Sr. Electrical Design Engineer, HVMV Engineering

About the team

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. This includes the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. The HV/MV Design Engineering team is responsible for designing high-voltage and medium-voltage electrical infrastructure that powers AWS data centers worldwide.

Responsibilities of the Sr. Electrical Engineer

• Be a leader within the group as well as within internal and external teams that support the data center.
• Work with internal teams to understand user requirements.
• Participate in site selection reviews.
• Data center substation electrical designs and collaboration with other disciplines to create a construction document set.
• Creation of designs which meet or exceed our quality requirements and fall within our budgetary requirements.
• Work with regional vendors and manufacturers to specify the appropriate electrical equipment.
• Work with local utilities to understand and define site utility requirements.
• Work with local agencies having jurisdiction to ensure compliance with federal, state and municipal requirements and building codes.
• Review and approval of equipment submittals.
• Define project scope and provide technical support for information requests prior to, and during construction phases.
• Work with commissioning teams to properly test and validate installation, operation, and performance of electrical systems.
• Able to work on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions.
• Travel to sites for site review and work with onsite field engineers, as well as provide engineering evaluations, electrical systems audits, and startup as needed.
• Having fun and offering creative, out-of-the-box solutions.

About the role

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Sr. Electrical Engineer to become part of a global engineering team, responsible for the design and continuous innovation of our rapidly expanding data center footprint. Engineers at Amazon work to design resilient, cost-effective electrical distribution systems. As engineers at Amazon, we are responsible for achieving a world-class uptime for our customers. We justify and communicate the technical decisions we make to Senior Management and work hard to drive continuous advancements and improvements with our designs. As an engineer at Amazon, you have the ability to drive change and define/design the systems our customers rely on.

Qualifications

• 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
• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents
• Experience with design or construction administration of a variety of electrical distribution systems ranging from low voltage to high voltage
• Bachelor’s degree in an electrical engineering, or 12+ years of related electrical experience including a minimum of 5 years of substation design experience.
• Cumulative 7+ years of experience with industrial or commercial electrical design experience.
• 4+ years of Experience developing design documentation (plans, specifications, etc) for construction and/or permitting.