Optical Planning Network Development Engineer, Capacity Engineering

Amazon Web Services is looking for an Optical Planning Engineer to support and deploy one of the worlds largest and most complex telecommunication networks. Our goal is to become The Infrastructure Platform to the world and customers demand the highest quality and reliability for their services. As we expand at a tremendous rate it is our responsibility to maintain that quality and reliability. We look for innovative ways to automate and scale our network as we expand while driving complex issues to resolution.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global other words were 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 were looking for talented people who want to help.

As an Optical Planning Engineer working within AWS Infrastructure you will:

- Design and plan our global optical transport networks including DWDM and dark fiber infrastructure
- Develop capacity plans to scale optical network designs ahead of customer demand
- Create and maintain planning tools processes and frameworks that support optical network growth and operations
- Collaborate closely with Network Engineering Capacity and Deployment teams to translate demand forecasts into actionable build plans
- Evaluate alternative optical technologies and equipment driving technical assessments and commercial tender processes
- Ensure all optical network designs adhere to defined architecture standards and long-term capacity strategies
- Produce detailed optical design packages feasibility studies and span analysis reports for new and existing sites
- Drive planning excellence initiatives to improve accuracy lead time and quality across the optical delivery pipeline
- Identify and resolve complex planning challenges developing innovative solutions to optimize network performance and cost

The ideal candidate is highly autonomous possesses strong written and verbal communication skills strong project management and analytical skills and has a proven track record of delivering optical network planning at scale. The desire and ability to work in a fast-paced collaborative environment is essential.

This is a high-visibility role at the intersection of network strategy and infrastructure delivery with direct impact on one of the worlds largest cloud networks.

Key job responsibilities
Network Development Engineers perform high quality network and/or systems operations deployments scaling technology refresh sustaining engineering best practices application optimization internal/external customer interactions and produce appropriate technical documentation.

Your core job responsibility is to design network designs services and deployment procedures that solve for many requirements.
Together you and your leadership team will decide on the projects that best support your teams mission.
You and your team will design ahead of customer or technology needs always predicting and solving for problems that have not yet occurred. This takes the form of creating and defending High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design (LLD) documents working with internal stakeholders to influence technology roadmaps constructing and testing your solutions and providing support to the teams that will deploy and operate these designs.
You will create and automate deployment processes that increases quality and velocity.
You will Work closely with our internal customers on designs/solutions; bringing those designs/solutions from concept to production


A day in the life
Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll 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 youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

About the team
About the team

Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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- Bachelors degree in science technology engineering math business or equivalent
- Experience working in large-scale networking environments
- Knowledge of IP networking fundamentals and extensive experience in the application of IP protocols

- Knowledge of network analysis fundamentals and robust troubleshooting
- Experience with programming/scripting (Batch VB PowerShell Java C# Chef Perl Ruby and/or PHP) or experience in Ubuntu/Solaris and experience that includes strong analytical skills attention to detail and effective communication abilities

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