Global Strategy Engineer, Global Engineering Strategy
About the position
AWS Infrastructure Services is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, ensuring customers have continuous access to the innovation they rely on. The Global Engineering Strategy team (GES) is seeking a results-oriented, inventive data center engineer to lead front-end engineering and design strategy for new owned and leased site developments. This role involves leading engineering due diligence for new and expanding regions, site master planning, and overall site design strategy, with a focus on maintaining high performance standards, reducing budgets, and increasing efficiency. The position sits within the Design Engineering team of the broader Data Center Engineering (DCE) organization, collaborating with various partner teams globally on design strategy implementation, including Real Estate, Risk and Resiliency, Power, Water, Fiber, Environmental, and Pre-Construction. The engineer will assist in data center site selection, review due diligence reports, lead site planning and development, and play a pivotal role in delivering data center designs.
Responsibilities
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders during the due diligence phase to oversee the process and ensure design requirements are considered.
• Collaborating with internal teams to gather data to ensure pre-requisites for start of design stage are met.
• Leading the predesign phase, managing internal partners and external vendor consultants, ensuring design ready deliverables are completed and handed over for successful design execution.
• Rollout strategy of new data center design types and intercepts that impact site master plans and design strategy.
• Provide engineering design decisions to the partner teams for strategic planning and region selection.
• Collaborate with other DCE teams developing new data center infrastructure products, and design execution team disciplines such as civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, structural engineering and architects to assess how various design types, BOD and products can be deployed for a certain site development project.
• Ability to work on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions.
• Escalate issues as required and communicate clearly and effectively at the appropriate level of detail with people from a wide range of technical abilities, backgrounds and levels of leadership.
Requirements
• 4+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities experience
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
Nice-to-haves
• Professional Engineer License
• Knowledge of continuously operating redundant electrical systems, cooling systems, air flow containment systems, and building management systems
• Experience carrying design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production
• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents
Benefits
• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
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AWS Infrastructure Services is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, ensuring customers have continuous access to the innovation they rely on. The Global Engineering Strategy team (GES) is seeking a results-oriented, inventive data center engineer to lead front-end engineering and design strategy for new owned and leased site developments. This role involves leading engineering due diligence for new and expanding regions, site master planning, and overall site design strategy, with a focus on maintaining high performance standards, reducing budgets, and increasing efficiency. The position sits within the Design Engineering team of the broader Data Center Engineering (DCE) organization, collaborating with various partner teams globally on design strategy implementation, including Real Estate, Risk and Resiliency, Power, Water, Fiber, Environmental, and Pre-Construction. The engineer will assist in data center site selection, review due diligence reports, lead site planning and development, and play a pivotal role in delivering data center designs.
Responsibilities
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders during the due diligence phase to oversee the process and ensure design requirements are considered.
• Collaborating with internal teams to gather data to ensure pre-requisites for start of design stage are met.
• Leading the predesign phase, managing internal partners and external vendor consultants, ensuring design ready deliverables are completed and handed over for successful design execution.
• Rollout strategy of new data center design types and intercepts that impact site master plans and design strategy.
• Provide engineering design decisions to the partner teams for strategic planning and region selection.
• Collaborate with other DCE teams developing new data center infrastructure products, and design execution team disciplines such as civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, structural engineering and architects to assess how various design types, BOD and products can be deployed for a certain site development project.
• Ability to work on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions.
• Escalate issues as required and communicate clearly and effectively at the appropriate level of detail with people from a wide range of technical abilities, backgrounds and levels of leadership.
Requirements
• 4+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities experience
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
Nice-to-haves
• Professional Engineer License
• Knowledge of continuously operating redundant electrical systems, cooling systems, air flow containment systems, and building management systems
• Experience carrying design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production
• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents
Benefits
• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
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