Data Center Facilities Manager (Night Shift)

Join our dynamic team and become a critical technical leader who ensures the heartbeat of our global infrastructure remains strong and resilient. In this pivotal role, you"ll be the guardian of our data center operations, driving reliability and performance while optimizing operational efficiency across complex technical environments.

Data Center Facility Manger role acts as Amazons front line when it comes to hands-on electrical and mechanical equipment troubleshooting. They will maintain, operate, and troubleshoot mission-critical data center facility equipment including electrical support equipment such as stand-by diesel generators and related fuel systems, 3 phase electrical systems that include but not limited to switchgear, UPS units, PDUs, and wet cell batteries and associated systems. Mechanical equipment includes CRAC units, centrifugal chillers, cooling towers/water chemical systems, air handlers and associated systems, pumps, and motors. Additional support equipment is included in the scope of the role which includes fire suppression systems, building automation systems, and general facilities equipment.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, were the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain and were looking for talented people who want to help.

Youll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. Youll 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 youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Effective May 15, 2017, logical access to the AWS GovCloud region will be restricted to Amazon employees who are U.S. Citizens. (GovCloud may NOT be accessed from outside of the United States)

Key job responsibilities

• Oversee all aspects of the data centers critical physical infrastructure. Maintain high availability and performance while ensuring that all work performed within the site is done to high quality without impact to internal/external customers and maintain service level agreements.
• Manage on-site teams of 24x7 shift technicians, sub-contractors and vendors ensuring that all work performed is in accordance with established practices, procedures and safety protocols. This is a night shift role.
• Drive safety and security culture and compliance within the team
• Hire, coach, and promote team members. Responsible for team"s career development and performance management
• Promotes healthy team culture and peak morale
• Effectively and efficiently manage the operations budget and expenditures.
• Engage in improvement projects, often requiring reaching out to a variety of support teams, and drive them from conception to completion.
• Act as an escalation point for all facilities-related issues. Oversee operation and management of routine and emergency services on a variety of critical systems such as: switchgear, generators, UPS systems, power distribution equipment, chillers, cooling towers, computer room air handlers, building monitoring systems, etc.
• Utilize root cause analysis and troubleshooting/problem solving skills
• Respond to out-of-hours emergency calls.
• Role may support more than one location/site.
• May assist in the build out of new facilities and assist in projects to increase current facility efficiency
• Utilize Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and other basic administrative tools to perform day to day tasks

About the team