Facility Operations Center Engineer, Facility Operations Center

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 ideal candidate will need to have an understanding of data center IT Infrastructure and data center Facilities infrastructure and how the two entities co-exist, or have a desire to develop the required skills on the job. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing assistance and support to onsite technicians from around the world.

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 center 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 Facility Operations Center 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 Centers, then this may be the challenge you've been looking for

Key job responsibilities

• Monitors the global data center 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

• Ability to support a 24x7 environment (This is

rotating 10 hour day shift work which requires

that working weekends and holidays)

About the team

About AWS

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

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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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

• Experience with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• 2+ years of supporting procedures for production or mission critical environments to include ticketing, monitoring/metrics, and troubleshooting technical issues experience
• University degree or TAFE technical degree/diploma

• Experience in data center engineering or operations
• University degree or TAFE technical degree/diploma in Engineering or Computer Science
• 2+ Years experience in working in an operations, control/operations center environment

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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