Sr Fire Protection Design Standards Engineer, Colocation Design Standards

6 months ago


North Sydney, Australia Amazon Corporate Services Pty Ltd Full time
This role has global impact. Our goal is to identify the candidate that data center technical knowledge and ideally colocation experience. In this role, the engineer will use their subject matter expertise to drive continuous improvement of third-party designs through the creation of standards. If you have experience developing global design and working within a broad design and construction infrastructure environment, we’d love for you to apply.

As a Colo Design Standards Engineer you will be responsible for driving design and availability consistency across our colocation data centers. You will work with leaders and Principal Engineers in our Colo engineering team and in the wider global engineering teams to set and update standards for colocation capacity. You will work directly with our colocation engineering teams in AMER, EMEA and APAC, and leverage global relationships with our colocation partners to deliver against these standards.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Sydney, Shenzhen (China), Singapore, Brisbane, Melbourne, Tokyo,

Key job responsibilities
• Develop and maintain global consistent colocation design standards to drive equivalent resilience in colocation data centers to AWS owned sites.
• Develop standards and processes to support local team in negotiations with colo fire engineering and local authorities.
• Support the deployment of new AWS products in colocation data centers in a consistent way.
• Input into global design standards and generational data center template designs.
• Support as required regional colo engineering teams to review and accept proposed changes to the site-specific infrastructure against our data center standards, and document Accepted Deviations when appropriate.
• Work with our global colocation partners to drive consistent solutions to expedite review processes and drive cost efficiency.
• Set up global strategies to deploy specific products or designs, and drive key global colocation initiatives.
• Documentation, release and management of design guides, standards, specifications and procedures.
• 25% international travel.

About the team
The Colocation Design Standards (CoDeS) team drives the global standardization of technical solutions for AWS Colocation (colo) sites. The team owns the creation and update of engineering standards for colo sites, following the performance objectives set in AWS Basis of Design (BoD) and creating those for colocation specific technology. The team also provides technical support for AWS product colo readiness to enable efficient deployment. CoDeS global standardization of technical designs objectives is key to enable more efficient and consistent capacity ingestion for the delivery teams.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Sydney, AUS

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

•Bachelor’s degree in Fire Protection Engineering, or an equivalent engineering degree in a related field with at least 5 years additional qualifying experience.
•Cumulative 5+ years of experience in engineering or the construction industry, related to all aspects of fire protection, including fire suppression systems, fire alarm and detection systems, fire-resistive construction, and life safety.
•3+ years of fire engineering experience in data centers, preferably in colocation facilities.
•Experience applying local codes, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards, International Code Council (ICC) requirements, and other fire protection industry standards, procedures, and methodologies.
•Experience with processes of design review, specification, development of design standards, and submittal review.
•Ability to read and understand construction documents for all trades (design drawings, control diagrams, specifications, etc.).
•Excellent communication skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

In addition to above
•Experience authoring standards, white papers, technical documentation, training materials, Code Modification Requests (CMRs), and Alternate Materials and Methods (AMM) proposals,
•Experience directly related to construction of data centers, critical medical, industrial, construction, oil and gas, or large-scale mechanical and power systems.
•Experience with processes of design review, specification, development of design standards, and submittal review.
•Licensed Fire Protection Engineer
•Strong knowledge of BS, ICC Codes, NFPA Standards, FM global requirements and other fire protection industry standards, procedures, and methodologies.
•Experience in the development processes for codes and standards; NFPA technical committee participation.
•Experience submitting and negotiating fire permits, and conducting building design reviews with local authorities.
•Experience with performance-based alternatives to prescriptive fire protection design.
•Advance knowledge of both mechanical and electrical systems commissioning.
•Strong business analytics skills.

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.

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