Electrical Standards Engineer - Colo sites, Colocation Design Standards

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.

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 wed 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 organization 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.

Key job responsibilities
Develop and maintain consistent colocation design standards to drive equivalent resilience in colocation data centres to AWS owned sites.
Support the deployment of new AWS products in colocation data centres in a consistent way.
Input into global design standards and generational data centre template designs.
Work with regional colo engineering teams to review and accept proposed changes to the site specific infrastructure against our data centre standards.
Work with our global colocation partners to drive consistent standard solutions to expedite review processes and drive cost efficiency.
Drive key global colocation initiatives.
Documentation release and management of design guides standards specifications and procedures.
Up to 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 Electrical Engineering
- 3 years of experience in colocation data centres
- Proven track record in creating and releasing high quality consistent documentation for processes standards and procedures.
- Experience in developing and presenting business case analysis to senior leadership

Experience authoring standards white papers technical documentation training materials
Experience directly related to construction of data centers critical medical industrial construction oil and gas or large-scale mechanical and power systems.
Experience with design review specification development of design standards and submittal review.
Knowledge of electrical systems commissioning.
Strong business analytics skills.

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