Job Description

DESCRIPTION

As a Backbone Network Planner, you are responsible for managing the planning and development of Amazon\'s physical network infrastructure. You will be experienced in planning and designing physical network infrastructure (dark fiber, colocation and ISP cabling), optical transport technologies, backbone network engineering design principles, and you will have good market knowledge of network infrastructure providers in your region. This role requires extensive collaboration, driving strategic planning initiatives, designing high-availability solutions at scale, and delivering precise documentation. You will actively drive backbone infrastructure solutions within your designated region, working with Infra TechBDs, suppliers, technology partners, as well as Amazon networking teams to meet our customers\' demands.

Key job responsibilities
- Act as the Europe Middle East Africa India (EMEAI) regional SME (Subject Matter Expert) on topology change management and infrastructure demand planning.
- Collaboratively develop network infrastructure execution plans in partnership with Business Developers that involve leased wavelengths, dark fibre and submarine cable capacity/builds.
- Develop strategic regional backbone network plans for approval by internal customers and stakeholders, with a focus on short, medium and long term needs
- Work with network engineering to ensure that the highest degree of design consistency, network efficiency, cost optimization, and long term scalability of the backbone network is delivered. Compile topology information and performance metrics and make recommendations for improvements based on their findings.
- Manage network change (migrations) as our network evolves to support increased traffic volumes and geographic expansion.
- Translate backbone and edge forecasts into actionable network infrastructure projects.
- Own your region\'s network availability and performance and remediation plans to address non-compliance.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• A Bachelor\'s Degree in an IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Candidates should have a minimum of 5-years telecommunications industry experience in a similar environment.
• Candidates must have direct technical experience working in a company owning or operating long haul dark fiber networks and DWDM systems.
• Candidates should be able to demonstrate where they have influenced the planning, design, development, contracting, implementation, and operation of long haul backbone networks.
• Extensive knowledge of IP peering ecosystems, fiber optic networks, submarine cables and the interconnection of these networks in order to obtain the highest availability for delivering online services globally.
• Willing to travel.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working at a large network operator, OTT or Internet Service Provider.
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate customer requirements and be organized
• In-depth knowledge of the latest optical communications developments.
• In-depth knowledge of and experience with major internet routing protocols; specifically BGP, OSPF, MPLS, RSVP and ISIS.

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