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 centres 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.
The Data Centre Global Engineering Operations organisation is looking for an individual with proven and tested leadership skills to help bring to fruition a newly developed Facilities Operations Centre (FOC). The FOC is responsible for 24X7 monitoring of the data centre’s physical infrastructure and will serve as a facilitator for all Large Scale Events (LSEs) and Critical Site Events (CSEs). This role will also serve as a central monitoring location for the facility electrical and mechanical systems. This team will ensure that the customer experience will be optimal and gratifying by way of consistency, reliability and attention to detail.
The ideal candidate will need to have an understanding of data centre IT infrastructure and data centre facilities infrastructure and how the two entities co-exist. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing assistance and support to the onsite team. The position will help ensure overall availability and reliability to meet or exceed defined service levels. Qualified candidates must also have experience functioning in a large-scale data centre and have demonstrated and displayed the ability to think outside of the box. This skill is essential, as the candidate will assist with aligning the FOC with the larger objectives of other business and peer organisations. You will need to play a role with growing the team to a standard of operational excellence.
If you are passionate about the Customer Experience, you think and act globally, and you want to contribute to the operational excellence of Amazon Data Centre's, then this may be the challenge you’ve been looking for!
Key job responsibilities
You'll be the operational heartbeat of our data centre infrastructure — monitoring, coordinating, and driving excellence across every shift.
Your core mission centres on real-time monitoring of the Amazon facilities infrastructure platform, where you'll interpret signals from electrical and mechanical systems to maintain optimal performance. You'll serve as the trusted point of contact for both internal engineering teams and external partners, ensuring seamless communication flows during normal operations and critical events alike.
When emergencies strike, you'll step into a coordination role that demands clarity under pressure. You'll facilitate recovery efforts during Large Scale Events and Critical Site Events, bringing together the right people with the right information at the right time. Your post-mortem contributions will turn incidents into insights, strengthening the entire operation with every lesson learned.
Beyond reactive response, you'll be a builder. You'll help develop communication and escalation protocols that sharpen team performance, and contribute to creating tools that make the entire FOC more effective. Your meticulous record-keeping will ensure continuity across shifts and provide the data foundation for continuous improvement.
This is shift work in a 24/7 environment — weekends and holidays included — because the infrastructure never sleeps, and neither does your commitment to the customer experience. Every shift you complete is another layer of reliability added to the systems that Australia's most critical operations depend upon.
A day in the life
Your day begins with a handover that's more than a formality — it's a transfer of situational awareness. You absorb the state of play across the entire facility ecosystem: which systems are nominal, what's being watched, and where attention might be needed next.
Screens illuminate with real-time data from electrical and mechanical systems across the data centre fleet. You're reading the rhythm of the infrastructure — power distribution, cooling performance, environmental conditions — identifying patterns before they become problems. A temperature anomaly in one zone catches your eye; you investigate, correlate with recent maintenance activity, and determine it's within expected parameters. Documented. Noted. Moving on.
Mid-shift, an alert escalates. A critical system requires coordinated response. You activate the communication protocol you helped design, reaching the right engineers within minutes. As the facilitator, you're tracking actions, updating stakeholders, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks. The issue resolves cleanly — another testament to preparation meeting execution.
Between events, you're collaborating with peers on improving a monitoring dashboard, drafting a proposal for a new escalation pathway, or reviewing post-mortem findings from last week's incident. You're not just maintaining the status quo — you're actively raising the bar.
As your shift closes, you compile a comprehensive handover that gives the incoming team everything they need to maintain continuity. You leave knowing that your vigilance kept critical systems running, your coordination brought teams together, and your ideas are making the operation stronger every day.
About the team
About the team
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- 2+ years of Electrical or Mechanical Experience
- 1+ years of experience working with Building and/or Electrical Platform Management Systems
- 2+ Years’ Experience in Data Centre Engineering/ Operations
- 3+ years’ experience working in a large-scale data centre and 3+ years’ experience in a NOC (Network Operations Centre) or similar
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Access)
- Ability to maintain SLAs through the implementation of proactive issue detection and reporting tools and ability to follow and complete support procedures, system documentation, and issue tracking entries, root cause analysis and complex problem solving skills
Acknowledgement of country:
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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