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Sr. ICT Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
Amazon Web Services (aws) 🇺🇸 Herndon, Virginia, United States of America
The Senior ICT Design Engineer will lead the design and delivery of scalable ICT systems across multiple data center builds. This role involves driving design standards, coordinating with various engineering disciplines, and mentoring junior engineers.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, high-performance fiber optic and copper plant designs, pathway systems, and ICT specifications
- Own the ICT architecture for complex, large-scale data center programs
- Drive the development and continuous improvement of ICT design standards, BOD templates, specification sections, and QA/QC checklists
- Identify and resolve complex cross-discipline coordination challenges
- Take a long-term view of infrastructure design decisions, balancing short-term project needs against global architectural consistency and future scalability
- Define and enforce ICT engineering best practices, design standards, and quality benchmarks
- Lead and conduct design milestone reviews for ICT systems
- Review and approve ICT pathway, cabling, and equipment submittals
- Drive root-cause analysis for endemic design deficiencies and lead programmatic initiatives to resolve them
- Contribute to and lead Correction of Errors (COE) processes and Lessons Learned reviews
- Serve as the primary ICT technical point of contact for complex projects and regional programs
- Collaborate with the Security, Electrical, Civil, and Architectural disciplines to ensure ICT pathway and cabling designs are fully coordinated and constructible
- Partner with SPEAR, DCESS, and other AWS security stakeholders to ensure ICT designs support physical security system integration requirements
- Engage cross-functionally with stakeholder teams to gather technical requirements, align on constraints, and develop infrastructure designs
- Engage with industry suppliers, manufacturers, and standards bodies to define product requirements, evaluate emerging technologies, and influence AWS procurement strategy
- Identify, evaluate, and champion new ICT technologies, construction methods, and design approaches
- Actively mentor and develop ICT engineers, improving their technical knowledge, design skills, and ability to deliver independently
- Lead and participate in the hiring process, including conducting technical interviews and providing calibrated assessments for ICT engineering candidates
- Provide technical assessments for DCIE promotion evaluations, contributing to the professional development of colleagues across the organization
- Travel 25%+ to conduct site visits, lead in-person design reviews, coordinate with onsite personnel and contractors, and validate ICT infrastructure at AWS data centers globally
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
- 7+ years of experience in industrial or commercial engineering in mission-critical facilities
- 5+ years of ICT design experience in Mission Critical Environments
- 5+ years of experience developing and leading the production of design documentation
- 7+ years of hands-on experience with fiber optic components, cabling, interconnect products, technologies, and applicable standards
- Demonstrated experience driving engineering standards, design best practices, or process improvements across a team or organization
- Experience leading cross-discipline design coordination in a large-scale infrastructure or construction program
- BICSI RCDD Certification or internationally recognized equivalent
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Opportunity to work with a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles
- Inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion
Key Skills
About Amazon Web Services (aws)
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.
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