Senior Backbone Network Strategy Lead

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

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in the Seattle/Bellevue area seeks a Senior Backbone Network Developer to design, scale, and optimize the Americas backbone.

You will drive commercial and technical vendor strategies, manage supplier relationships, and coordinate with network planners to deliver high-capacity, cost-efficient solutions. You'll work with cross-functional teams, balance business needs with technical constraints, and influence procurement and network architecture decisions to support AWS's

Qualifications

• Candidates should have 10+ years telecommunications industry experience in a similar environment.
• Experience in managing suppliers/customers or partners.
• Ability to create complex financial models to understand business impacts of various network solutions is required.
• 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

Telecommunications experience

Supplier management

Financial modeling

Procurement negotiations

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in the Seattle/Bellevue area seeks a Senior Backbone Network Developer to design, scale, and optimize the Americas backbone.

You will drive commercial and technical vendor strategies, manage supplier relationships, and coordinate with network planners to deliver high-capacity, cost-efficient solutions. You'll work with cross-functional teams, balance business needs with technical constraints, and influence procurement and network architecture decisions to support AWS's