Sr. Geotechnical Engineer, Global Engineering Strategy

Description

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.

The Global Engineering Strategy team (GES) is looking for a results‑oriented, inventive senior geotechnical engineer to drive front‑end geotechnical engineering for new owned and leased site developments. You will lead the geotechnical engineering due diligence and design‑ready geotechnical efforts for new and expanding regions, while maintaining the highest performance standards and utilizing innovation to reduce budgets and increase efficiency. You will sit within the Design Engineering team of the broader Data Center Engineering (DCE) organization.

You will work with Real Estate, Risk and Resiliency, Environmental, Pre‑Construction, and related partner teams on global design strategy implementation. You will assist in data center site selection, review of due diligence reports, lead geotechnical investigations and preliminary engineering, and play a pivotal role in the delivery of data center designs.

• Are strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery.
• Provide creative engineering balanced with high quality and customer focus.
• Work as part of a team to accomplish our goals.
• Perform technical design engineering diligence for global regions.
• Thrive in a fast‑paced environment.
• Lead project teams through ambiguity.
• Understand the best practices for data center project delivery.
• Have extensive experience within the arena of domestic and international data center delivery.

• Collaborating with internal stakeholders during the due diligence and pre‑design phases to oversee the process and ensure design requirements are considered.
• Collaborating with internal teams to gather data to ensure pre‑requisites for start of design stage are met.
• Leading due diligence and pre‑design geotechnical investigations, managing internal partners and external vendor consultants, ensuring design‑ready geotechnical deliverables are completed and handed over for successful design execution.
• Rollout strategy of new data center design types and intercepts that impact geotechnical investigations and engineering.
• Provide engineering design decisions to the partner teams for strategic planning and region selection.
• Collaborate with other DCE teams developing new data center infrastructure products, and design execution team disciplines such as civil engineering, structural engineering and architects to assess how our various design types, BOD and products can be deployed for a certain site development project.
• Ability to work on concurrent projects in multiple geographical regions.
• Escalate issues as required and communicate clearly and effectively at the appropriate level of detail with people from a wide range of technical abilities, backgrounds and levels of leadership.

Travel will occasionally be necessary but shouldn’t be more than 25%.

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