Sr. Power Generation Engineer - Availability, Global Energy

About the role

The Sr. Power Generation Engineer - Availability, Global Energy role is dedicated to supporting the design and delivery of power systems for AWS data centers. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in power infrastructure design, reliability, and availability modeling.

Responsibilities

• Develop availability models and analysis of different power generation sources, including utility sources, diesel generators, reciprocating engines, gas turbines, fuel cells, battery energy storage systems, and renewable energy.
• Support the development of power generation configurations for various applications, such as primary, temporary, or backup power.
• Understand the design and functionality of the global data center fleet, including existing, upcoming, and unique site designs.
• Interpret, evaluate, and develop Single Line Drawings (SLD), engineering drawings, equipment submittals, equipment specifications documentation, and performance data to advance concepts and solutions.
• Provide feedback to the Design Engineering teams for design revisions for new data centers and to Field Engineering for operational data center upgrades.
• Work on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions.
• Lead technical decisions impacting AWS' global infrastructure strategy.
• Guide cross-functional teams in making critical design decisions, evaluating trade-offs, and managing technical risks across complex power systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
• 6+ years of industrial or commercial engineering experience in mission critical facilities, including data centers, power generation, or oil and gas facilities
• Knowledge of electrical systems in critical Data Center operations, including 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
• 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), 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, MTBF, MTTR, and additional metrics to evaluate power availability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering preferred
• Professional Engineer License preferred
• 10+ years of data center or mission critical facilities experience preferred
• 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.)
• 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
• Leadership and problem-solving skills

Benefits

Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life insurance, AD&D insurance, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. For more information, visit https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.