Data Center Operations Manager - APJC, Network and Cabling Decom (AWS)

Amazon Inc.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Data Center Operations Manager – APJC, Network and Cabling Decom, to lead decommissioning of network racks and cabling across APJC data centers, ensuring safety and zero customer impact.

You will manage a team of decommissioning engineers and technicians, collaborate with networking engineers and TPMs, drive capacity plans, and travel ~20% to sites across the region.

Qualifications

• Experience as a general contractor and in vendor management for construction and project execution.
• Knowledge of data center infrastructure design, operations, or delivery.
• 2+ years in data center, critical environment, or related operations.
• Experience leading large teams and managing managers.
• Experience in root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes.

Responsibilities

• Lead team to safely decommission network racks, gears, and cables across DCs, TC s, and Edge sites with zero customer impact.
• Plan, design, implement, and operate NCD APJC to meet strategic objectives.
• Interact with networking engineers and managers to support scaling activities.
• Define plans to achieve capacity and network requirements via decommissioning.
• Drive cost savings, tooling, and automation for decommissioning activities.
• Partner with leaders to create a lifecycle approach.
• Support recycling and asset disposition to mitigate supply chain challenges.
• Manage and develop Decommissioning engineers and technicians; participate in recruiting and training.
• Travel 20% or more.

Skills

General contractor management

Vendor management

Data center infrastructure design

Data center operations

Team leadership

Managing managers

Root cause analysis

Job description

Data Center Operations Manager - APJC, Network and Cabling Decom

Job ID: 10516511 | Amazon Australia Services, Inc

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Network & Cable Decommissioning Manager to join our team. As a manager in this team, you will work directly with engineers and managers across the company to support and scale as-built designs for data centers in the APJC region. You will also work with existing local and global teams to develop innovative solutions to decommission networks and cabling and manage the implementation of solutions. This is an opportunity to leverage and grow your existing engineering and deployment leadership experience in an innovative and highly collaborative environment where the results of your work will directly impact AWS and its customers.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead team to safely decommission network racks, loose gears, and abandoned fiber cables across all DCs, TCs, and Edge sites located within the region while guaranteeing the health and safety of our technicians and zero impact on customers.
• Drive the planning, design, implementation, organization, and day-to-day operation of NCD APJC in support of strategic objectives.
• Interact and work directly with networking engineers, networking senior TPMs, and managers across several functional areas to support and unblock scaling activities throughout the region.
• Define plans and process to achieve required capacity and network requirements via decommissioning efforts.
• Champion projects for the organization that result in cost savings and/or efficiencies. Drive innovative solutions related to process improvements, tooling, and automation to safely and effectively conduct all global decommissioning activities.
• Partner with peer leaders within the NCD organization to create and perpetuate a true lifecycle approach.
• Support new activities designed to harvest and recycle components to alleviate supply chain challenges and maximize cost avoidance.
• Manage and develop a team of Decommissioning engineers and technicians. Participate in recruiting efforts, continually raise the Bar, and actively train and develop others.
• Travel 20% or more.

About the team

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Basic Qualifications

• Experience as a general contractor and in vendor management (request for proposals, bidding, change orders, quality control, RFI/submittal tracking) associated with construction and project execution
• Knowledge of data center infrastructure design, operations, or delivery
• 2+ years of data center, critical environment, computer hardware repair, infrastructure cabling, network deployment, or data center operations experience, or experience working in a data center environment (racking and stacking gear, cable management, hot/cold aisle containment)
• Experience leading large teams, with demonstrable ability to hire, develop, and manage high-performing technical teams
• Experience in managing managers
• Experience in root cause analysis and error correction, identifying changes to procedures and systems to implement long-term fixes and avoid repeating issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of building codes and regulations including Life Safety, BOCA, NFPA, NEC, and OSHA
• Experience owning the operation of a mission-critical team or product
• Experience with large-scale technical operations or large-scale compute farms
• Experience developing MOPs and SWMS for planned works, or experience in facilities management
• Experience leading change in a multiple site environments
• Experience running the decommissioning lifecycle end to end from asset identification and liquidation records through logical turndown confirmation, physical disconnect, and asset disposition.

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