Fire Protection Design Standards Engineer, Colocation Design Standards

The Colocation Design Standards Team is looking for a Senior Fire Protection Design Standards Engineer to drive standards consistency and constant improvement in our global colocation fleet of data centers. If you have experience developing global design and working within a broad design and construction infrastructure environment wed like to meet you. Your work will make a global impact on the future of our data centers.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Frankfurt Berlin Dublin London Madrid Zaragoza Paris Milan Zurich.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words were 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 were looking for talented people who want to help.

Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll 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 youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

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.
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.
25% international travel.

A day in the life
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.

About the team
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Bachelors degree in Fire Protection Engineering or an equivalent engineering degree in a related field with at least 3 years additional qualifying experience.
3 years of professional experience in engineering or the construction industry related to all aspects of fire protection including fire suppression systems fire alarm and detection systems fireresistive 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 and the ability to read and understand construction documents

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 largescale mechanical and power systems with advance knowledge of both mechanical and electrical systems commissioning.
Licensed Fire Protection Engineer with 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.


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