The ideal candidate will need to have an understanding of data center IT Infrastructure and data center Facilities infrastructure and how the two entities co-exist. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing assistance and support to the onsite team. The position will help ensure overall availability and reliability to meet or exceed defined service levels. Qualified candidates must also have experience functioning in a large-scale data center and have demonstrated and displayed the ability to think outside of the box. This skill is essential, as the candidate will assist with aligning the Facility Operations Center with the larger objectives of other business and peer organizations. You will need to play a role with growing the team to a standard of operational excellence.
If you are passionate about the Customer Experience; you think and act globally; and you want to contribute to the operational excellence of Amazon Data Centers, then this may be the challenge you’ve been looking for!
Key job responsibilities
Monitors the global data center Amazon facilities infrastructure platform
Serves as a Point of Contact for internal and external teams
Assists with the development of communication and escalation protocols designed to improve the team’s performance
Contributes to outage post mortem analysis
Ensures records are updated in a timely manner
Assists with coordination and communication during emergency recovery efforts
Assists with the development of tools that will enhance the team’s performance
Ability to support a 24X7 environment (This is shift work which may require that you work weekends and holidays)
Internal job description
About the team
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Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
Experience in a data center or other critical environment
Knowledge of mission critical systems (data centers, hospitals, power plants, military facilities, etc.)
Experience in electrical or mechanical engineering
Experience in operations and on-call support for data center facilities, mission critical plants, or production facilities
Experience working in a data center or mission critical facility (example: hospital, military facility, public safety facility, etc.), or experience in data center engineering or operations
Experience in data center engineering or operations
Experience with network operations either as a manager or individual contributor
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