Sr Mgr, NW Deployment Planning, Global Network Delivery

Amazon • Herndon, VA

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About The Position

The Senior Manager, Network Deployment Planning leads the strategic planning and
coordination of network infrastructure deployment across AWS data centers. This
role is accountable for translating network capacity requirements into
executable deployment plans, managing the end-to-end planning lifecycle for
cabling installation, network scaling projects, and brick deployments across
multiple clusters. The Senior Manager establishes planning frameworks and
processes that enable deployment teams to execute efficiently while maintaining
alignment with broader infrastructure delivery timelines. This position requires
technical knowledge of data center network architecture and the ability to drive
cross-functional collaboration across deployment, vendor management, sourcing,
and operations teams.

The role manages the portfolio of network deployment projects across multiple
clusters and regions, maintaining visibility into project status, timelines, and
resource allocation. The Senior Manager monitors key metrics such as plan
accuracy, on-time delivery rates, and resource utilization to identify trends
and potential risks early, and facilitates planning reviews to resolve conflicts
between competing priorities. The role establishes mechanisms for tracking plan
accuracy and identifying gaps between planned and actual execution, implementing
improvements to planning processes. The Senior Manager establishes reporting
mechanisms that provide stakeholders with clear visibility into portfolio
health, proactively identifies constraints that could impact delivery, and
proposes solutions to address gaps or optimize performance across the project
portfolio.

The Senior Manager works across teams to align cabling plans along the network
deployment lifecycle. Daily activities include monitoring project status across
the portfolio, identifying projects at risk of missing target dates, and working
with stakeholders to resolve blockers or adjust plans. The role involves regular
touchpoints with deployment and operations leadership to review project
portfolios and align on needs to support successful delivery, planning teams to
understand demand forecasts, vendor management to review resourcing alignment,
and sourcing to drive material availability. This role addresses the challenge
of maintaining portfolio visibility across multiple clusters and regions while
ensuring individual project plans meet near-term capacity needs.

Requirements

• 10+ years of program management, tech program management, or related experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing multiple projects, prioritizing, planning, and managing time
• Experience in capacity planning, operations planning, business analysis or similar

Responsibilities

• managing the end-to-end planning lifecycle for cabling installation, network scaling projects, and brick deployments across multiple clusters
• establishing planning frameworks and processes that enable deployment teams to execute efficiently while maintaining alignment with broader infrastructure delivery timelines
• managing the portfolio of network deployment projects across multiple clusters and regions, maintaining visibility into project status, timelines, and resource allocation
• monitoring key metrics such as plan accuracy, on-time delivery rates, and resource utilization to identify trends and potential risks early
• facilitating planning reviews to resolve conflicts between competing priorities
• establishing mechanisms for tracking plan accuracy and identifying gaps between planned and actual execution, implementing improvements to planning processes
• establishing reporting mechanisms that provide stakeholders with clear visibility into portfolio health
• proactively identifying constraints that could impact delivery, and proposes solutions to address gaps or optimize performance across the project portfolio
• aligning cabling plans along the network deployment lifecycle
• monitoring project status across the portfolio, identifying projects at risk of missing target dates, and working with stakeholders to resolve blockers or adjust plans
• reviewing project portfolios and align on needs to support successful delivery, planning teams to understand demand forecasts, vendor management to review resourcing alignment, and sourcing to drive material availability

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed