Job Description
3+ 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.
5+ years experience driving large-scale enterprise data center or critical environment projects.
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.
About Us
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
This position can be remote, but candidates must be based near Arlington, VA HQ2 office location.
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.
- 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
- Skilled in written and verbal communication.
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
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.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $93,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.