Structural Engineer, FRE-CSA

About the Role

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, supporting all AWS data centers and the equipment that ensures customer access to innovation. The Structural Engineer in the Fleet Remediation Engineering, Civil Structural and Architectural (FRE-CSA) team understands customer demand, technology, and business opportunities to achieve organizational goals. This role proposes and analyzes multiple solutions for efficient, cost-effective, resilient, and scalable structural designs/remediations. The Structural Engineer provides global vision, rationale, and recommendations to leadership for next-generation data center structural design and remediation, ensuring current structural systems meet performance and operational standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide full life-cycle support to AWS data centers from design inception through site improvement and maintenance.
• Serve as the 'go-to' engineering resource for your region when technical advice is needed.
• Work with a team of multi-disciplinary professionals on a wide variety of conceptual design, build, and retrofit projects at existing data centers.
• Create, review, and release data center structural improvements and designs.
• Drive refinements to the Basis of Design, product development, sustainability, and template specifications for structural systems.
• Act as a technical advisor for projects, including review of foundation and structural systems.
• Create, review, and release structural design RFPs.
• Manage external structural design consultants through the audit, design, and implementation of a variety of projects.
• Coordinate with internal engineering, construction, and other stakeholder teams.
• Lead initiatives aimed at improving quality, schedule, consistency, or reducing costs for data center construction and improvement projects.
• Work on multiple data center build and capital improvement projects simultaneously while maintaining safety and availability constraints.
• Communicate technical decisions to Senior Engineers and drive continuous improvements with designs.

Travel

• Up to 50% domestic travel with short notice is necessary.
• International support will be part of the job, requiring some international travel with short notice.
• Support may include auditing/inspecting data centers, working on international teams, and developing schematic and design document packages for global future and existing sites.
• Ability and willingness to travel for site walks and field observations internationally/domestically with short notice.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Structural Engineering.
• Experience with the design, construction, operation, or maintenance of mission-critical facilities, especially data centers.
• Experience reading and interpreting construction drawings and specifications, OR experience reading and writing procedures, technical documents, and engineering drawings.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of building codes and regulations for your region.
• Experience using a variety of web-based and other software tools for calculation and data processing.
• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents.