Sr. Power Generation Engineer - Availability, Global Energy

About the role

The Sr. Power Generation Engineer - Availability, Global Energy will serve as the Subject Matter Expert and technical leader within the Power Generation Solutions team for power system availability modeling. They will own complex and ambiguous problems that span multiple teams and drive technical decisions impacting AWS' global infrastructure strategy.

Responsibilities

• Developing availability models and analysis of different power generation sources (including, but not limited to; utility sources, diesel generators, reciprocating engines, gas turbines, fuel cells, battery energy storage systems, and renewable energy) to serve data center loads in grid connected or grid independent configurations
• Support the development of power generation configurations for different applications, including primary, temporary, or backup power
• Understanding the design and functionality of the global data center fleet, including existing, upcoming, and unique site designs
• Interpreting, evaluating, and developing Single Line Drawings (SLD), engineering drawings, equipment submittals, equipment specifications documentation, and performance data to advance concepts and solutions
• Providing feedback to the Design Engineering teams for design revisions for new data centers as well as to Field Engineering for operational data center upgrades
• Understanding grid interconnection standards and requirements, including working on microgrid design and controls, and distributed energy resources
• Working on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions
• Being a leader within the group as well as within other teams
• Being positive and offering creative, out of the box solutions
• Having fun and working hard!

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
• 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
• Knowledge of electrical systems in critical Data Center operations that include but are not limited to utility substation feeds, transformers, switchgear, VFI Class UPS, DRUPS, PDUs, ATS, STS, SLA/VRLA batteries and associated systems, diesel/gas turbine generators and related fuel systems, Surge Suppression, Active Harmonic Filtering, battery monitoring systems, branch circuit monitoring systems or SCADA systems
• Experience constructing electrical engineering systems including large scale power distribution/generation gear and mechanical engineering systems including cooling systems
• Experience with availability modeling software (ReliaSoft or similar software), familiarity with Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), outage data, and maintenance data of key high voltage, medium voltage, and low voltage electrical distribution equipment, energy storage equipment, and power generation equipment
• Ability to interpret wiring diagrams, single and three-line diagrams, P&ID drawings, submittals, sequence of operations, and mechanical and electrical drawing packages
• Ability to analyze data and provide quantitative answers for outage rates, probability of outages, mean-time-between-failures (MTBF), mean-time-to-repair (MTTR), and additional metrics to evaluate power availability

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
• Professional Engineer License
• 10+ years of data center or mission critical facilities (example: hospital, military facility, public safety facility, etc.) experience
• Familiarity with power flow studies, substation design, protection coordination, and utility interconnection requirements, emerging power generation and energy storage technologies, and power distribution for large scale mission critical facilities
• System Matter Expert level of understanding of both electrical equipment and designs related to data centers and power generation equipment
• Experience with gathering, compiling, and analyzing data to identify availability and/or performance risks within the design and operations of critical power infrastructure, including an understanding of data analysis methodologies and statistical techniques
• Experience with developing solutions and executing plans on fast-track design/build projects and/or multiple significant upgrade projects
• Experience with commissioning and/or performance testing of critical infrastructure and the associated controls systems for mission critical environments
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, R), or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R, SAS, Matlab, etc.)
• Possess excellent attention to detail and communication skills in order to maintain high quality standards for being organized, setting priorities, meeting deadlines, and staying within budgets
• Possess leadership and problem-solving skills

Benefits

Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits program including health insurance, retirement savings, paid time off, and parental leave. For more information, visit here.