Senior Backbone Network Architect – Americas

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Backbone Network Developer to help design and scale one of the world’s largest networks. You will own strategic plans, collaborate with vendors and internal teams, and drive technical and commercial solutions across North America to support AWS’s global infrastructure.

The role demands deep telecom experience, supplier management, and strong financial modeling skills to optimize wavelengths and dark fiber projects while ensuring high availability and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or 6+ years of IT experience.
• 10+ years telecommunications industry experience in a similar environment.
• Experience managing suppliers/customers or partners.
• Ability to create complex financial models to understand business impacts of network solutions.
• Procurement and negotiations of dark fiber and wavelengths.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key member of the Americas Backbone Network Development team helping to drive overall Network Infrastructure strategy.
• Execute the strategic backbone network plans and provide regular progress updates.
• Identify suppliers and develop technical and commercial solutions that solve for wavelengths, dark fibre and submarine cable capacity.
• Organize, track, and coordinate with vendors and internal teams to deliver new backbone capacity for Amazon.
• Work with network planners and engineers to ensure the most efficient and cost effective network topology is delivered.
• Work closely with finance partners, collaborating on budget creation, business case development, deal inspection, and supplier invoicing.
• Track overall telecoms market trends and developments in terms of vendor technologies, coverage, cost and deal structures.
• Manage the suppliers onboarding, relationship, performance, and service quality.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, manage risk and escalations, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.

Skills

Supplier management

Financial modeling

Telecom market knowledge

Vendor strategy

Network engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or 6+ IT

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Backbone Network Developer to help design and scale one of the world’s largest networks. You will own strategic plans, collaborate with vendors and internal teams, and drive technical and commercial solutions across North America to support AWS’s global infrastructure.

The role demands deep telecom experience, supplier management, and strong financial modeling skills to optimize wavelengths and dark fiber projects while ensuring high availability and