NW Deployment Planner II, GND - Planning, Implementation, Coordination (PIC) Team
About The Position
AWS Infrastructure Services is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, ensuring the cloud runs smoothly. This involves supporting all AWS data centers and the associated equipment. The team is looking for talented individuals to help manage complex challenges within the supply chain. The role involves joining a diverse team of engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, and operations managers. Collaboration across AWS is key to maintaining high standards of safety and security, providing immense capacity at the lowest cost, and fostering an inclusive culture that supports bold ideas from conception to completion. Amazon's mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth, seeking exceptionally talented, bright, and driven individuals to help build the future of online commerce. The Global Network Delivery organization is seeking a highly motivated Network Deployment Planner to join the Planning and Implementation team within AWS Data Center Delivery. This team focuses on scoping and planning interdependent capacity scaling projects and new network capacity deployments across multiple data center locations, ensuring physical infrastructure resources are available for project execution. The Network Deployment Planner will collaborate with infrastructure supply chain & procurement, network engineering, and technical program managers to plan and deliver customer capacity to local data center installation & deployment technicians for smooth execution. The ideal candidate will have a technology background to understand the complexities of Amazon's data center network architecture, be highly autonomous, detail-oriented, possess strong communication skills, and have experience managing network deployment projects. Competence in networking principles, data center operations, cable infrastructure, and fiber solutions is required. This position offers a high degree of autonomy with minimal supervision, focusing on driving the stability and sustainability of next-generation networks and developing innovative automation and scaling solutions. Success requires the desire and ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and collaborative environment.
Requirements
- Experience in project management
- 1+ years of relevant discipline work experience
- Experience with network hardware: copper and optical fiber cabling, switches, routers
Nice To Haves
- 2+ years of data center, critical environment, computer hardware repair, infrastructure cabling, network deployment, or data center operations experience
- Experience dealing effectively with customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure
- Experience with cabling infrastructure best practices and methodologies
- Experience managing work and priorities through a ticketing system
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, Network Engineers 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 milestones.
- 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.
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
