Facility Operations Centre Engineer, Amazon

6 months ago


Berkshire, United Kingdom Amazon Data Services UK Limited Full time
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re 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 we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

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.

The Data Centre Global Engineering Operations organization is looking for an individual with proven and tested leadership skills to help bring to fruition a newly developed Facilities Operations Centre (FOC). The FOC is responsible for 24X7 monitoring of the data centre’s physical infrastructure and will serve as a facilitator for all Large Scale Events (LSEs) and Critical Site Events (CSEs). This role will also serve as a central monitoring location for the facility electrical and mechanical systems. This team will ensure that the customer experience will be optimal and gratifying by way of consistency, reliability and attention to detail.
The ideal candidate will need to have an understanding of data centre IT infrastructure and data centre 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 centre 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 FOC 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 Centres, then this may be the challenge you’ve been looking for
Roles, Responsibilities and Requirements:
· Monitors the data centre 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
· The ability to support a 24X7 environment (This is shift work which may require that you work weekends and holidays).

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why 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.

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 embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. 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, 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.

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

Thames Valley, POST-BER, GBR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of Electrical or Mechanical Experience
- 1+ years of experience working with Building and/or Electrical Platform Management Systems
- 2+ Years’ Experience in Data Centre Engineering/ Operations

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years’ experience working in a large-scale data centre and 3+ years’ experience in a NOC (Network Operations Centre) or similar
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Access)
- Ability to maintain SLAs through the implementation of proactive issue detection and reporting tools and ability to follow and complete support procedures, system documentation, and issue tracking entries, root cause analysis and complex problem solving skills



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