Senior Connectivity Engineer, Network Product Development

Overview

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support data centers and the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on challenging problems and are looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to deliver high safety and security standards while providing substantial capacity at a low cost for our customers. You’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

• Manage vendors and manufacturers to assess new fiber optic and passive infrastructure designs, establish fiber testing standards, and develop scalable implementation strategies for network-wide deployment.
• Automate fiber test plans and qualify fiber connectivity designs.
• Design and specify structured cabling systems (fiber, copper, cable trays/duct banks) for network layers at hyperscale data centers.
• Develop standards, reference designs, and installation guidelines for physical network/cabling deployments and structured cabling systems.
• Focus on ambiguous problem areas in existing or new network architecture and systems development initiatives, proposing and delivering projects with significant business and/or customer impact.
• Drive discussions with customers and peers, and be a key influencer in team strategy.
• Partner with internal network engineering and site operations teams to align physical design with logical network architecture.
• Manage fiber vendors and contractors; perform quality control and commissioning of fiber bundles and structured cabling systems.
• Perform mitigation analysis and site inspections to validate as-built conditions, ensuring design and operational compliance.
• Monitor module quality in the fleet and build mechanisms to remediate large-scale events and improve health of network links.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues during build, commissioning, and handover phases to ensure network readiness.
• Maintain documentation, drawings, and asset records for physical network components across global sites.
• Provide feedback to design and operations teams to drive continuous improvement of physical network standards.

On a daily basis, you will understand the growing AWS network and our internal customers’ requirements for interconnect solutions, and work to devise hardware solutions by influencing the broader industry or developing software tools with partner teams to maintain a highly available network for AWS customers. You will design and implement processes and mechanisms that help the team deliver business impact in a systemic way while raising the bar on operational excellence.

You will bridge design, construction, and operations, ensuring that every layer of physical networking—from fiber trunks to copper patching—meets high standards of performance, reliability, and scalability.

Within AWS Networking, the Network Product Development (NPD) organization is responsible for designing hardware, building software, and owning interconnects for the routers that power the global AWS network. We manage the fleet of routers in a network that grows by 70% annually, tracking key metrics to minimize customer impact due to device-related issues and provide a transparent customer experience.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and continue to innovate, powering businesses from startups to Global 500 companies.

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