Overview
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. 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 — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading a team of engineers in the design of data center critical infrastructure systems.
- Facilitating weekly meetings with internal engineer resources, internal customers and external consultants to address design issues, meet design milestones and escape as needed. Driving risk mitigation meetings across region.
- Driving process improvements, tool optimization, prepare monthly / quarterly business review reports across region.
- Creating and tracking metrics related to cost, quality and duration of design as well as collecting data from construction and commissioning teams as designs are implemented.
- Establishing capital project design budgets and contributing to complex business cases for existing region and new region deployment.
- Collaborating with AWS finance teams to secure funding for projects.
- Working in partnership with AWS Engineering leads to schedule engineering resources and influence design changes based on internal customer needs.
- Partnering with internal customers to establish project scope, schedule and deliverables.
- Managing document controller’s workflow and audit of deliverables.
- Managing interfaces, stakeholders’ coordination and overseeing follow‑through from due diligence to design, to construction to operations across the project life cycle.
- Driving permits approvals and interfacing with respective AHJ.
A Day in the Life
Design manager will lead the design delivery of inflight and new‑build design projects. The person will act as single point of contact to oversee design delivery, manage stakeholders, and optimize resources / efforts across the project life cycle.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Architecture.Minimum of 8 years of Project Management or Project Lead experience including RFQ / RFP process, selecting engineering teams, developing budgets, coordinating multiple consultant teams and facilitating meetings.Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in data center or mission critical facility design with basic multidisciplinary knowledge of mission critical systems, design process, pre‑construction requirements and the construction process.Direct experience negotiating with regulatory agencies regarding departures from building code and construction change orders.Ability to communicate complex technical issues to senior leadership or non‑engineers, develop basic business case financial projections and create performance metrics.Preferred Qualifications
Professional Engineering or Architectural License.10+ years of directly related experience to data center design, construction, operations, and / or facility maintenance.Direct experience delivering modular data center design projects, including procurement and commissioning of facilities.Functional knowledge of industry standards, environmental codes, building codes and safety standards including International Building Code.Working knowledge of BIM, Salesforce, Procore and Smartsheets software.Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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