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Amazon

Sells products online and rents cloud computing

Facility Engineer - Data Center Engineering Operations

General Maintenance & RepairConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of relevant practical experience operating and maintaining mission-critical facilities, such as a 24-hour factory, substation, or hospital.
  • Experience with or basic understanding of maintenance, change management, incident management, and vendor management, and the ability to work in compliance with policies, processes, and procedures.
  • Oral and written proficiency in both Japanese at approximately JLPT N2 level and English at approximately TOEIC 550 level or sufficient to handle routine work in English.

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, operate, and maintain facility systems, including electrical and mechanical systems, controls, and fire suppression systems, at large, high-density data centers, and manage related projects.
  • Inspect and monitor building systems and troubleshoot facility issues.
  • Improve operational efficiency and reduce energy consumption.
  • Plan and carry out scheduled maintenance and repairs with vendors and partners, including critical facility operations such as breaker and mechanical/electrical equipment operations.
  • Verify electrical and cooling capacity before installing new capacity.
  • Review designs for new data center construction and expansions of existing data centers.
  • Work with project team members to support construction and testing.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation with all team members outside normal working hours; shifts may be required depending on business needs.

Desired Qualifications

  • A data-center-related qualification such as CDCP, CDCS, CDCE, or ASHRAE, or a data-center-management qualification such as Second- or Third-Class Chief Electrical Engineer, Energy Manager, Class 4 Hazardous Materials Engineer, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineer, or Second-Class Electrician.
  • A project management qualification such as PMP, Prince2, ITILv2, or BICSI.
  • Advanced understanding of electrical systems, including substation power supply systems, transformers, switchgear, VFI-class UPS, DRUPS, PDU, ATS, STS, SLA or VRLA batteries and related systems, fuel systems for diesel/gas turbine generators, surge control circuits, active harmonic filters, battery monitoring systems, branch circuit monitoring systems, and SCADA systems.
  • Advanced understanding of mechanical systems, including CRAC/CRAH, AHU, chillers, cooling towers, storage tanks, heat exchangers, piping systems, pumps, valves, duct systems, fans, dampers, fire detection and suppression systems, drainage systems, building monitoring systems, and automated control systems.
  • Fluency in English, demonstrated by a TOEIC score of 800 or higher or equivalent.

About the Company

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Amazon

Sells products online and rents cloud computing

Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Seattle, WA
Founded
1994

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