Senior Backbone Network Strategist, Americas — Scale & Optimize

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 155,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services is seeking a highly skilled Senior Backbone Network Developer to help design and scale one of the world’s largest networks. You will lead commercial and technical vendor strategy within North America and collaborate with external suppliers, technology partners, and AWS service teams to meet growing demand.

You will work with network planners and engineers to ensure efficient topology, manage risk, and coordinate budgets and invoicing while driving cost-effective, scalable

Qualifications

• Experience managing suppliers, customers or partners.
• Ability to build complex financial models to assess network solutions.
• Experience with procurement of dark fiber and wavelengths.

Responsibilities

• Serve on the Americas Backbone Network Development team to drive network infrastructure strategy.
• Execute strategic backbone network plans and provide regular progress updates.
• Identify suppliers and develop technical and commercial solutions for wavelengths, dark fiber, and submarine cable capacity.
• Coordinate with vendors and internal teams to deliver new backbone capacity for Amazon.
• Work with planners and engineers to deliver efficient, cost-effective topology.
• Collaborate with finance partners on budget, business cases, deals and invoicing.
• Track telecom market trends and vendor technologies, costs and deals structures.
• Manage supplier onboarding, relationships, performance and service quality.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, manage risk and balance business needs with technical constraints.

Skills

Supplier management

Financial modeling

Procurement

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

10+ years telecommunications industry experience

Job description

Amazon Web Services is seeking a highly skilled Senior Backbone Network Developer to help design and scale one of the world’s largest networks. You will lead commercial and technical vendor strategy within North America and collaborate with external suppliers, technology partners, and AWS service teams to meet growing demand.

You will work with network planners and engineers to ensure efficient topology, manage risk, and coordinate budgets and invoicing while driving cost-effective, scalable