Engineering Operations Technician, InfraOps Cluster Operations
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Job description
Amazon is seeking a collaborative electrical maintenance professional for our Amazon Web Services Team. This engineering operations technician position serves as the on-site maintenance technician and operator for an AWS data centre. The Data Centre Engineering Operations Technician (EOT) is responsible for operating and maintaining all electrical, mechanical, emergency generator, and fire/life safety equipment within the data centre. The EOT serves as a technical resource to support Amazon within its data centres. Data centre equipment that supports mission-critical servers must maintain better than 99.999% uptime. EOT's are also tasked with driving innovation while reducing operational costs in the facilities.
EOT's are Amazon's front line responders for hands-on electrical and mechanical equipment troubleshooting and operation. This equipment includes, but is not limited to, stand-by diesel generators, switchboards/switch-gears, UPS's, PDU's, AHU's, pumps, motors, VFD's, and building automation systems. This role will not require shift work.
Responsibilities:
- Operate and maintain mechanical and electrical equipment
- Troubleshooting of facility and rack-level events within internal SLAs
- Perform limited maintenance tasks to include: filter changes, HVAC PMs, rack power installs, rack PDU, and rack ATS replacements
- Provide support to Data Centre Operations technicians
- Perform root cause analysis of equipment failures
- Ensure all safety procedures are adhered to while performing work
- Take daily operational readings of all mechanical and electrical equipment through routine rounds/log taking (temperatures, voltages, currents, etc.)
- Utilise internal CMMS to manage building workflows and spare part inventory
- Supervise contractors who perform servicing or preventive maintenance
- Respond to off hour emergency calls per on call rotation for any one of the region's sites
- Fully comply with all physical security procedures and policies
Requirements
- Ability to work in cramped and/or elevated locations with or without reasonable accommodation
- Technical training (Military or trade school) or relevant experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word) and web-based operational tools, * 4+ years of Data Centre Engineering Experience and a degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or relevant discipline
- Fundamental knowledge of network design and layout as well as low voltage (copper/ fibre) cabling. Familiar with BMS and EPMS control systems and data collection/trending and proficient with maintenance management software
- Travel between sites/locations during the workday may occur., 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-levels, * Commutable to the Thames Valley Region
- Ability to work in cramped and/or elevated locations with or without reasonable accommodation
- Able to relocate for up to 1 year for specialised training to prepare for a deployment location in a new data centre region.
- Technical training (Military or trade school) or relevant experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word) and web-based operational tools
- Familiar with BMS and EPMS control systems and data collection/trending
- Proficient with maintenance management software, * 4+ years of Data Centre Engineering Experience
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or relevant discipline
- Fundamental knowledge of network design and layout as well as low voltage (copper/ fibre) cabling.
- All candidates must possess a valid driver's license, their own vehicle, and will need to pass a driving record check to operate company vehicles. Travel between sites/locations during the workday may occur.