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Amazon Technical Infrastructure Program Manager, DCC Communities in Seattle, Washington
Description
Amazon.com has millions of customers and developers all over the world who rely on our storage, compute, and virtualized services via Amazon Web Services. The Infrastructure organization within AWS is responsible for creating an optimized supply-chain platform that delivers all of Amazon’s storage and compute capacity at the lowest possible cost. The AWS Data Center Planning and Delivery team is responsible for ensuring we have infrastructure available to meet our customer’s needs.
We have an opening for a TIPM who will be responsible for the planning, coordination and execution of upgrades, and optimization of our existing data centers.
The ideal candidate will be an exceptionally strong communicator, both written and verbally, and possess experience in tactical project management of highly technical initiatives, as well as strategic program management.
Candidate must be comfortable supporting project delivery teams, networking, infrastructure and regional business development teams. Ability to work cross-functional matrix-based teams, establish trust with a variety of stakeholders across multiple time zones, and develop workflows that eliminate non-value-add activity, remove blockers, and find creative ways to optimize our existing data centers.
Key job responsibilities
Manage the dependencies and the interfaces between projects and negotiate the trade-offs needed.
Create, execute and facilitate site level execution plans
Provide program progress reporting on a regular basis to senior leadership. Articulating root-cause analysis, and linking to specific improvement areas.
Summarize escalation support and critical leadership decisions.
Plan data center de-scaling projects in order to optimize AWS’s infrastructure regions from availability, cost, and risk perspectives.
Manage multiple competing projects/programs simultaneously.
Run meetings, create and maintain timelines, and keep large, diverse groups informed of progress and obstacles.
Develop and implement scalable, data-driven process improvement/automated solutions.
Build program mechanisms that monitor and escalate against the health of infrastructure asset migration and retirement plans needed for critical infrastructure projects.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Herndon, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of technical infrastructure management experience
Knowledge of best practices and emerging technologies, related to infrastructure (i.e. network, data center, hardware, software)
Experience with varying scenarios of infrastructure builds
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in management of complex technology infrastructure projects, network design, or business development.
Use of SQL and data visualization tools
Experience managing global programs across cross functional organizations
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $87,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $197,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.