Data Center Facility Manager, DCEO

Saved job description

How would you like to be a part of Earth’s most customer-centric company? You would work with teams of front-line responders who support the operations of some of the world’s most powerful data centers. Our Data Center Engineering Operations team maintain and operate our critical infrastructure systems so that they are prepared to stand up against any situation.

AWS has the world’s largest cloud computing portfolio. As an Amazonian you will work in some of the most sophisticated, safe, and secure data centers in the world. Our Facility Managers help keep them that way by working with the brightest minds from around the globe to help test and implement the newest technology and work practices to meet the demands of a changing market.

We have a passion for learning and evolving, it’s how we have helped define ourselves as leaders in the industry. Let’s work hard, have fun, and make history!

Key job responsibilities

- Direct supervisor and manager of a team of Individual Contributors (ICs).

- May be responsible for handling multiple sites or portions of a campus.

- Able to balance tactical vs. strategic management with guidance from leadership.

- Holds a high bar for the safety culture, security behavior, and adherence to policies.

- Optimizes workflows and best practices.

- Mentors and develops across teams to include peers in or outside of their direct organization at an IC or Manager level.

- Manages site/campus responses to difficult technical problems.

- Removes blockers.

- Makes trade-offs related to time vs. quality vs. resources.

- Optimizes workflows and best practices for operational excellence.

- Challenges the status quo and raises the bar through data and metrics.

- Considered a Technical SME in the DCEO space, oversees the building of operationally-specific infrastructure in existing and new locations on a campus, having a solid grasp on data center engineering operations and systems including the technical aptitude to understand current equipment/environment and how they impact your systems, including keeping up with engineering changes and emerging technology in the data center space.

A day in the life

- Oversee all aspects of the data center’s critical physical infrastructure. Maintain high availability and performance while ensuring that all work performed within the site is done to high quality without impact to internal/external customers and maintain service level agreements.

- Manage teams of 24x7 engineering technicians in all facets of their career. Prioritize and assign tasks to data center technicians and operators, manage projects, coach and create documentation. Guide, train and educate staff on best practices related to all service owner issues.

- Effectively and efficiently manage the operations budget and expenditures.

- Engage in improvement projects, often requiring reaching out to a variety of support teams, and drive them from conception to completion.

- Coordinates daily with a multitude of third party vendors ensuring adherence to contracted SLAs.

- Communicate complex technical information to a non-technical audience.

- Respond to out-of-hours emergency calls.

- Is the second level escalation points for Data Center facilities related issues/failures.

- Act as an escalation point for all facilities-related issues. Oversee operation and management of routine and emergency services on a variety of critical systems such as: switchgear, generators, UPS systems, power distribution equipment, chillers, cooling towers, computer room air handlers, building monitoring systems, etc.

- Ensure all safety procedures are adhered to while performing work.

- Test quality, performance, safety, and reliability of products, equipment and processes.

- Walk job sites in uneven terrain. Maintain balance and perform construction tasks while on a ladder.

- Regularly lift and/or move up to 39 pounds independently and participate in group lifts for 40+ pounds.

- Regularly walk, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, climb stairs, twist, bend, work above shoulders, grasp, carry, push and pull.

- Role may support more than one location/site.

Requirements: - 3+ years of management/team lead function experience

- 1+ years of experience with root cause analysis and troubleshooting/problem solving.

- 2+ years of relevant work experience in a data center or other critical environment with extensive knowledge in UPS, Generators, HVAC, Evaporators and other critical infrastructure OR 7+ years of Technical (Military/Trade School) training and/or experience