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Location

Sterling, VA | United States

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About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

We are currently seeking for an Engineering Operations Technician to serve as a technical resource to support Amazon within our mission critical Data Center. The position will help ensure overall availability and reliability in all electrical and mechanical infrastructure within the data center environment in a specific location. This equipment supports mission-critical servers and must maintain better than 99.999% uptime. The role has requirements as being self-managed person who takes the initiative and provides effective solution for complex technical problems. The successful candidates will be expected to have direct and immediate impact on improving the resiliency, efficiency and capacities of our facilities to help offer Amazon’ customers better value with maintaining, operating and troubleshooting, Data Center Operation’s Mission Critical Facilities, which includes stand-by diesel generators and related fuel systems, as well as three phase electrical systems such as: switch gear, UPSs, PDUs, wet cell batteries and associated systems, CRAC, centrifugal chillers, cooling towers/water chemical system, air handlers and associated systems, pumps, & motors.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop celebrating our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We have a career path for you no matter what stage you’re in when you start here. As we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer, we know we must continuously raise our performance bar. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home. Finding purpose and fulfillment is essential across all aspects of our lives, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Key job responsibilities
· Operate and maintain all mechanical, electrical and HVAC equipment within the Data Center/Facility.
· Supervise contractors who perform servicing or preventive maintenance
· Develop work plan for emergency repair of critical assets.
· Operates under minimal supervision.
· Work on-call and a rotating schedule as needed
· Perform basic support concepts such as ticketing systems, root cause analysis, and task prioritization
· Perform shift duty as required
· Fully comply with all physical security procedures and policies
· Ensure all safety procedures are adhered to while performing work
· Perform rack power installs, rack PDU, and rack ATS replacements
· Verification on electrical/cooling capacity before new rack install
· Create and Close Work Orders with appropriate data, to include labor hours, equipment maintenance, and parts used into asset management system
· Maintain changes in state in Mission Critical infrastructure in support of corrective/ preventive maintenance
· Testing: Test quality, performance, safety, and reliability of products, equipment, processes
· To be a front-line responder for hands-on electrical and mechanical equipment troubleshooting. This equipment includes, but is not limited to, AHU’s, chillers, cooling towers, chemical treatment systems, pumps, motors, VFD’s, and building automation systems.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Sterling, VA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 1+ years of electrical or mechanical, or 1+ years of data center or mission critical facilities (example: hospital, military facility, public safety facility, etc.) experience
- High school or equivalent diploma

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