Amazon is seeking a collaborative electrical maintenance professional for our Amazon Web Services Team.

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This engineering operations technician position serves as the on-site maintenance technician and operator for an AWS data centre.

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The Data Centre Engineering Operations Technician (EOT) is responsible for operating and maintaining all electrical, mechanical, emergency generator, and fire/life safety equipment within the data centre. The EOT serves as a technical resource to support Amazon within its data centres. Data centre equipment that supports mission-critical servers must maintain better than 99.999% uptime. EOT’s are also tasked with driving innovation while reducing operational costs in the facilities.

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Key job responsibilities

Responsibilities:

- Operate and maintain mechanical and electrical equipment- Troubleshooting of facility and rack-level events within internal SLAs

- Perform limited maintenance tasks to include:

filter changes, HVAC PMs, rack power installs, rack PDU, and rack ATS replacements

- Provide support to Data Centre Operations technicians

- Perform root cause analysis of equipment failures

- Ensure all safety procedures are adhered to while performing work

- Take daily operational readings of all mechanical and electrical equipment through routine rounds/log taking (temperatures, voltages, currents, etc.)

- Utilise internal CMMS to manage building workflows and spare part inventory

- Supervise contractors who perform servicing or preventive maintenance

- Respond to off hour emergency calls per on call rotation for any one of the region’s sites

- Fully comply with all physical security procedures and policies

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Basic Qualifications

- Experience in relevant work
- Can bend or twist the body into unusual positions while working
- Can use hands to manipulate small wires and objects
- Can walk on job sites in uneven terrain
- Can work at heights and from ladders

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Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
- Knowledge of network design and layout as well as low voltage (copper/ fiber) cabling
- Experience in data center engineering
- Can perform physical tasks all day without becoming overly tired

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