Sr. Controls System Development Engineer, Data Center Engineering

2 weeks ago

Columbus, United States Amazon Data Services, Inc. Full time
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for highly technical and critical individual to solve the most challenging problems in our industry. AWS Data Center Planning, Deliver, & Operations is a global team responsible for the design and operation of industry-leading, large-scale, business critical facilities. We are currently seeking highly motivated individuals with demonstrated design and analytical expertise in the execution of real time control on mission-critical facilities. At Amazon we leverage unique opportunities presented to us by bringing automation in house from medium voltage to low voltage automation solutions within our datacenters. We are diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented engineers and managers working on a daily basis to develop architectures and technology that are driving future data center designs. Amazon Engineers are constantly challenged to quickly deliver the highest quality and most technically efficient data centers in the world.

The ideal candidate will need a wide-ranging background in system development for data center controls systems, IT infrastructure, networking, facility operations, electrical switchgear and generator automation, project management and strong leadership skills.

If you are passionate about the Customer Experience, think and act with a global perspective and have the ability to contribute to sophisticated innovations in the area of building controls and automation initiatives, this is the challenge you are looking for

Responsibilities and Requirements
• Subject matter expert in low voltage switchgear breaker control and generator automation.
• Develop, program and iterate sequence of operations and HMI graphics leveraging PLC/PAC/IPC platforms for first of kind and retrofit electrical infrastructure automation projects to be rolled out at scale globally.
• Contribute and maintain a library of standard tested automation logic function blocks.
• Expert in IEC61131-3 programming language standards including ladder logic, structured text, function block, and sequential function chart.
• Have deep knowledge of the innerworkings of low voltage and/or medium voltage electrical equipment, electrical schematics, Building Management System and Electrical Power Monitoring programming concepts
• Developing automation sequences, mechanical plant strategies, and complex environmental and electrical concepts.
• Understand data center redundancy, electrical failure strategies, energy conservation best-case practices and data reporting analytics.
• Knowledge of how to successfully operate in high security critical environments while maximizing productivity.
• Be Innovative with new solutions to support initiatives, teams, and company goals.
• Lead and facilitate collaboration through multiple teams including construction, commissioning, development engineers, MEP/ACS engineers, and team managers as necessary to accomplish initiative goals on time.
• Create, maintain, and disseminate specification documents that pertain to global projects for automation system development.
• Vendor selection, bid review, RFI support and coordination.
• Central point of contact for multiple internal and external groups regarding electrical controls standards. Manage and prioritize requests for information on new construction builds, existing site facilities support and legacy site enhancement projects.
• Interaction with AWS cloud services and other applications in order to present, archive, deploy and analyze accumulated data.
• Expect to travel globally when needed to manage and/or support project initiatives.
• Anticipate roadblocks and risks while providing escalation management.

Key job responsibilities
The Controls System Development Engineer is responsible for technical writing tasks, electrical schematic interpretation to IO lists, parts BOM creation, full system development, scaling system design (operational performance & scalability), OT networking, OS configuration, operational excellence, as well as performing in depth root cause analysis of current AWS developed electrical switchgear and generator automation systems.

A day in the life
The SysDev Engineer works with AWS stakeholders ranging from Sr and Principle MEP Engineering, Product and Program managers, and Operations to create and iterate upon the AWS Infrastructure Automation products. Depending on scope and size of projects, this includes developing these systems jointly with the other developers on the team as well as on smaller projects as the sole engineer responsible for all aspects.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Austin, TX, USA Columbus, OH, USA Herndon, VA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 4+ years of systems development in an IT or data center environment experience
- 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- 2+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
- Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - 1+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers

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