The Colocation Design Standards Team is looking for a Senior Fire Protection Design Standards Engineer to drive standards, consistency, and constant improvement in our global colocation fleet of data centers. If you have experience developing global design and working within a broad design and construction infrastructure environment, we'd like to meet you. Your work will make a global impact on the future of our data centers.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Frankfurt, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Zaragoza, Paris, Milan, Zurich.
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support 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.
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.
Key job responsibilitiesDevelop and maintain global consistent colocation design standards to drive equivalent resilience in colocation data centers to AWS owned sites.Develop standards and processes to support local team in negotiations with colo fire engineering and local authorities.Work with our global colocation partners to drive consistent solutions to expedite review processes and drive cost efficiency.Set up global strategies to deploy specific products or designs, and drive key global colocation initiatives.25% international travel. A day in the life
The Colocation Design Standards (CoDeS) team drives the global standardization of technical solutions for AWS Colocation (colo) sites. The team owns the creation and update of engineering standards for colo sites, following the performance objectives set in AWS Basis of Design (BoD) and creating those for colocation specific technology. The team also provides technical support for AWS product colo readiness to enable efficient deployment. CoDeS global standardization of technical designs objectives is key to enable more efficient and consistent capacity ingestion for the delivery teams.
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Minimum RequirementsBachelor's degree in Fire Protection Engineering, or an equivalent engineering degree in a related field with at least 5 years additional qualifying experience.5+ years of experience in engineering or the construction industry, related to all aspects of fire protection, including fire suppression systems, fire alarm and detection systems, fire-resistive construction, and life safety.3+ years of fire engineering experience in data centers, preferably in colocation facilities.Experience applying local codes, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards, International Code Council (ICC) requirements, and other fire protection industry standards, procedures, and methodologies.Experience with processes of design review, specification, development of design standards, and submittal review and the ability to read and understand construction documents.Experience authoring standards, white papers, technical documentation, training materials, Code Modification Requests (CMRs), and Alternate Materials and Methods (AMM) proposals.Experience directly related to construction of data centers, critical medical, industrial, construction, oil and gas, or large-scale mechanical and power systems with advance knowledge of both mechanical and electrical systems commissioning.Licensed Fire Protection Engineer with knowledge of BS, ICC Codes, NFPA Standards, FM global requirements and other fire protection industry standards, procedures, and methodologies.Experience in the development processes for codes and standards; NFPA technical committee participation.Experience submitting and negotiating fire permits, and conducting building design reviews with local authorities. Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
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