Sr. Global Strategy Engineer, Global Engineering Strategy
About the Role
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. 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.
The Global Engineering Strategy team (GES) is looking for a results-oriented, inventive senior data center engineer to drive front end engineering and design strategy for new owned and leased site developments. You will lead the engineering due diligence efforts for new and expanding regions, site master planning, and overall site design strategy, while maintaining the highest performance standards and utilizing innovation to reduce budgets and increase efficiency. You will sit within the Design Engineering team of the broader Data Center Engineering (DCE) organization.
You will work with our Real Estate, Risk and Resiliency, Power, Water, Fiber, Environmental, Pre-Construction and related partner teams on global design strategy implementation. You will assist in data center site selection, review of due diligence reports, lead site planning and development and play a pivotal role in the delivery of data center designs.
What You'll Bring
- Strong leadership with the ability to prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery
- Creative engineering balanced with high quality and customer focus
- Ability to work as part of a team to accomplish our goals
- Technical design engineering diligence for global regions
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Lead project teams through ambiguity
- Understand the best practices for data center project delivery
- Extensive experience within the arena of domestic and international data center delivery
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders during the due diligence phase to oversee the process and ensure design requirements are considered
- Collaborate with internal teams to gather data to ensure pre-requisites for start of design stage are met
- Lead the predesign phase, managing internal partners and your external vendor consultants, ensuring design ready deliverables are completed and handed over for successful design execution
- Rollout strategy of new data center design types and intercepts that impact site master plans and design strategy
- Provide engineering design decisions to the partner teams for strategic planning and region selection
- Collaborate with other DCE teams developing new data center infrastructure products, and design execution team disciplines such as civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, structural engineering and architects to assess how our various design types, BOD and products can be deployed for a certain site development project
- Ability to work on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions
- Escalate issues as required and communicate clearly and effectively at the appropriate level of detail with people from a wide range of technical abilities, backgrounds and levels of leadership
- Travel will occasionally be necessary but shouldn't be more than 25%
- International support will be part of the job
Basic 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
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
Preferred Qualifications
- Professional Engineering or Architectural License
- Knowledge of continuously operating redundant electrical systems, cooling systems, air flow containment systems, and building management systems
- Experience carrying design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production
- Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents