AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. 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.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Network Decommissioning Manager to join our rapidly growing network and Cable Decommissioning team (NCD). As a manager in this team, you will work directly with engineers and managers across the company to support and scale removal of Networking gear from data centers in the Northern Virginia region. You will also work with existing local and global teams to develop innovative solutions to decommission networks and manage the implementation of solutions. This is an opportunity to leverage and grow your existing engineering and leadership experience in an innovative and highly collaborative environment where the results of your work will directly impact AWS and its customers.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and develop a team of Network Decommissioning techs
- Ensure non-impactful and timely removal of existing network infrastructure.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to define plans and process to achieve required capacity and network requirements via decommissioning efforts.
- Partner with peer leaders within the NCD organization to create and perpetuate a true lifecyle approach to standardizing and maintaining internal cabling throughout the data center environments.
- Identify and respond to risks and high-priority issues; leading high-profile/visibility projects, as required, to enable new capacity and services.
- Support new automation introduction activities that, reduce cost and decommissioning time; obsessing over reducing risk and legacy constraints inherent in existing facilities.
- Travel 20% or more to review projects and coordinate with onsite personnel and contractors at AWS data centers
A day in the life
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- 5+ years of data center engineering management experience
- 5+ years of Project Management experience
- Experience mentoring individual contributors
- Proven track record of creating and leading high-performance delivery or infrastructure decommissioning teams; specifically focused within data center or other critical spaces.
- Ability to perform complex business case analysis to justify technical decisions and present the justification to management in a high level review.
- Experience carrying new design concepts from exploration to deployment/construction.
- Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe features, technical designs, and strategy.
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role .
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
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