The Colo Design Standards Engineer role at AWS focuses on driving design and availability consistency across colocation data centers. The engineer will collaborate with various teams to establish and update standards for colocation capacity, ensuring resilience and efficiency. This position involves working with global colocation partners and regional engineering teams to implement consistent solutions. The role also emphasizes the importance of documentation and management of design guides and standards.

• 6+ years of data center design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance experience
• 6+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including data centers, power generation, or oil and gas facilities
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
• Knowledge of critical data center mechanical and electrical equipment
• Experience in researching new designs, technologies, and construction methods of data center equipment and facilities
• Professional Engineering or Architectural License
• Knowledge of building codes and regulations for your region
• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents

• Develop and maintain consistent colocation design standards to drive equivalent resilience in colocation data centers to AWS owned sites.
• Support the deployment of new AWS products in colocation data centers in a consistent way.
• Input into global design standards and generational data center template designs.
• Work with regional colo engineering teams to review and accept proposed changes to the site specific infrastructure against our data center standards.
• Collaborate with global colocation partners to drive consistent standard solutions to expedite review processes and drive cost efficiency.
• Drive key global colocation initiatives.
• Document, release, and manage design guides, standards, specifications, and procedures.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.