• Job Description

  Req#: 2388382
  The AWS Data Center Systems team builds services to monitor the data center infrastructure controls monitoring and alerting systems. Our services directly contribute to the high availability of AWS data centers and Amazon’s sustainability goals. Teams in Data Center Systems solve problems of massive metric ingestion, distributed systems/cloud computing, data visualization, anomaly detection, analytics, and graph networks. The team’s goal is to deliver consistent standards for data center controls systems, as well as overall mechanical and electrical design practices.
  
  We are looking for a Controls Engineer who is passionate about data center operations and automated sequences to increase efficiency and availability. In this role you’ll be providing support and developing mechanisms to the next generation controller design and sequence development, hardware integration, I/O mapping tables and engineering specifications. You’ll be applying your creative and critical problem solving skills to develop solutions to deploy at massive scale. Above all, you will care deeply about the customer and delight in creating simple and elegant solutions that solve our customers’ biggest challenges.
  
  The ideal candidate will need a wide-ranging background in data center environmental controls systems, IT infrastructure, networking, mechanical facility operations, electrical power monitoring, project management and strong leadership skills.
  
  If you are passionate about the Customer Experience, think and act with a global perspective and have the ability to contribute to sophisticated innovations in the area of building controls and automation initiatives, this is the challenge you are looking for!
  
  Role Responsibilities and Requirements
  • Lead and facilitate collaboration with multiple teams including construction, programmers, sourcing, and team managers as necessary to accomplish initiative goals.
  
  • Have deep knowledge of critical infrastructure, building operations, mechanical plant strategies, BMS/EPMS programming concepts, control diagrams, industrial HVAC, electrical line-ups, one line diagrams, and complex environmental and electrical concepts.
  
  • Data center redundancy, mechanical failure strategies, energy and water conservation best-case practices and data reporting analytics.
  
  • Knowledge of how to successfully operate in high security critical environments while maximizing productivity.
  
  • Innovation of new solutions to support initiative, team, and company goals.
  
  • Create, maintain, and disseminate specification documents that pertain to global projects.
  
  • Create, support mechanisms for for mechanical and electrical controls products.
  
  • Interaction with AWS cloud services and other applications in order to present, archive and analyze accumulated data.
  
  • Expect to travel when needed to manage and/or support project initiatives
  
  This role can be seated in any one of the following locations. We are not offering remote for this position, you must be willing to relocate and/or live within commuting distance to the site:
  • Columbus, OH
  • D.C. / North VA
  • Umatilla, Boardman, Hermiston Oregon
  
  
  About the team
  Team is responsible for the remote provisioning and configuration of mechanical and electrical controls systems, ensuring that data center controls systems are deployed and configured on time to meet AWS's capacity commitments. We have the responsibility for deploying security and software updates and will provide a 24/7 single point of contact
  
  We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
  
  Arlington, VA, USA3+ years working on PLC design and programming sequence logic. 3+ years designing or contributing to the design of Controls and Monitoring solution projects. 3+ years’ experience working with complex control systems including electrical and mechanical devices. Skilled in written and verbal communication. Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
  5+ years experience driving large-scale enterprise data center or critical environment projects. B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology. Experience with the use and programming of control and gateway devices. Design and integration experience with Industrial IOT Solutions. Demonstrates large scale coordinated efforts with multiple project stakeholders. Knowledge of Data Center Facilities Infrastructure and operation
  
  Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

• About the company

  Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington, which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. The company has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", as well as the world's most valuable brand.

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