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.
As an Amazon Fleet Remediation Engineering (FRE) Regional Manager, you will manage a team that provides full life-cycle support to AWS existing Data Centers for retrofits and upgrades. Your team will be the ‘go to’ engineering resource for your region when technical advice is needed, and will use your subject matter expertise and engage with diverse teams to expand and support our large and growing portfolio.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
- Hire, coach, and develop employees that demonstrate Amazon Leadership Principles.
- Manage team and individual performance, including promotions.
- Create and improve metrics, driving efficiencies in repeatable work.
- Apply high judgement to make trade-offs on competing business needs.
- Establish strategic direction of the EMEA team, and influence roadmaps of technical or business partner teams.
- Identify resource requirements and gaps, establishing a regional team roadmap to success.
- Work directly with partner teams to implement new and improve existing processes and procedures, within their region and propagate globally where necessary.
- Drive strategic communication, provides a technical strategy with limited guidance within their assigned Region.
- Manage managers and team members with varying technical experience.
- Identify risks and complexity to unblock engineers and partner teams.
- Drive team timeliness, quality, operational stability and success meeting customer requirements/business objectives. Can identify where to simplify, optimize, and reduce overhead.
- Establish and/or streamline metrics, development, engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices. Share best practices with peers.
- Build trust and relationships with different stakeholders (e.g., Operations, Commissioning, Construction and Design)

A day in the life
Each day you will interact with different teams responsible for all aspects of the data centers. You will prioritize your team’s activities to support data center capacity, availability, efficiency, and safety focusing on the actions that are most impactful. You will have the opportunity to work on projects locally and globally.

About the team
About the team
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor’s Degree in electrical/Mechanical/Structural Engineering or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years in managing a distributed engineering team. (Experienced Manager).
- Managed a team of 6+ direct reports for 6+ years
- Experience in managing other managers
Preferred Qualifications: - Organized, with the ability to set priorities and meet deadlines and budget
- Excellent leadership and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and writing skills, attention to detail, with high quality standards
- Understanding of both mechanical and electrical equipment/design related to data centers (Including but not limited to: uninterruptable power sources, diesel generators, electrical switchgear, power distribution units, variable frequency drives, automatic/static transfer switches, chillers [air-cooled and water-cooled], pumps, cooling towers, heat exchangers, CRAHs, air economizers, etc...)
- Ability to develop solutions and execute plans on complex projects
- Previous ownership of fast-track design/build projects and or multiple significant upgrade projects

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Sr Regional Mgr - Data Center Engineering - Retrofits and Upgardes - EMEA, Data Center Community

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