Data Center Engineering Operations Technician - Northern Virginia jobs in United States
cer-icon
Apply on Employer Site
company-logo

Amazon · 3 weeks ago

Data Center Engineering Operations Technician - Northern Virginia

Amazon is seeking a Data Center Engineering Operations Technician to join their team in Northern Virginia. The role involves maintaining and operating critical infrastructure systems in data centers, ensuring reliability and availability through monitoring, troubleshooting, and technical writing.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
check
H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Daily building rounds to monitor and record information from electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment to ensure 24/7 reliability and availability
Monitor Building Management Systems (BMS) and Electrical Power Management System (EPMS)
Assist in troubleshooting of facility and rack-level events within internal Service Level Agreements (SLA)
Perform rack installs and rack decommissioning within internal SLA
Perform PM, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and repair of electrical and mechanical equipment
Technical writing to support change management program
Monitor daily work requests and manage to resolution, and execute projects from conception to completion
On-site support of contractors, sub-contractors and vendors, ensuring that all work performed is in accordance with established practices, procedures & local legislation
Work schedule changes depending on specific site needs. Shifts can be up to 12-hours and may rotate on a predefined schedule. Some locations have on-call rotations
Role may support more than one location/site

Qualification

Electrical systemsMechanical systemsHVACFire suppression systemsBuilding Management SystemsElectrical Power Management SystemNetwork designLow voltage cablingTechnical writingTroubleshootingRoot cause analysisOn-site supportProject management

Required

Work shifts longer than eight hours in duration
2+ years of practical experience in electrical systems, mechanical systems, HVAC, and/or fire suppression systems
Can bend or twist the body into unusual positions while working, use hands to manipulate small wires and objects, walk on job sites in uneven terrain, and work at heights and from ladders

Preferred

Knowledge of network design and layout as well as low voltage (copper/ fiber) cabling
Experience in data center engineering

Benefits

Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

Company

Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

H1B Sponsorship

Amazon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (22803)
2024 (21175)
2023 (19057)
2022 (24088)
2021 (12233)
2020 (14881)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$8.11B
Key Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO

Leadership Team

leader-logo
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
linkedin
leader-logo
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
linkedin
Company data provided by crunchbase