# Engineering Operations Technician Intern

**Company**: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: internship
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Important: This role is based at a location with limited public transport. A valid driving license and access to a personal vehicle are required.

Want to be part of the team that keeps the world's largest cloud running? As an Engineering Operations Technician Intern at Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will get hands-on experience with the critical infrastructure behind Amazon's global data centers , and your work will directly impact millions of customers worldwide.

This internship is designed as a potential pathway to full-time employment. Interns who demonstrate strong performance throughout their internship may be considered for a full-time Engineering Operations Technician position, subject to available roles and business needs.

As an intern, you will provide technical support within Amazon's owned and operated data centers. Your work will ensure that the data center's mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems operate at 100% availability while maintaining first-class customer service to the teams and groups on site.

You will be exposed to both independent work and team-based collaboration. Prioritization, organizational skills, effective communication, and the ability to react quickly are critical to being successful.

The Engineering Operations team is Amazon's front-line responders for hands-on electrical and mechanical equipment troubleshooting and operations. You will work with equipment that supports mission-critical servers and must maintain better than 99.999% uptime. This equipment includes:

- Stand-by diesel generators and switchgear

- Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs) and Power Distribution Units (PDUs)

- Air Handling Units (AHUs), chillers, and cooling towers

- Chemical treatment systems, pumps, motors, and Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs)

- Building automation systems

Your day-to-day duties include:

- Maintaining mechanical and electrical equipment

- Assisting with root cause analysis of equipment failures

- Troubleshooting facility and rack-level events within internal Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

- Taking daily operational readings of all mechanical and electrical equipment

- Using internal Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) to manage building workflows

- Interacting with third-party vendors and contractors working on site

Internship Structure:

Amazon internships are full-time (40 hours per week) for 24 consecutive weeks. This position requires the intern to report to work on site daily. Intern schedules are typically day schedules, Monday through Friday.

Please note that full-time Engineering Operations Technician roles operate on a rotating shift pattern, which may include days, nights, weekends, and public holidays. Candidates should be willing and able to commit to shift work upon transitioning to a full-time position.

Benefits:

- Impact: Your work shapes the infrastructure that millions of customers rely on every day. From cloud computing to artificial intelligence, the systems you maintain power it all.

- Action: You will move fast, experiment, and learn by doing. Your ideas do not get stuck in approval chains , they get tested, refined, and put into practice.

- Curiosity: Every project teaches you something new. You will apply what you learned in the classroom to real challenges and explore different teams, technologies, and career paths within Amazon.

- Mentorship and career growth: You will start with structured onboarding and get paired with experienced mentors. Beyond that, you will find continuous learning opportunities and the chance to work on different projects. Your journey here is yours to shape.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- English proficiency
- teamwork
- time management

### Nice to have
- program or project management
- mechanical systems
- Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning systems

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