Infra Delivery Manager II, DC Operations, DCC Communities
Amazon Data Services, Inc.
Canton, Mississippi, USA
Canton, Mississippi, USA
- IT
- Full-time
- infrastructure delivery manager
- data center operations
- network equipment installation
The Infra Delivery Manager II leads the delivery and installation of network equipment and cabling infrastructure across AWS data centers, managing both people and projects to ensure timely, high-quality operational outcomes. This role involves coordinating team resources, driving process improvements and automation, and maintaining compliance with service-level agreements and safety standards. Extensive collaboration and travel are required to support continuous network availability and efficiency at a global scale.
The Infrastructure Delivery team is looking for a Manager to join our expanding Infrastructure Operations team. The Infrastructure Delivery Manager manages the implementation and delivery of inbound capacity and equipment.
If you would like to use people skills and technical knowledge and apply them to delivering on-time, defect-free service, we’d like to meet you. Your work will help to create sustainable processes and standards; and drive automation opportunities to reduce delivery cycle times and to improve quality without impacting network availability.
Travel: Extensive travel will be required in 2024, but will be limited in 2025 and beyond.
Key job responsibilities
The Infra Delivery Manager will:
- Prioritize and assign tasks to data center technicians and operators, project management, coaching and creating documentation.
- Manage inbound capacity from receiving through deployment stages
- Manage the installation network and cabling infrastructure in a data center environment
- Guide, train and educate staff on the best practices related to all service owner issues
- Manage tasks and deliverables across small to large-size projects
- Recommend, document, and oversee policies and procedures to meet industry best practices and to meet required SLAs
- Provide weekly report to the data center manager
- Coordinate team resources to support project and delivery needs, to include emergency projects, change management and maintenance window support, and potential off-hours and on-call needs.
- Recruit and train data technicians to ensure appropriate staffing levels
- Host weekly staff meetings
- Drive compliance to Amazon performance management requirements
A day in the life
The Infra Delivery Manager
- Manage the daily operations for installing and delivering network equipment and related infrastructures; driving low voltage structured cabling across the Amazon data center platform
- Oversee their development and growth of their team
- Tracking budgets, providing strategic direction and proposing technical solutions
- Solve problems at their root and step back to understand the broader context
- Installing and delivering our network equipment and related infrastructures to improve effectiveness through process innovation
About the team
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.
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.
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
- Proven ability in driving and managing metrics/KPI's with a high degree of organization and detail-orientation
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft Suite ( MS Words, Excel, Project Visio and Power point) and Auto CAD)
- Incident and Vendor management experience with Security and Health & Safety awareness
- Experience with building physical data center such as copper/fiber cabling
- Experience developing operational metrics to drive efficiencies
- Experience in contributing to the definition and implementation of automation opportunities within an deployment/build environment
- Experience with lean methodologies and Six-Sigma or similar qualification
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $96,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $216,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
If you would like to use people skills and technical knowledge and apply them to delivering on-time, defect-free service, we’d like to meet you. Your work will help to create sustainable processes and standards; and drive automation opportunities to reduce delivery cycle times and to improve quality without impacting network availability.
Travel: Extensive travel will be required in 2024, but will be limited in 2025 and beyond.
Key job responsibilities
The Infra Delivery Manager will:
- Prioritize and assign tasks to data center technicians and operators, project management, coaching and creating documentation.
- Manage inbound capacity from receiving through deployment stages
- Manage the installation network and cabling infrastructure in a data center environment
- Guide, train and educate staff on the best practices related to all service owner issues
- Manage tasks and deliverables across small to large-size projects
- Recommend, document, and oversee policies and procedures to meet industry best practices and to meet required SLAs
- Provide weekly report to the data center manager
- Coordinate team resources to support project and delivery needs, to include emergency projects, change management and maintenance window support, and potential off-hours and on-call needs.
- Recruit and train data technicians to ensure appropriate staffing levels
- Host weekly staff meetings
- Drive compliance to Amazon performance management requirements
A day in the life
The Infra Delivery Manager
- Manage the daily operations for installing and delivering network equipment and related infrastructures; driving low voltage structured cabling across the Amazon data center platform
- Oversee their development and growth of their team
- Tracking budgets, providing strategic direction and proposing technical solutions
- Solve problems at their root and step back to understand the broader context
- Installing and delivering our network equipment and related infrastructures to improve effectiveness through process innovation
About the team
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.
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.
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- An engineering degree or equivalent with 5+ years of relevant engineering or manufacturing operations experience, of which 2+ years in a people management experience, building & managing technical teams.- Proven ability in driving and managing metrics/KPI's with a high degree of organization and detail-orientation
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft Suite ( MS Words, Excel, Project Visio and Power point) and Auto CAD)
- Incident and Vendor management experience with Security and Health & Safety awareness
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years in a data center technology role- Experience with building physical data center such as copper/fiber cabling
- Experience developing operational metrics to drive efficiencies
- Experience in contributing to the definition and implementation of automation opportunities within an deployment/build environment
- Experience with lean methodologies and Six-Sigma or similar qualification
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $96,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $216,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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