Amazon Sr Availability Engineer 

United States, Kansas 

564353976

• 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.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
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- 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 center equipment and facilities.
6. Ability to critically audit and provide customer-representative feedback on design concepts through exploration, development, deployment/construction, and through operations.
7. Ability and willingness to think outside of the box to find creative and innovative solutions to improve availability through improved quality, reliability, and maintainability.
8. Ability to perform complex business case analysis to justify technical decisions and present the justification to management in a high level review.
9. Possess excellent communication skills, attention to detail, maintain high quality standards.