Sr 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 our Sydney office.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global 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 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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- 6 years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers power generation or oil and gas facilities experience
- Bachelors degree in Engineering or a related field

- Professional Engineering or Architectural License
- Knowledge of building codes and regulations for your region
- Experience carrying design concepts through exploration development and into deployment or mass production
- Experience reading interpreting and creating construction drawings specifications and submittal documents

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:
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