Senior Electrical Design Engineer, APAC Data Center Design Engineering
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. This includes supporting 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 us solve them.
Job Description
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.
Responsibilities
* Work with internal teams to understand and respond to evolving user requirements.
* Lead Data center electrical designs in collaboration with other disciplines to create a coordinated construction document set.
* Participate in site selection reviews.
* Critical Data Center equipment design including site-wide MV infrastructure, Generators, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Switchgear, Transformers and Earthing.
* 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 IEC requirements, the various APAC wide design codes and other jurisdictional requirements.
* 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.
* Ability 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.
* Be a leader within the global group as well as within internal and external teams that support Amazon's data centers.
Qualifications
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* Degree in an Electrical Engineering with Cumulative 6+ years of experience with mission critical electrical design.
* Comprehensive understanding of the various code requirements across the APAC region across critical MV and LV electrical equipment.
* Possess excellent communication skills, attention to detail, problem solving skills, maintain high quality standards.
* Cross Discipline Design Coordination Experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Chartered Engineer or Master's degree in an Electrical Engineering.
* Experience with delivering fast track design/build projects and or multiple significant upgrade projects in a multi-disciplined engineering environment.
* Ability to carry new design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment/construction.
* An ability and willingness to think outside of the box to find creative and innovative solutions to reduce costs with no impact on quality, reliability, or maintainability.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.