The Principal Civil Engineer in Data Center Engineering – Civil, Structural, Architectural Solutions (DCE-CSAS) team has the ability to understand the customer demand as well as the technology & business opportunities that exist in order to lead the organization forward. You understand key problems, and propose and analyze multiple solutions to produce the most efficient, cost effective, resilient, and scalable civil designs/remediations achievable.
The Principal Civil Engineer in DCE-CSAS provides the global vision, rationale and recommendations to leadership teams for next-generation data center civil/site design and remediation on new and existing sites, while ensuring current civil engineering systems meet performance and operational standards.
As a Principal Civil Engineer in DCE-CSAS, you are a leader and visionary in your field, working within and leading the work of cross-functional teams that include: technical program management, product management, architect, structural engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, supply chain management, operations, safety and security, and legal. You will participate in external forums/consortiums to understand current trends and developments within the industry. You will be responsible for leading the global civil infrastructure strategy, product innovation and development, and audit/remediations of existing sites. This role will communicate the technical decisions we make to Senior Management and will drive continuous improvements with our designs.
Key job responsibilities
Amazon’s vision is to be the world’s most customer-centric company, and this role is key to that vision. As a Principal Civil Engineer, you will be leading projects to ever-evolving customer needs for the existing AWS data center fleet as we continue hyper-scale expansion. As an ideal candidate:
– You understand the key aspects of legacy and modern data center civil engineering systems. Using this experience, you identify improvement areas in existing and next-generation data center designs to address: master planning civil engineering systems, constructability and sustainability.
– You are responsible for and oversee the creation and improvement of data center basis of design & project specifications to drive standardization in the data center civil engineering performance.
– You conceive, initiate and lead projects with widespread impact on infrastructure design, innovation and implementation.
– You are responsible for, conduct, and provide oversight for the review of the civil design of next generation data center sites.
– You demonstrate ability to review business cases and analysis models including total cost of ownership and return on investment to select projects and designs.
– You decompose complex problems or new technologies or topologies to distill underlying risks and benefits, and identify straightforward and actionable solutions to reduce risk.
– You actively and aggressively grow and coach the engineering team through group forums and one-on-one coaching and mentoring to ensure development and promotion of the top engineers inside Data Center Engineering group.
– You oversee and plan engineering goals for key initiatives that support future projects and growth.
– You work independently and have frequent reviews with business leadership, other Principal Engineers and Sr Engineers across AWS.
– You actively facilitate the escalation of low-level project issues to senior engineering and business leadership.
A day in the life
Amazon has a global presence; therefore 30% to 40% travel will be necessary. International support will be part of the job, and some international travel will be necessary with short notice. Support could consist of auditing/inspecting data centers, working on international teams and could require developing schematic and design document packages for both global future and existing sites. An understanding of international design requirements is preferable.
About the team
Why AWS?
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We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA | Columbus, OH, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent experience.
– Professional Civil Engineering (PE) License.
– 10+ years professional experience in commercial, warehouse, and/or industrial site-civil new design and remediation with working knowledge of land use and land development conventional practices.
– 10+ years of experience with building codes, regulations, and standards including IBC and ASCE.
– Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction civil drawings, specifications, and submittal documents.
– Ability and willingness to travel internationally/domestically with short notice.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Master’s or PhD degree in Civil Engineering from an ABET-accredited university.
– 15+ years of relevant civil new design and remediation experience with data centers or telecom facilities or similar mission critical facilities.
– Proficiency with geotechnical engineering standards to review investigations and assessments to determine soil and rock conditions, site suitability, and potential hazards that may affect the project’s design, construction, or operation.
– Experience providing technical guidance to project managers, contractors, and other stakeholders on geotechnical issues such as foundation design, slope stability, earthworks, pavement design, and groundwater control.
– Experience providing new and remediation designs for site layout, grading, power substations, storm water, utilities, and pavement.
– Ability to utilize scheduling software to depict land-use approval critical path dependency activities.
– Knowledge of mission critical equipment and systems, design process, pre-construction requirements and the construction process.
– Direct experience with design or construction administration of a variety of electrical distribution systems ranging from low voltage to high voltage.
– Direct experience with operation and maintenance of mission critical facilities, especially data centers.
– Experience as resident engineer or hands-on (in the field) design consultant.
– Experience mentoring/training the engineering community on complex technical issues.
– Possess excellent communication skills, attention to detail, maintain high quality standards.
– Experience researching new designs, technologies, and construction methods of data center and carrying these into deployment.
– Ability and willingness to think outside of the box to find creative and innovative solutions to reduce costs while managing impact to quality, cost, or schedule.
– Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
– Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $130,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $252,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.