Program Manager, DC Communities

DESCRIPTION

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 Brick 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.

The ‘Planning’ Program Manager will work closely with infrastructure supply chain & procurement and technical program managers to plan and deliver customer capacity to the local data center installation & deployment technicians to facilitate smooth capacity execution.

The ideal candidate will possess a technology background that enables them to understand the complexities of the sophisticated network architecture of Amazon data centers. To be a qualified candidate you must be highly autonomous, very detail oriented, possesses strong written and verbal communication skills and have experience in managing network deployment projects. They will be competent in networking principles, data center operations, cable infrastructure and fiber solutions.

This position will provide the individual with high levels of autonomous work with minimal supervision to drive the stability and sustainability of our next-generation networks and to assist in the development of innovative ways to automate and scale our network as we expand.

The desire and ability to work in a fast paced, ambiguous, collaborative environment is essential for success.

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.
• Knowledge of network cabling and optic types.
• Experience with cabling infrastructure best practices and methodologies.
• Familiarity with common networking terms.
• Excellent judgement and analytical skills, ability to prioritize tasks based on fluctuating needs.
• Strong prioritization and time management ability.
• Coordination of design, project timeline/ schedule and construction works.
• Experience in core project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management. Must be well organized and able to work effectively under time pressure.

• Strong customer focus
• Exhibit excellent judgment
• Relentlessly high standards - never satisfied with the status quo
• Able to dive deep and is never out of 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
• Strong negotiation communication, project management and reporting skills.
• Strong results orientation

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 years data center networking experience working with optics and bulk fiber.
• 3 years experience working with large scaling infrastructure deployments.
• 3 years experience working with 3rd party vendors on large projects.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 years data center networking experience working with optics, bulk fiber AND a firm understanding of power and cooling.
• 5 years experience working with large scaling infrastructure deployments.
• 3 years of experience working new data center builds.
• Demonstrates the ability to successfully context switch between several high priority efforts.