Inside Plant Cabling Quality Assurance Engineer, DCC Communities
Job ID: 3128425 | Amazon Data Services Spain, S.L.
AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support all AWS data centers and all of the 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.
Key Job Responsibilities

Drive world‑class quality in the Data Center to achieve the best operating, lowest cost infrastructure in the world. The QA engineer will be obsessed with quality, engineering and design continuous improvements.
Make quick decisions with limited data based on experience and understanding of the subject matter.
Focus on fiber optic and optic components, cabling and interconnect products, technologies and standards. The scope may expand to mechanical and electrical (M&E) and other mission‑critical components later.
Collaborate with the Engineering team to establish a comprehensive Global Design Standards document, Global Installation Best Practice Guidelines, and detailed Product Specifications for Inside Plant Cabling. Develop Quality Assurance manuals, manage amendments and revisions, formulate audit strategies, and define quality and operational metrics to effectively measure performance and success.
Audit and inspect Data Center & Edge sites to ensure standards are being followed, generate punch lists, report and generate remediation plans, action and close all customer complaints and defects, provide recommendations based on product and vendor performance, continuously propose improvements to existing designs and processes.
Conduct training sessions with local Infra Delivery Teams and any other Infra Ops organizations to ensure deployments comply with design standards and best practices.
Respond to technical teams to collect requirements and communicate with internal customers to describe features, technical designs and strategy.
Identify and respond to risks and high‑priority issues rapidly and effectively.
Support New Product Implementation activities that improve infrastructure quality, reduce cost and installation time.
Travel locally (40+%) to review projects and coordinate with onsite personnel and contractors at AWS Data Centers.

A Day in the Life
As a member of this team, you will be charged with visiting our data centers and ensuring that we are following these standards while also collecting lessons learned so we are continually improving. You will also work directly with engineers, managers, and operations teams across the company to develop structured cabling and installation standards based on these observations and lessons learned.
Basic Qualifications

Experience directly related to the design or construction of data centers or critical infrastructure or large‑scale mechanical and electrical plants.
Experience with fiber optic and copper cabling standards, testing equipment & troubleshooting methodologies.
Knowledge of engineering documentation, electrical diagrams and standard operating procedures.
Experience reading and interpreting construction drawings and specifications.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Communications Engineering or a related field.
Experience reviewing appropriate quality plans, test strategies and interacting with QA for testing activities.
Experience working in data centers with an emphasis on building and equipment operation.

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