The pace, scale, and growth of Amazon's data center platform will challenge you. We seek experienced senior leaders who are highly strategic in managing their business unit, yet lead by example and roll up their sleeves when required.
Key job responsibilities
Team Leadership & Development: Hire, manage, and develop the operations management team including Facility Managers, Chief Engineers, and Facility Technicians. Mentor and develop employees at all levels, including managers.
Operational Excellence: Ensure operation and maintenance of mechanical, electrical, and controls systems for AWS data centers, including preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, and change management. Maintain 100% service uptime across your cluster.
Performance Management: Establish performance benchmarks, conduct analyses, and prepare reports on all aspects of critical facility operations and maintenance. Manage all facility-related repairs in a timely manner.
Organizational Structure: Build and maintain a sustainable organizational structure. Develop hiring strategy and participate in recruiting events.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with business development, engineering, and construction teams to forecast staffing needs and maintain appropriate resource levels.
Vendor Management: Manage colocation data center service providers to meet or exceed contracted performance SLAs. Oversee on-site management of shift technicians, senior shift technicians, sub-contractors, and vendors, ensuring all work is performed in accordance with established practices and procedures.
Incident Management: Lead safety, security, and availability incident response, incident management, incident resolution, and root cause analysis.
Financial Management: Manage cost including OPEX and CAPEX associated with all data centers under your responsibility.
Reporting & Communication: Conduct daily/weekly/monthly Data Center Engineering Operations meetings and reporting. Run weekly availability meetings and report outcomes.
Global Integration: Liaise with global teams on initiatives, processes, and procedures; implement those initiatives locally in France.
Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement of operational processes, procedures, methods, and tools. Lead and manage energy efficiency initiatives in your cluster.
Capacity Planning: Support capacity planning and management activities.
About the team
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.
Diploma in engineering or related fields.
4+ years of experience operating as a manager of managers and/or 7+ years of relevant experience managing mission-critical facilities.
Experience hiring, developing, and managing high-performing technical teams.
Fluency in English to communicate effectively with global teams.
Driving license valid in EU
Speak, write, and read fluently in French and English at C1 level or above
Experience supporting procedures for production or mission-critical environments including ticketing, monitoring/metrics, and troubleshooting technical issues.
In-depth knowledge of data center facilities such as generators, chillers, cooling towers, air handling units, UPS, electrical sub-distribution systems, fire detection and suppression systems, and cable reticulation systems.
Experience managing or implementing system health, performance monitoring, capacity planning, or process improvement and automation.
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