Senior Connectivity Engineer, Network Product Development

Description

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're 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 help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And 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, propose and deliver projects that have a significant business and/or customer impact
• Drive discussions with customers and peers, and being 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 compliance with design and operational requirements
• Monitor module quality in the fleet and build mechanism to remediate large scale events and improve health of our 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 an everyday basis as an engineer or scientist in our team, you have the unique opportunity to understand the growing AWS network and our internal customers' requirement on interconnect solutions, and work backwards to devise hardware solutions by influencing the broad industry and/or to develop software tools with partner teams to maintain a highly available network that delights AWS customers.

You design and implement processes and mechanisms that both help the team to deliver business impact to the organization in a systemic…