning engineers

AWS インフラストラクチャサービス (AIS)AWS インフラストラクチャサービスは、AWS のグローバル インフラストラクチャ全体の設計、計画、提供、運用を担当しています。つまり、クラウドを安定的に稼働させ続けるのが私たちの役割です。AWS のデータセンター、サーバー、ストレージ、ネットワーク、電力、冷却装置など、すべてのインフラを包括的にサポートし、お客様が必要とするイノベーションへの継続的なアクセスを確保しています。私たちは、サプライチェーンに影響を及ぼす数千もの変数を含む複雑な課題に日々取り組んでおり、この挑戦に共に立ち向かう優秀な人材を求めています。AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS)
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.アマゾン ウェブ サービス (AWS) は急速な成長を続けており、拡大するインフラストラクチャ運用チームの一員として、データセンター エンジニアを募集しています。Key job responsibilities
In this role as a Data Center Engineer, you will be responsible for the on-site management of hardware lifecycle of our IT infrastructure that includes:
● Working as part of the Operations team; whose primary responsibility is the maintenance and upkeep of the data center infrastructure.
● Your role and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, installing server racks, removing server racks, fixing various IT hardware and network components, and also responding to emergent situations that affect operations.
● Meet customer service level agreements by resolving problems, and be the first line touch point for hardware troubleshooting and technical issues.
● Perform on-call duties and participate in Data Center operations, handling scheduled maintenance and change management activities that require monitoring of the data center infrastructure.
● Participate in team meetings for metric analysis and to discuss achieving daily/weekly goals.
● Have the knowledge of the policies and procedures, including safety and security, within your department, and understand the appropriate application of such knowledge.
● Contribute to documentation on technical issues through root cause analysis for operational issues that occur, and contribute to process improvement initiatives relevant to the data center environment.
● More experienced engineers may assist in training less experienced members of the team.* オペレーションチームの一員として、データセンターインフラの保守・維持を主な責務とします。
* 業務内容には、サーバーラックの設置・撤去、各種ITハードウェアやネットワーク機器の修理、運用に影響を及ぼす緊急事態への対応などが含まれます。
* 顧客とのサービスレベル契約を遵守し、ハードウェアのトラブルシューティングや技術的課題に関する第一次対応窓口を担当します。
* オンコール対応を行い、データセンター運用に携わるとともに、定期メンテナンスや変更管理作業を通じてインフラの監視を実施します。
* メトリクス分析および日次・週次目標の進捗確認のためのチームミーティングに参加します。
* 部門内の安全性やセキュリティを含むポリシーと手順を理解し、適切に実践します。
* 運用上の問題に対する根本原因分析を通じて技術文書の作成に携わり、データセンター環境の改善施策に貢献します。
* 経験豊富なエンジニアは、必要に応じて経験の浅いチームメンバーの指導を行います。A day in the life
● You will support Data Center infrastructure equipment (e.g. racks, servers, networking devices, hardware components, cables, etc.)
● You will follow the instructions ticket-based environment and work on systematic problem resolution and perform routine operation activities on hardware, or spare parts, including installing and removing server racks and fixing server hardware.
● You will perform on-call duties and will participate in Data Center operations, handling scheduled maintenance and change management activities that require monitoring of the data center infrastructure.
● Show a strong aptitude for troubleshooting and problem solving.
● You will be involved with site management and maintain tidiness in operation areas.
● Work in a rotating shift with a team of other engineers. Your standard shift hours are 10 hours with a one hour break. You work on 4 days work shifts and 3 days off in the week. Your standard work hours are 8:00-18:00, 12:00-22:00, 22:45-08:15.* データセンターのインフラ機器（ラック、サーバー、ネットワーク機器、ハードウェア部品、ケーブル等）の保守管理を行います。
* チケットシステムに基づき、サーバーラックの設置・撤去やサーバーハードウェアの修理など、ハードウェアや部品の日常的な運用作業を体系的に実施します。
* オンコール対応を含め、データセンターの運用に携わり、定期メンテナンスや変更管理作業におけるインフラ監視を行います。
* 高度なトラブルシューティングと問題解決能力を発揮します。
* サイト管理に参画し、運用エリアの5S（整理・整頓・清掃・清潔・躾）を徹底します。
* 他のエンジニアチームと交代制シフトで勤務します。シフトは1日10時間（休憩1時間含む）、週4日勤務・週3日休みの体制です。勤務時間帯は8:00～18:00、12:00～22:00、22:45～08:15のいずれかとなります。About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
AWS が選ばれる理由
Work/Life BalanceMentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. 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.

● No experience in data centers is necessary, only a desire to learn. We provide all of the training.● Ability to work non-standard hours such as 10 hour shift with 1 hour break (You work on 4 days work shifts and 3 days off in the week. Your standard work hours are 8:00-18:00, 12:00-22:00, 21:45-08:15.● データセンターでの経験は不問です。学ぶ意欲のある方を歓迎します。必要な研修は全て当社で実施いたします。● 変則的な勤務時間に対応可能な方（10時間勤務・1時間休憩、週4日勤務・週3日休み） 勤務シフト：8:00～18:00、12:00～22:00、21:45～08:15

● 1+ year of networking, server, other IT experience.● IT分野（ネットワーク、サーバー管理など）での実務経験が1年以上ある方

This role requires a driven leader who can inspire and guide their team to meet the evolving needs of our organization.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
· Lead and supervise a team of Data Center Technicians which is installing, maintaining and decommissioning network and server hardware· Oversee the safety, security, availability, quality, and performance of the team, while driving a positive customer experience· Strategic planning and forecasting; manage team and individual performance; delivering performance reviews, and address staffing needs· Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and procedures· Mentor, train and develop career progression for direct reports and members of the organization· Obsess over team learning and development, both from a technical/functional and soft skills (critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and adaptability) development perspective· Coordinate support of change management resources in partnership with electrical and mechanical operations teams· Develop, improve, and share operational best practices across the region and with peers globallyAbout the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. 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

· 2+ years of Data Center Operations experience or similar Operations roles
· 2+ years of direct people management experience including performance management such as End of Year Reviews
· Team, organizational and planning skills, as well as stringent time management skills to balance workloads in a complex and dynamic environment
. Driving license valid in EU

· 3+ years of cumulative experience with information technology infrastructure domains such as compute server platforms, storage server platforms, server components, network devices, cabling best practices and IT service delivery principles and best practices· Understanding of critical Electrical, HVAC and control systems.· Appropriate Security and Safety awareness.

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
- Responsible for day-to-day assistance with capacity management.- Deliver simple, sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes.- Manage work and priorities through ticketing system and workflows.- Troubleshooting cabling infrastructure connectivity issues, including patch panels and patch cords.- Participate in the migration, basic configuration and rollout of new or upgraded hardware.- Specifying Power and Cooling requirements and ensuring Hardware Racking/Stacking completed for new equipment.Physical requirements:
- Working in stationary position, with appropriate breaks while maintaining a high level of alertness and attention to detail.- Manual handling and lifting of equipment may be required (weight limits in accordance with regulations)About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. 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

Education & Certification: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a relevant certification, combined with hands-on experience in networking deployment and cabling infrastructure best practices.Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies including routers, switches, load balancers, and firewalls.Cabling & Tools Knowledge: Familiarity with network cabling standards, optic types, and testing tools such as VFL, power meter, and OTDR.Language Skills: Very good command of English, both written and spoken.

Project & Problem-Solving Skills: Comfortable working on small to medium, and slightly complex projects in ambiguous environments; strong prioritization, time management, and analytical judgment under pressure.Networking Knowledge: Solid understanding of Ethernet, IP networking, and fabric-based network design; experience in large-scale data center network implementations and virtualized enterprise environments.Technical Expertise: Familiar with network cabling, optic types, and test equipment (VFL, power meter, OTDR); strong troubleshooting and support background.Best Practices & Methodologies: Awareness or knowledge of IT best practice frameworks such as ITIL, LEAN, AGILE, and Operational Excellence principles.