Electrical Design Engineer, APAC Data Center Design Engineering

Electrical Design Engineer, APAC Data Center Design Engineering

Job ID: 3124452 | Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling 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.

As the Electrical Engineer, become part of a world class engineering team to lead the Electrical design of our Data Centers across our rapidly expanding Asia Pacific (APAC) portfolio. We’re looking for candidates that share our customer obsession by providing innovative solutions to enhance our market leading reliability. We contribute to our global body of knowledge and drive a cycle of continuous improvement at a global scale.

We are looking for engineers with hands on electrical design experience across the project lifecycle from concept design through construction, to commissioning and handover. You will be relied on as a subject matter expert in the electrical engineering field. At Amazon, we highly support continued learning opportunities and focus on continued employee development.

Amazon has a global presence and 25% travel will be expected as part of this role. Projects will be throughout the region and a degree of international travel and support will be necessary.

Responsibilities

- Work with internal teams to understand and respond to evolving user requirements.

- Lead Data center electrical designs in collaboration with other disciplines to create a coordinated construction document set.

- Participate in site selection reviews.

- Critical Data Center equipment design including site-wide MV infrastructure, Generators, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Switchgear, Transformers and Earthing.

- Creation of designs which meet or exceed our quality requirements and fall within our budgetary requirements.

- Work with regional vendors and manufacturers to specify the appropriate electrical equipment.

- Work with local utilities to understand and define site utility requirements.

- Work with local agencies having jurisdiction to ensure compliance with IEC requirements, the various APAC wide design codes and other jurisdictional requirements.

- Review and approval of equipment submittals.

- Define project scope and provide technical support for information requests prior to, and during construction phases.

- Work with commissioning teams to properly test and validate installation, operation, and performance of electrical systems.

- Ability to work on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions.

- Travel to sites for site review and work with onsite field engineers, as well as provide engineering evaluations, electrical systems audits, and startup as needed.

- Be a leader within the global group as well as within internal and external teams that support Amazon’s data centers.

Basic Qualifications

- Knowledge of mechanical or electrical systems design.

- 5+ 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.

- Cross Discipline Design Coordination Experience.

- Comprehensive understanding of the various code requirements across the APAC region across critical MV and LV electrical equipment.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience carrying new design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production.

- Chartered Engineer or Master’s degree in an Electrical Engineering.

- Experience with delivering fast track design/build projects and or multiple significant upgrade projects in a multi-disciplined engineering environment.

- A willingness to think outside of the box to find creative and innovative solutions to reduce costs with no impact on quality, reliability, or maintainability.

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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