Data Center Chief Engineer

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Data Center Chief Engineer to lead critical infrastructure operations for large-scale AWS data centers. In this role, you will own the reliability, performance, and safety of power, cooling, and life-safety systems that support millions of customers worldwide. You will direct maintenance programs, vendor activities, incident response, and continuous improvement initiatives in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment. Partnering with cross-functional AWS teams, you will drive standards, capacity planning, and engineering best practices while mentoring technicians and engineers in a customer-obsessed, data-driven culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead operation and maintenance of AWS data center critical infrastructure (power, cooling, life-safety systems).
• Develop and implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs to maximize uptime.
• Oversee vendor management, inspections, and repair activities to meet AWS reliability standards.
• Monitor facility performance, analyze data, and drive root-cause investigations and corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements across the facility.
• Collaborate with operations, capacity planning, and product teams on new deployments and upgrades.
• Design and improve procedures, runbooks, and standards for incident response and change management.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and training for engineering and facilities staff.
• Support capacity planning, risk assessments, and redundancy strategies for large-scale infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead response to critical incidents and emergency situations.

Required Skills

• Data center infrastructure management (power, cooling, UPS, generators)
• Electrical and mechanical systems troubleshooting
• Building Management Systems (BMS) and SCADAReliability engineering and root cause analysis (RCA)
• Preventive and predictive maintenance planning
• Incident, change, and risk management
• Reading and interpreting technical drawings and schematics
• Project management for infrastructure upgrades
• Capacity planning for power and cooling
• Regulatory, safety, and environmental compliance