Network Development Manager

**DESCRIPTION**:
This opportunity will have you start at the very beginning of a new venture that plans to be the largest technology investment in Australia’s history. You will be building a new team and be involved in every aspect of developing the network for this new customer and establishing our network operations. A true Day-1 start-up experience, with the benefit of the huge capability and expertise of AWS to support you.

As Network Development Manager, you will be hiring, managing and developing a team of network engineers and be responsible for end-to-end operational health of the network; including capacity management and forecast planning, implementation, automation, process management, change control and ensuring continuous improvement. You will represent networking to our customers, ensuring we meet their needs for innovation, delivery and safe operations.

At Amazon, we ask our technical leaders to be great engineers who can dive deep and get involved in helping their engineers make good decisions and deliver quality solutions. They should maintain a good level of technical understanding and be able to ensure the right engineering expertise exists within the team. In addition, our leaders are thoughtful managers who support and mentor their team and create a friendly working environment of mutual trust and respect.

In this role you will have the opportunity to leverage your technical knowledge with your management and people skills to build and develop a high performing team you are proud of that delivers an exceptional experience to our customers.

Key job responsibilities
- Operation of the network. Manage, track and report against operations and network status ensuring relevant metrics are collected and reported and driving operational excellence
- Performance management and team health. Provide both technical and soft skills mentoring, career and growth management, project management, quality audits, 1:1s, training, day-to-day oversight and coordination of an effective 24x7 operational rotation.
- Ensure that design, management, implementation and deployment operations are sound and executed at scale, safely keeping AWS ahead of customers' demand.
- Manage network issues and availability risks, ensuring they are addressed swiftly and long-term effective solutions are developed to address the route cause and avoid re-occurrence.
- Manage operations and process optimization using relevant data, metrics and dashboarding techniques.
- Continuously seek opportunities for growth and improvement and and define credible proposals and methods for implementation including contributing to AWS standard planning processes.
- Develop, communicate, and maintain project road maps.
- Seek opportunities to work with other engineering teams to improve synergies, understanding of best practices and create more opportunities for your engineers.
- Own defining and delivering goals for the team, communicating objectives, aligning resources, effective management and reporting of progress and representing status to leadership.
- Ensure best practices from AWS are adopted, and compliance with company policies and security requirements.

A day in the life
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.

About the team
Top reasons to join our team:

- Collaborate with and learn from the best networking experts in the world
- Get to develop, build and operate networks at the very largest scale, in an organisation that values its engineers and engineering teams, and promotes innovation and ownership
- Start a career path in one of the largest and most successful tech companies with a near-endless opportunity to explore and grow

Diverse Experiences

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values