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Herndon, VA

Regional Environmental Engineer, AWS Environmental

2 years experience
Technology & Digital
Engineering
96,000.00 - 166,300.00 USD
Posted:
January 26, 2026

Amazon

Consumer goods marketplace and technology platform
76.7
Palpable Score
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Description

As a Regional Environmental Engineer, you will lead the environmental regulatory compliance function of your assigned area. You will be responsible for advancing environmental performance culture and improving the regulatory adherence of our data centers, by protecting the environment through environmental incident prevention, investigation, and mitigation. Each day you will work with our data center community, the people who make the cloud go. They are working with sources of air emissions, such as emergency backup generators, large scale water and wastewater systems, and handling waste from critical IT equipment.

You will work closely with experts in security, construction, operations, logistics, compliance, corporate counsel, and human resources to further the global environmental compliance program. You will use data to evaluate trends related to leading and lagging indicators to help your customer focus on environmental regulatory compliance, our organization's number one tenet. You will partner with employees as well as contractors to achieve environmental compliance goals and improve our already strong compliance culture. As AWS increases data capacity, you will partner with construction managers to ensure environmental risks are identified and mitigated prior to live operations. You will work in a fast-paced environment where our operations are rapidly changing, advocating compliant changes in the face of new infrastructure, new tools, and new products/processes.

Key job responsibilities

- Regular interactions with our customers delivering environmental performance leadership and guidance

- Implement environmental standards, policies and practices including, but not limited to; environmental management systems, training, risk assessments, and applicable environmental regulations

- Conduct environmental compliance audits of data centers and active construction sites to ensure compliance with environmental requirements and for continuous improvement;

- Perform environmental incident investigations and associated regulatory reports, and develop appropriate corrective actions.

- Maintain adequate compliance record keeping and data integrity.

- Perform data trend analysis to present to cluster leadership to support business and environmental compliance initiatives.

- Consult and partner with compliance and legal teams for interpretations and guidance.

- Represent Amazon at appropriate levels with governmental agencies and throughout the company;

- Prepare and submit time-critical reports to various governmental agencies;

Basic Qualifications

- 2+ years of relevant work in a data center or other critical environment experience
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

- 3+ years of construction or project management experience
- Electrical or mechanical Journeyman License
- operating engineering license such as DC II, DC III, or equivalent
- Experience in construction or project management

About the company

Amazon

Company overview
Amazon runs a wide set of consumer and enterprise businesses, including online retail, Prime Video and other subscription services, advertising, devices, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon also builds large-scale software and infrastructure for logistics, payments, and cloud computing, and hires across engineering, product, operations, corporate functions, and frontline roles. Amazon’s early-career hiring spans both office-based teams and operational sites, which means “entry-level” can look very different depending on the org.

Locations and presence

Amazon has major corporate hubs in Seattle and Arlington (HQ2) plus large engineering and operations sites across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. For many corporate roles, Amazon’s stated expectation has shifted to five days per week in-office for office-based employees (with exceptions depending on role and site).

Palpable Score

76.7
/ 100
Amazon is one of the most accessible early-career employers at scale, with recurring internships and graduate hiring across many disciplines and geographies. Amazon also provides unusually clear public information about interview mechanics and publishes pay ranges on a large share of roles, which supports informed decision-making. The biggest drag on outcomes is the combination of high-performance culture signals and recent corporate job cuts, which adds risk for early-career stability depending on team and org.
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