AMER West Manager, Network and Cabling Decom

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 & Cable Decommissioning Manager to join our team. As a manager in this team, you will work directly with engineers and managers across the company to support and scale as-built designs for data centers in the AMER West region. You will also work with existing local and global teams to develop innovative solutions to manage network and cabling lifecycles.

This is an opportunity to leverage and grow your existing management and deployment leadership experience in an innovative and highly collaborative environment where the results of your work will directly impact AWS and its customers.

Key job responsibilities
• Lead team to safely decommission network racks and abandoned fiber cables across all DCs, TCs, and Edge sites located within the region.
• Drive the planning, design, implementation, organization, and day-to-day operation of NCD AMER WEST in support of strategic objectives.
• Interact and work directly with networking engineers, networking senior TPMs, and managers across several functional areas and ensure solutions/products goals are met and exceeded.
• Engage with customers to gather feedback and iterate on solutions/products features.
• Stay updated with the latest AWS services and features, ensuring our solutions leverage the best of what AWS has to offer.
• Ensure timely delivery.
• Champion projects for the organization that result in cost savings and/or efficiencies. Drive innovative solutions related to process improvements, tooling, and automation to safely and effectively conduct all global decommissioning activities.
• Partner with peer leaders within the NCD organization to create and perpetuate a true lifecycle approach.
• Participate in recruiting efforts, continually raise the Bar, and actively train and develop others.
• Travel 20% or more

A day in the life
This position is responsible to lead a team of technicians that safely removes unused network assets out of our data centers. The decommissioning of End of Life network assets brings power and positions back to the business. The manager ensures safety, security, availability, and compliance requirements are met during the decommissioning activities. The individual works closely with global peers, capacity planners, and network engineering to effectively prioritize work. The individual also drives process and tooling improvements that can be deployed globally.

About the team
Network Rack Decom and Cable Decom (NCD) is the global team that decommissions all equipment and cabling that our network infrastructure has outgrown. The Network and Cable Decommissioning team’s primary focus is to reclaim capacity for our customers by safely removing decommissioned legacy network equipment and old cabling infrastructure, thus enabling a life cycle approach for the physical layer of our data center network, which will help utilize our existing DC space to its fullest potential.

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
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• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of technical team and program management experience.
• Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy.
• Experience managing technical teams and solutions.• 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.
• Experience in building and driving adoption of strategies and solutions.
• Working knowledge of networking layers within data centers.


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