Network Development Manager, ADC Networking International
Amazon.com
Amazon's network is a key differentiator for Amazon Cloud Computing and Web Services (AWS), enabling the global operation of thousands of applications across hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide. The AWS Networking team develops and operates the network platform for all of Amazon including e-commerce products and cloud computing solutions. This platform is industry-leading for its efficiency, throughput and reliability, and it is critical to the success of hundreds of thousands of AWS customers. We are looking for a Network Development Manager to join this team in our Amazon Dedicated Cloud space, serving larges customers with unique requirements.
As Network Development Manager, you will be hiring, managing and developing a team of network engineers and be responsible for end-to-end operational health of the network; including capacity management and forecast planning, implementation, automation, process management, change control and ensuring continuous improvement. You will represent networking to our customers and to the rest of the Amazon Dedicated Cloud team supporting the customer, ensuring we meet their needs for innovation, delivery and safe operations.
At Amazon, we ask our technical leaders to be great engineers who can dive deep and get involved in helping their engineers make good decisions and deliver quality solutions. They should maintain a good level of technical understanding and be able to ensure the right engineering expertise exists within the team. In addition, our leaders are thoughtful managers who support and mentor their team and create a friendly working environment of mutual trust and respect.
The ideal candidate will have an established background in managing similar teams, with a proven track record in driving operations and continuous improvement of large scale networks for mission critical workloads. You will have a passion for operational excellence and want to identify areas of improvement in our existing frameworks, tools, processes and documentation, striving to make them better. You will have a deep understanding of how to safely implement change, measure and analyse performance, and respond to events to ensure the network always operates as intended.
In this role you will have the opportunity to leverage your technical knowledge with your management and people skills to build and develop a high performing team you are proud of that delivers an exceptional experience to our customers.
Responsibilities include:
* Operation of the network. Manage, track and report against operations and network status ensuring relevant metrics are collected and reported and driving operational excellence
* Recruiting and hiring. Identify the hiring needs of the team and work with Amazon recruiting to evaluate candidates, participate in phone screens and interviews, and then ensure the new hires onboarding and training.
* Performance management and team health. Provide both technical and soft skills mentoring, career and growth management, project management, quality audits, 1:1s, training, day-to-day oversight and coordination of an effective 24x7 operational rotation.
* Ensure that design, management, implementation and deployment operations are sound and executed at scale, safely keeping AWS ahead of customers' demand.
* Manage network issues and availability risks, ensuring they are addressed swiftly and long-term effective solutions are developed to address the route cause and avoid re-occurrence.
* Manage operations and process optimization using relevant data, metrics and dashboarding techniques.
* Continuously seek opportunities for growth and improvement and and define credible proposals and methods for implementation including contributing to AWS standard planning processes.
* Develop, communicate, and maintain project road maps.
* Seek opportunities to work with other engineering teams to improve synergies, understanding of best practices and create more opportunities for your engineers.
* Own defining and delivering goals for the team, communicating objectives, aligning resources, effective management and reporting of progress and representing status to leadership.
* Represent networking to the customer and Amazon Dedicated Cloud service and infrastructure teams, to ensure that network dependencies and deliverables are identified and delivered as needed.
* Ensure best practices from AWS are adopted, and compliance with company policies and security requirements.
About The Team
Top Reasons to join our team:
* Collaborate with and learn from the best networking experts in the world
* Get to develop, build and operate networks at the very largest scale, in an organisation that values its engineers and engineering teams, and promotes innovation and ownership
* Be part of a unique team that’s dedicated to history-making programmes
* Start a career path in one of the largest and most successful tech companies with a near-endless opportunity to explore and grow
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
As Network Development Manager, you will be hiring, managing and developing a team of network engineers and be responsible for end-to-end operational health of the network; including capacity management and forecast planning, implementation, automation, process management, change control and ensuring continuous improvement. You will represent networking to our customers and to the rest of the Amazon Dedicated Cloud team supporting the customer, ensuring we meet their needs for innovation, delivery and safe operations.
At Amazon, we ask our technical leaders to be great engineers who can dive deep and get involved in helping their engineers make good decisions and deliver quality solutions. They should maintain a good level of technical understanding and be able to ensure the right engineering expertise exists within the team. In addition, our leaders are thoughtful managers who support and mentor their team and create a friendly working environment of mutual trust and respect.
The ideal candidate will have an established background in managing similar teams, with a proven track record in driving operations and continuous improvement of large scale networks for mission critical workloads. You will have a passion for operational excellence and want to identify areas of improvement in our existing frameworks, tools, processes and documentation, striving to make them better. You will have a deep understanding of how to safely implement change, measure and analyse performance, and respond to events to ensure the network always operates as intended.
In this role you will have the opportunity to leverage your technical knowledge with your management and people skills to build and develop a high performing team you are proud of that delivers an exceptional experience to our customers.
Responsibilities include:
* Operation of the network. Manage, track and report against operations and network status ensuring relevant metrics are collected and reported and driving operational excellence
* Recruiting and hiring. Identify the hiring needs of the team and work with Amazon recruiting to evaluate candidates, participate in phone screens and interviews, and then ensure the new hires onboarding and training.
* Performance management and team health. Provide both technical and soft skills mentoring, career and growth management, project management, quality audits, 1:1s, training, day-to-day oversight and coordination of an effective 24x7 operational rotation.
* Ensure that design, management, implementation and deployment operations are sound and executed at scale, safely keeping AWS ahead of customers' demand.
* Manage network issues and availability risks, ensuring they are addressed swiftly and long-term effective solutions are developed to address the route cause and avoid re-occurrence.
* Manage operations and process optimization using relevant data, metrics and dashboarding techniques.
* Continuously seek opportunities for growth and improvement and and define credible proposals and methods for implementation including contributing to AWS standard planning processes.
* Develop, communicate, and maintain project road maps.
* Seek opportunities to work with other engineering teams to improve synergies, understanding of best practices and create more opportunities for your engineers.
* Own defining and delivering goals for the team, communicating objectives, aligning resources, effective management and reporting of progress and representing status to leadership.
* Represent networking to the customer and Amazon Dedicated Cloud service and infrastructure teams, to ensure that network dependencies and deliverables are identified and delivered as needed.
* Ensure best practices from AWS are adopted, and compliance with company policies and security requirements.
About The Team
Top Reasons to join our team:
* Collaborate with and learn from the best networking experts in the world
* Get to develop, build and operate networks at the very largest scale, in an organisation that values its engineers and engineering teams, and promotes innovation and ownership
* Be part of a unique team that’s dedicated to history-making programmes
* Start a career path in one of the largest and most successful tech companies with a near-endless opportunity to explore and grow
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
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