Data Center Night Manager

Manage a team that maintains cloud infrastructure for global data centre operations!

AWS is looking for technology managers with experience in people management, strong technical understanding and the drive and vision to take AWS Data Centre Operations to the next level. The successful candidate will have experience creating/devising strategies, mentoring people at all levels, sponsoring projects, and proposing technical solutions. This position involves leading teams in hardware and network diagnostics followed by physical repair and includes participation in an on‑call rotation.

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 centres and all 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.

PDX is an AWS Gov Cloud region. As required by our contracts with the federal government, effective February 24, 2026, logical access to the AWS Gov Cloud region will be restricted to Amazon employees who are U.S. Citizens. (Gov Cloud may NOT be accessed from outside of the United States).

The successful candidate will be operationally responsible for a Data Centre. Some high‑level responsibilities include:

Manage the performance of a diverse team(s) of data centre operation professionals with varying skills across different locations

Developing career paths for the employees and making updates in our internal tools.

Ensure effective and efficient management of day‑to‑day data centre operations including queue management, 7/24 shift arrangement and hardware logistics

Fast learn or act as the subject matter expert across all aspects in data centre operations

Inspire and guide improvement in team process, technology innovation and automation

Recommend, document, and oversee policies and procedures to meet industry best practices and to meet required SLAs

Be passionate about the quality and quantity of services being provided, and continuously strive to improve our customer experience

This role supports data centres in various operational stages. The position may be assigned to a facility still under development, which could require travel to established locations for training until your designated site becomes fully operational.

Willingness to temporarily 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

Candidates must be able to travel (over 50 miles) or commute (less than 50 miles) to active data centre sites as required by business needs.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a fast paced technology company and a leader in the world of data centres. The position will help ensure overall availability and reliability to meet or exceed defined service levels of data centre operations. We are currently expanding our…