Engineering Operation Technician, DCC Communities
Amazon· Operations, IT, & Support Engineering
Chantilly, VA, Leesburg, VA$37.64/hr - $65.91/hrFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Data Center Engineering Technician role focused on hands-on electrical and mechanical maintenance, troubleshooting, and operation of mission-critical data center facilities to maintain high uptime and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Daily building rounds to monitor and record information from electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment to ensure 24/7 reliability and availability
- Monitor Building Management Systems (BMS) and Electrical Power Management System (EPMS)
- Assist in troubleshooting of facility and rack-level events within internal Service Level Agreements (SLA)
- Perform rack installs and rack decommissioning within internal SLA
- Perform PM, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and repair of electrical and mechanical equipment
- Technical writing to support change management program
- Monitor daily work requests and manage to resolution, and execute projects from conception to completion
- On-site support of contractors, sub-contractors and vendors, ensuring that all work performed is in accordance with established practices, procedures & local legislation
- Work schedule changes depending on specific site needs. Shifts can be up to 12-hours and may rotate on a predefined schedule. Some locations have on-call rotations
- Role may support more than one location/site
- Willingness and demonstrated ability to travel to or between data center locations as needed
- Temporary work at alternative sites during training periods or until assigned facility is operational
- Travel frequency will vary based on business needs and operational status of assigned facility
- Act as front line for preventive maintenance and troubleshooting of critical facility equipment, reporting to Data Center Facility Manager
- Maintain, operate, and troubleshoot stand-by diesel generators, three-phase electrical systems (switchgear, UPS, PDUs, batteries), CRAC, chillers, cooling towers, water chemical systems, air handlers, pumps, motors, fire/life safety equipment, BMS, general facilities equipment
Qualifications
- 2+ years of electrical and mechanical facilities maintenance, or 2+ years of electrical facilities maintenance and 1+ years of mechanical facilities maintenance experience
- 2+ years of Microsoft Office products and applications experience
- Work flexible schedule including weekends, nights, and holidays
Skills
Required:Electrical and mechanical facilities maintenanceBuilding Management Systems (BMS) and EPMSRack install/decommissionPM and RCACollaboration with contractors/vendors
Nice to have:Technical writing
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parential leave
- sign-on payments and RSUs as part of compensation
- comprehensive benefits information available via company page
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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