NW Deployment Build Lead I, DCC Communities

• Bachelor’s Degree and 2 years project management experience.
• 3 years in data center or mission critical environment
• 3 years experience with cabling infrastructure best practices and methodologies
• Willingness to travel up to 50% including some local and international assignments throughout AMER.

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At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.

The Global Network Capacity Delivery organization is looking to hire a highly motivated, best-in-class Program Manager to join our growing Planning, Implementation and Coordination team within AWS Data Center Delivery. The team responsibilities involve scoping and planning interdependent capacity scaling projects across several data center locations. They will review project forecasts and assure physical infrastructure resources are available for their execution.

As a IDND Project Lead you will be tasked with launching cutting edge server technologies and solving diverse Data Center technical impairments which impede launching new network capacity at a local data center level. The ideal candidate will be able to quickly and accurately deploy of infrastructure with a solid understanding of computers, servers, switches and various networking devices from both a hardware and software perspective. You must possess technical aptitude, written and oral communications skills, the ability to effectively deal with people in a wide variety of situations, strong analytical skills, and demonstrated problem solving ability. Have the ability to successfully operate in extreme high pressure situations, handle multiple critical priorities simultaneously, while showing strong initiative and judgment.

Responsibilities include:
Act as the technical point of contact for internal teams.

Perform Process Improvement. Gather data on common failures or waste and work with supporting teams to get them resolved / minimized / eliminated

Perform rigorous hardware verification inspections to insure quality on server racks, networking devices, and associated components.

Launch new network capacity

May be required to assist Deployment Technicians with rack deployments on heavy deployment days or Cabling team

Key job responsibilities

• Ensure adherence to timelines.
• Deliver sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes always with an eye on improvement.
• Work closely with our Install/Deployment Technicians, Supply Chain & Procurement, and Technical Project Manager teams to ensure fast, smooth delivery of on-demand customer capacity.
• Coordination of design, project timeline/ schedule and construction works.

Professional responsibilities that are not unique to this position, but necessary for success at Amazon:

• Stay customer focused
• Exhibit excellent judgment
• Keep high standards - never be satisfied with the status quo
• Dive deep and be in touch with the details of the business or the technology
• Strive for innovation and simplification
• Have passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
• Have/develop strong negotiation communication, project management and reporting skills.
• Be results orientated
• Think big

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

Dublin, OH, USA | Hilliard, OH, USA | New Albany, OH, USA

Bachelor’s Degree and 5 years of project management experience.
Experience in large scale data center network implementations and support
Experience working in virtualized enterprise networking environments
Experience working with IT best practice frameworks (ITIL, LEAN, AGILE)
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Familiarity with common networking terms and fabric based network design
Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity

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