Arizona hiring
Data center jobs in Arizona
On October 25, 2026, the careers sites of Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and Oracle listed 68 open data center roles located in Arizona, 11th of the 29 states with ten or more roles. Amazon (AWS) listed 29 of them, followed by Oracle (OCI) with 15, Microsoft with 11, Meta with 11 and Google with 2. By role type: 24 technician, 20 engineer and 13 manager.
By Czarina Tabayoyong, Founder, Critical Path Hiring. Former Amazon, AWS and Google recruiter.
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Counted on each company's own careers site on the 25th of each month.
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Employers
Open roles
Open data center roles located in Arizona on October 25, 2026, by company and by the words in the job title.
| Company | Total | Technician | Engineer | Manager | Construction | Commissioning | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon (AWS) | 29 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Oracle (OCI) | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | |||
| Microsoft | 11 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Meta | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | |||
| 2 | 2 | ||||||
| All five | 68 | 24 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
Each company is counted by its own careers site's definition of a data center role. Microsoft, Google and Meta postings that list several states appear in each of them, and Meta and Oracle show only part of some postings' locations, so their state counts are floors. Role types come from words in the job title. Method and every state on the hyperscaler jobs index.
Projects
Tracked projects
Data center projects in Arizona markets we track, by stage.
15 tracked projects: 2 under construction, 7 approved, 4 stalled or cancelled. Median electrician $29.43 an hour in the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro (BLS, May 2025).
Counting
68 is the number of postings on five careers sites that name a Arizona location, on one day. It is a floor for hyperscaler hiring in the state and says nothing about colocation operators, facilities management firms, general contractors, MEP contractors or commissioning firms, which between them hire more people for the same sites. A posting can be open for months, and one posting can cover several hires.
FAQ
Questions
- How many data center jobs are open in Arizona?
- 68 on October 25, 2026, counting only the careers sites of the five largest hyperscale operators. Colocation operators, facilities management firms, contractors and commissioning firms hire for the same sites and are not in this count, so the real number is higher. Phoenix has 2 data center projects under construction and 7 approved in our tracker, as of November 4, 2026.
- Who is hiring data center technicians in Arizona?
- Amazon (AWS) (13), Oracle (OCI) (6) and Microsoft (5) listed 24 technician-titled roles in Arizona on October 25, 2026.
- Are there data center commissioning jobs in Arizona?
- 5 of the 68 hyperscaler roles in Arizona had commissioning in the title on October 25, 2026, at Amazon (AWS). Commissioning firms and MEP contractors post most commissioning roles, and those are on our commissioning pages.
- What do data center trades pay in Phoenix?
- The median electrician in the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro earned $29.43 an hour in May 2025 (BLS). Posted pay for data center technicians ran $35 to $58 an hour nationally in our October 2026 reading. The Phoenix salary guide has the full wage table.
States
Other states
The 29 states with ten or more open hyperscaler data center roles on October 25, 2026.
- Virginia463
- Texas415
- Oregon231
- California166
- Ohio143
- Georgia130
- Washington127
- Mississippi96
- Indiana85
- Tennessee71
- Colorado68
- Nevada63
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Czarina Tabayoyong
Founder and principal recruiter, Critical Path Hiring. Czarina recruits commissioning, MEP, power and critical facilities people for data center builds. She previously recruited cloud and data center architecture talent at AWS Professional Services, and PMO and project delivery talent for hyperscale data center campuses in Texas and Virginia.