Regional Enviro Engineer, AWS Environmental Team

Job :  | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. 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. We are looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards of safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. You’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Join a dynamic team of environmental professionals who play a leading role in environmental permitting and compliance  work of our Regional Environmental Engineers is critical to enabling AWS's growth in the US and around the world.

The AWS Environmental team is an expanding and dynamic team that is critical to enabling AWS’s growth worldwide, ensuring compliance of AWS’s global operations, including physical data centers, and other facilities. The team is responsible for architecting and implementing AWS’s global environmental programs: defining and implementing risk management and compliance systems; setting and refining global policies and procedures; overseeing the development of standards, tools, auditing, and metrics;

providing specialist expertise; and engaging with all AWS business units to provide scalable compliance strategies that support current and future business objectives while ensuring compliance with environmental regulations.

You will partner with AWS stakeholders to develop regional and site‑specific development strategies that enable the construction and operation of AWS data centers and infrastructure. You will lead environmental due diligence for site selection and acquisition, develop and execute site‑specific environmental permitting strategies, support environmental compliance during design and construction, and prepare for data center operations. This role requires regular engagement throughout the development lifecycle with multiple AWS stakeholders including Real Estate, Legal, Risk, Water, Design, Public Policy, Construction, and Operational teams, as well as external stakeholders including regulatory agencies, consultants, and contractors.

A successful candidate has a proven track record of delivering multiple, high‑priority projects with tight timelines that require strong communication with partner teams, outside consultants, counsel, and regulatory agencies. The candidate must have a deep understanding of multi‑media United States environmental permitting, remediation, and compliance requirements associated with large‑scale infrastructure, including experience with Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act (CWA) 404 and NPDES permitting, Threatened & Endangered Species, RCRA, SPCC, and SARA Title III.

• Assess environmental risks and requirements and develop mitigations and strategies to support data center siting and development strategies and site‑specific project delivery.
• Lead technical aspects of environmental due diligence, including Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, regulatory and permitting evaluations, natural, biological and cultural resource evaluations, and noise assessments.
• Deliver environmental permits, approvals, and plans to enable on‑time and compliant construction and operations for new data center locations and expansion of existing sites.
• Communicate environmental requirements, risks, and activities to internal and external project partners.
• Coordinate with partner teams including Real Estate, Design, Water, Legal, Risk, Power, and others to optimize site designs considering natural resource or operational constraints.
• Develop site development and permitting strategies that are…