Engineering Operations Technician, DCC Communities

Overview

Join our dynamic team and become a critical guardian of technological infrastructure! As a Data Center Engineering Technician, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining the mission‑critical data center infrastructure, ensuring seamless operations that power global digital experiences. Your expertise will directly contribute to maintaining an extraordinary 99.999% uptime.

Key Responsibilities

• Daily building rounds to monitor and record information from electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment to ensure 24/7 reliability and availability.
• Monitor Building Management Systems (BMS) and Electrical Power Management System (EPMS).
• Assist in troubleshooting of facility and rack‑level events within internal Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Perform rack installs and rack decommissioning within internal SLA.
• Perform preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and repair of electrical and mechanical equipment.
• Prepare technical writing to support change management program.
• Monitor daily work requests, manage to resolution, and execute projects from conception to completion.
• Provide on‑site support of contractors, sub‑contractors and vendors, ensuring that all work performed is in accordance with established practices, procedures & local legislation.
• Work schedule may vary per site, with shifts up to 12 hours and possible on‑call rotations.
• Role may support more than one location/site.

Physical Requirements

• Willingness and demonstrated ability to work in the following physical conditions with reasonable accommodations.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 39 pounds independently.
• Participate in group lifts for 40+ pounds.
• Maintain balance and perform construction tasks while on a ladder.
• 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 objects into position.
• Work in an environment requiring ear protection.

Essential Requirements

• Ability to travel to or commute between data center locations as needed.
• Willingness to temporarily work at alternative sites during training periods or until assigned facility is operational.
• Travel frequency will vary based on business needs and operational status of assigned facility.
• Candidates must be able to travel (over 50 miles) or commute (less than 50 miles) to active data center sites as required by business needs.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in relevant work.
• Ability to bend or twist the body into unusual positions while working.
• Comfort with using hands to manipulate small wires and objects.
• Ability to walk on job sites in uneven terrain.
• Comfort working at heights and from ladders.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of data center engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Knowledge of network design and layout as well as low voltage (copper/fiber) cabling.
• Experience in data center engineering.
• Ability to perform physical tasks all day without becoming overly tired.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.