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Applicants must be Australian citizens and hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance with the ability to successfully complete an Organisational Suitability Assessment. More information regarding security clearances can be found at https://www.agsva.gov.au/.
The Mission - Why This Program, Why Now?
You're joining at the defining moment of one of the most significant technology programmes Australia has ever undertaken. This programme will build and operate the dedicated cloud giving Australia's national security community and its allies the capability to see more, share more, innovate and act faster than ever before.
The architectural decisions being made now - how we structure networking, implement security controls, and automate at scale - will shape how Australia's national security community operates for the next decade. You won't be inheriting someone else's design choices. You'll be making them.
Your Opportunity
Imagine being at the forefront of Australia's most critical infrastructure — where every system you commission powers the innovation that millions rely on. As a Commissioning Engineer within Amazon Data Center Commissioning (ACx), you'll step into a role where your expertise in critical infrastructure directly shapes the backbone of AWS across APJC and beyond.
You'll join a team of brilliant, diverse minds — software and hardware engineers, network specialists, supply chain experts, security professionals, and operations leaders — all united by a shared purpose: delivering the highest standards of safety, security, and quality while enabling seemingly infinite capacity for customers worldwide.
This isn't just another engineering role. This is your chance to build, retrofit, and improve AWS-owned substations and data centres, solving fascinating challenges that few engineers ever encounter. You'll work backwards from customer needs, innovating at every turn, and your decisions will directly impact the reliability and performance of one of the world's most advanced cloud platforms.
The culture here welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion. If you're ready to tackle the most challenging problems in critical infrastructure — with thousands of variables and the highest stakes — this is where your career accelerates.
Benefits
- Learning & development - AWS training and certification support, access to internal learning platforms.
- Health, income protection and life cover - Amazon subsidises private health insurance premiums, and group salary continuance and life insurance are included at no cost to you.
- Military differential pay launching in Australia - Australian employees taking defence reserve leave may receive up to 52 weeks of military differential pay to help cover the difference in pay while serving
- Employee Assistance Program - Free, confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for you and your family - mental health, financial coaching, legal questions, and everyday life events.
- Family-building benefit - Access to Maven for fertility treatment, adoption support, surrogacy, and parenting coaching.
- Amazon Extras & employee discount - cashback and discounts across hundreds of retail, fitness, travel, and lifestyle partners.
Key job responsibilities
As a Commissioning Engineer, you'll be the guardian of quality and performance for AWS's most critical infrastructure assets. Your expertise will bridge the gap between engineering design and operational excellence.
You'll lead commissioning processes for AWS substations and data centres, ensuring every piece of power and cooling equipment meets exacting engineering design specifications before it goes live. Your days will be spent evaluating construction quality, defining performance benchmarks, and managing expectations across multi-disciplinary teams.
You'll innovate commissioning methodologies — developing smarter, faster ways to validate critical systems while never compromising on safety or quality. When challenges arise (and they will — these are some of the most complex facilities ever built), you'll draw on your deep technical knowledge to find solutions that others haven't considered.
Collaboration is at the heart of this role. You'll work alongside engineers, construction teams, and operations managers across AWS, translating complex technical requirements into clear commissioning plans that everyone can execute against. You'll also contribute to retrofitting and improving existing infrastructure, ensuring AWS's growing fleet of facilities continues to meet evolving customer demands.
Your impact will be measured not just in successful handovers, but in the confidence that every system you commission will perform flawlessly when customers need it most.
The responsibilities of the ACx Commissioning Engineer (CxE) include, but are not limited to, oversight and coordination of multi-discipline division of work related to pre-commissioning and commissioning of Amazon critical infrastructure construction and special projects.
You are responsible for managing and supporting commissioning vendors, contractors and other teams involved in the construction and commissioning of various systems including high, medium and low voltage power systems, Generators, UPS, HVAC, Chilled Water, BMS and EPMS systems. You will provide multi-discipline input into scheduling, designing, planning of project execution and innovation projects. In addition, you will be required to review all multi-discipline integrated systems testing and commissioning documents to ensure they are compliant with the basis of design, project specifications and standards.
In this role, you will have APJC and global presence, this will include traveling to sites located in-country, across APJC and globally up 20% of the time. You will be responsible to ensure that all commissioning procedures follow the appropriate safety practices, policies and procedures. You will participate in all project and company safety programs and also audit commissioning activities to ensure compliance with environmental, quality, and safety requirements. You will report to the ACx Regional Manager and ensure that the applicable test documents are created in accordance with all commissioning requirements. You are responsible for weekly reporting of commissioning progress and metrics for assigned projects. You will work in a high velocity environment, on multiple strategic initiatives, continuous improvement projects and deliver projects simultaneously under tight deadlines and according to prescribed metrics.
Systems Analysis
- Understand the design concept and intent by reviewing mechanical and electrical construction documentation, including drawings, specifications, vendor submittals and sequences of operations.
- Provide recommendations and feedback regarding the design, equipment selection, pre-functional checklists, startup and functional test scripts developed by others, maintainability, construct-ability and commission-ability.
- Review documentation for compliance with Amazon standards, industry standards, and design specifications.
- Assess the capability of commissioned systems to match the design and find opportunities for improvements.
Systems Validation
- Verify the system’s performance, including establishing acceptance criteria, obtaining and reviewing completed reports, performing verification and validation.
- Validates in as-built documentation and review for accuracy and completeness.
- Communicates commissioning issues, questions and concerns through proper channels in a timely manner.
- Partners internal and external teams to ensure commissioning regime has sufficient depth and breadth.
- Supports commissioning audits
Project Management
- Managing and executing of commissioning of critical infrastructure to validate installation, operation and performance of mechanical, electrical and controls systems.
- Acting as the point of contact for commissioning vendors’ escalations, developing mitigation plans to unblock obstacles.
- Managing vendors via audits of deliverables and setting expectations with commissioning vendors to work in accordance with Amazon requirements.
- Developing project schedules and plans, not limited to project deliveries, strategic initiatives and innovation projects.
- Representing ACx in projects coordination meetings with external vendors and contractors and internal stakeholders.
- Maintaining quality of commissioning documentation
- Managing concurrent projects across multiple geographical regions and time zones.
A day in the life
Additional role requirements
- Ability and willingness to travel domestic and internationally for up to 25% of the time (Typical travel is 10%).
- Required to work longer than eight hours in duration with potential for night and weekends works.
- Required to work in a construction environment with unfamiliar conditions requiring Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
- Troubleshooting including the use of handheld equipment.
- Due to the location of our sites, candidates should possess a valid driver's license and their own vehicle.
About the team
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
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Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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