Description

Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. The AWS Cloud infrastructure is built around Regions and Availability Zones (AZs). AWS Regions provide multiple, physically separated and isolated Availability Zones, which are connected with low latency, high throughput, and highly redundant networking. These Availability Zones offer AWS customers an easier and more effective way to design and operate cutting edge AI applications and Machine Learning databases, making them more highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable than traditional single datacenter infrastructures or multi-datacenter infrastructures. How would you like to come be part of the team that builds out that low latency, high throughput, and highly redundant network?

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Manager to lead an extremely skilled multinational team that delivers one of the world’s largest and most complex fiber optic networks. This opportunity sits within our Fiber Deployment team. We develop new and innovative ways to scale and expand our network, while delivering operational excellence to our stakeholders. You will have strong ownership of our network implementation execution and the maintenance of relationships with strategic suppliers to expand and grow Amazon's AWS footprint across North and South America. You will have a history of expanding networks for multiple layers of telecommunications networks, covering outside plant physical construction, Program Management, and experience with fiber delivery. You will have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, program, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to knock down roadblocks for your partner commercial teams.

You will work closely with an active team of industry experts to identify, define and execute optimal solutions to Amazon's ongoing needs to connect its data centers. By applying a unique blend of program management and technology experience, you will work closely with both outside and internal teams to find creative, cost effective, and often innovative solutions to meet Amazon's ongoing growth and expansion needs across North and South America. The ideal candidate will be excited about the incredible opportunity cloud computing represents and will be passionate about building great teams that deliver high quality services. You will be customer centric and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that requires strong technical and program judgment and great communication skills.


Key job responsibilities
· Serve as a key member of the Global Infrastructure Fiber Deployment team helping to drive overall Network Infrastructure expansion and connectivity.
· Provide end to end program and roadmap reporting to senior leadership.
·Work closely with vendors to understand their implementation schedule and deliver the required fiber as required.
·Work with internal business partners to establish correct prioritization.
· Work closely with finance partners, managing budgets.
· Work closely with internal customers to understand product roadmaps and devise programs to meet capacity requirements.
· Ensure the delivered assets meet the QA standards.
· Ensure the inventory is maintained for the region.
· Work closely with the team and customer to drive needed process development and streamlining.
· Drive resolution of program inefficiencies identified by your team.
· Create and manage KPIs to ensure your program portfolio is on track and the correct resources are in place.
· Work with employees on personal development programs ensuring on-growing development is occurring.
· Anticipate bottlenecks, manage risk and escalations, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
· Role will require 15-25% Travel.


A day in the life
Managing a multi-national team of highly motivated technical fiber deployment ICs keeps you on your toes. Working with your team to understand customer intakes and requirements, projected program timelines and need by dates. You’ll take best advice of the teams’ tools and process to ensure that all of the program deliverables are accurately and effectively tracked. You’ll want to spend time with the senior leader’s in your customer and stakeholder organizations in engineering, legal and finance to ensure that you have a birds eye view of new strategic projects that each is working on, and to identify corresponding risks and opportunities in your own program portfolio. You’ll also want to keep time to manage your and your teams’ relationships with vendors across NASA, ensuring that you are abreast of program challenges and critical developments. You’ll will stay abreast of technical product developments and look to take advantage of new technology in the market. You may venture to the field to see the deliverables in person to further your understanding of your program or manage needed senior level escalations.

About the team
The Global Infrastructure Fiber Deployment team is the premier cloud infrastructure delivery organization, drawing on a wide variety of skills and backgrounds from telecommunications, civil engineering, public policy and network planning backgrounds.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Austin Tx
Atlanta GA