Job Description

15+ years of relevant experience in telecommunications and network services industry, especially in the field of fiber technologies, and data centers across APAC.

• 10+ years managing a team of metro fiber technologists, leading complex negotiations of commercial contracts, developing regional strategies, program/product management experience in an infrastructure environment,
• Planning, design and, construction of new telecoms fibre networks in multiple countries across APAC \xe2\x80\x93 at the minimum Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea.
• Experience with understanding public policies and regulatory framework of telecommunication services in multiple countries across APAC
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations while prioritizing competing demands to deliver on time for our customers.
• Experience interacting with senior executives and other management within a company and working across commercial, technical, domestic, and international arms of an organization.
• Experience interacting with senior executives and other management within a company and working across commercial, technical, domestic, and international arms of an organization.

The AWS Metro Fiber Network Planning and Acquisition (MFNPA) team manages the expansion and investment strategy for AWS network infrastructure. The team is responsible for developing regional location strategy, builds and procures low latency, high throughput, and highly redundant network, manages the growth and maintenance of vendor partnerships, and commercial and legal negotiations.

As a Senior Manager \xe2\x80\x93 APAC Regional Lead of Metro Fiber Network Planning and Acquisition, you will help shape the future of AWS network infrastructure, while delivering operational excellence to our stakeholders, managing a portfolio that spans across Asia Pacific (APAC). This is a senior Infrastructure role within the region, and highly skilled in the development and acquisition of network services that drives Amazon\xe2\x80\x99s internal infrastructure as well as connecting Amazon to the outside world. The individual will be well versed with commercial, legal, technical and vendor strategies to achieve efficiency and scalability. The individual will drive cross functional collaborations with multiple disciplines within Amazon, including other networking teams (IP Interconnect, Backbone, Sub-sea, Optical, Engineering), data center supply solutions, finance, legal, technical project managers, DC operations teams, and AWS services product teams \xe2\x80\x93 to influence and align all stakeholders and partners, to achieve consistency in processes and standards. It is vital that the individual understands the concepts of AWS networking, legal, and data center technologies, and are able to clearly articulate complex technical transactions to executive leadership across multiple organizations (tech and non-tech). The individual will in turn provide advisory support to the wider network organization and leads for each country/region to ensure they are delivering to the same consistent standards.

A successful candidate will be an exceptional communicator with both vendors and internal customers, including senior leaders within the organization and vendors. Have a strong ability to overcome obstacles to deliver the right results, possess a strong sense of ownership, and be highly data driven with a passion for continuous improvement. You will have the opportunity to invent and simplify, and collaborate with partner teams to innovate, design and implement tools that will enable the team to scale effectively, and deliver meaningful impacts to the business. Some business travel* will be required.

• Note: Business Travel will not be required until COVID-19 related travel restrictions have been lifted in accordance to relevant authorities\xe2\x80\x99 guidance.

Key job responsibilities

• Serve as a key member of the APAC Network Development team, helping to drive overall Network Infrastructure strategy. You are an expert in your domain, and have deep technical understanding of respective space in order to deconstruct problems, evaluate interactions between disciplines/sub-systems, and define quantitative measures for performance across multiple disciplines. You are considered an expert in your relevant industry/market segment (e.g. telecom infrastructure) and can lead technical negotiations, commercial agreements and business development for supporting technical infrastructure delivery across multiple geographies.
• You are flexible, adapting your approach to meet the needs of your customer, business stakeholders, and any engineering teams involved. You identify, prioritize, and tackle significantly hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You assess risk, drive clarity, and foster shared understanding about proposed solutions. You create the correct sense of urgency for delivery. You proactively drive business and senior leader reviews, aligning teams toward coherent strategies and effective business and engineering approaches. You identify gaps/opportunities in or between regions, processes, and organizations (e.g., contracting, delivery, operating etc.). You may drive organization changes to enable teams to work independently and/or achieve a significant efficiency improvement.
• You effectively partner with all levels of leadership. You are adept at building consensus. You are able to represent, verbally and in writing, complex decisions, tough trade-offs, and potential solutions clearly to leaders to help them understand the decisions they have to make and what options they have. You influence organization priorities, system owners, business, and technology direction. You manage cross-functional communication to ensure all stakeholders are informed and needs aligned. You show excellent judgment in driving executive-level escalations. You deliver solutions that meet Amazon high standards for customer satisfaction, efficiency, stability, extensibility, simplicity, and operational excellence.
• You amplify your impact by educating the wider AWS Infrastructure community on business development best practices. You participate, sharing knowledge and collaborating with other Infrastructure Technical Business Developers, specifically attending and/or presenting at internal conferences and AWS Infrastructure community events. You help managers guide the career growth of their team members by mentoring, performing promotion assessments, and participating in talent reviews.
• An exceptional candidate will have a good understanding of the telecommunication and network services ecosystem in APAC - including international cable systems in/out of country, carrier hotels, IP Peering/Transit, internet exchange, metro fiber technologies, and also be comfortable discussing data center technologies (interpret electrical and mechanical SLDs, redundancy designs, cooling methodologies).

A day in the life
This person leads the network acquisitions for he metro regions across APAC. The AWS Metro Fiber Network Planning and Acquisition (MFNPA) team manages the expansion and investment strategy for AWS network infrastructure. The team is responsible for developing regional location strategy, builds and procures low latency, high throughput, and highly redundant network, manages the growth and maintenance of vendor partnerships, and commercial and legal negotiations.

Bachelor\'s Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.