Amazon · 1 month ago
Data Center Cluster Operations Leader, AMER MLZs
Wilmer, Texas, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$164K/yr - $313K/yr
10+ years expAmazon is a fast-paced technology company and a leader in the world of data centers. They are looking for a Senior Manager to join their expanding Infrastructure Operations team, responsible for leading a large organization and managing department heads in data center facility infrastructure. The role involves ensuring operational availability, planning new data center build-outs, and continuous improvement of operational processes.
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Responsibilities
Hiring, managing, and developing the operations management team including facilities managers, chief engineering managers and engineering operations technicians
Attainment of organizational performance goals and objectives relating to safety, security, availability, scaling, and efficiency in support of our data center operations
Planning and executing the Infrastructure Operations component of new AWS data center build-outs, new colocation build-outs, AWS data center expansions, and colocation expansions, including the entire mechanical/electrical/plumbing infrastructure to facilitate the daily operation
Operation and maintenance of mechanical, electrical, and controls systems for Amazon data centers to include preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, and change management
Vendor management of colocation data center services providers, if required, to meet or exceed contracted performance SLA’s
Oversight of a preventative maintenance system and the adherence to schedules, evaluation and performance of our infrastructure supporting the data center operations
Experience in successful insourcing and/or outsourcing specific maintenance task balancing internal skillsets with frugality
Safety, security, and availability incident response, incident management, and incident resolution
Continuous improvement of operational processes, procedures, methods, and tools
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or above in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
Experience managing large teams across multiple locations and languages, or experience as an acting operations manager
Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
5+ years of analytical, quantitative, communication, and presentations experience
10+ years of relevant work in a data center or other critical environment experience
Preferred
Experience with continuous improvement methods such as Kaizen, Lean, DMAIC, etc
Knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and controls systems for critical infrastructures
Experience in one or more IT infrastructure domains (storage, compute, networking, security, software development, systems administration, database engineering or administration, machine learning, cloud infrastructure, big data, DevOps, or other IT infrastructure domain)
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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