Amazon Web Services Looking For Senior Technical Infra Program Manager, DC Planning and Delivery at Mumbai, India Full Time

Description

Job summary

Amazon Web Service (AWS) is a comprehensive, evolving, and growing business unit within Amazon.com. Since early 2006, AWS has provided a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost cloud infrastructure platform that empowers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries to innovate and invent.

Do you have the business background, complex cross functional program management experience, financial expertise, legal/regulatory comprehension and technical understanding? Can you communicate effectively, find clarity in ambiguity, and simplicity in complexity?

If yes, then come and explore this exciting role. This role in Amazon Data Services India Private Limited (ADSIPL) Mumbai builds infrastructure that hosts AWS cloud services. It delivers AWS cloud infrastructure in a challenging, high growth, fast paced and customer focused work environment. In this role, you will lead cross functional teams to deliver usable data center capacity. You will partner with senior stakeholders to develop, document, manage and deliver infrastructure designs, implementation schedules and budgets. You will earn trust of your partners in your ability to solve complex issues and steer teams in right direction to deliver results, on-time and at-cost.

You must be an exceptionally strong communicator (both written and verbal), and possess 8-10 years of experience in management of highly technical and strategic programs. If you bring past experience in data center deployment programs, great. If not, then having a background in architecture/design, mechanical/electrical engineering, software/hardware engineering with strong urge to learn will be essential.

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Key job responsibilities

Senior Infrastructure TPM owns delivery of new DC supply (space, power, and cooling) across one or more availability zones in India. They manage 10+ projects at any time. They bridge internal customers, business functions, (Planning, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Policy, Operations), and functional delivery teams (Construction, Commissioning, Controls, Fiber and Network) to enable on-time and right sized delivery of new DC capacity.

The scope begins with early expansion planning, which includes a feasibility analysis to approve expansion plans and associated build timelines. They evaluate multiple factors prior to approving a new plan of record, including owned/leased/collocated DC supply, utility delivery (power, water, and fiber), and long lead equipment (LLE) availability. It requires region-wide knowledge and monitoring of in-flight projects, major risks, and remediation efforts to ensure DC delivery is not only on track to meet supply commitments but also to meet customer demand, which is constantly changing.

A successful TPM must be capable of managing a combination of metrics, tools, and mechanisms to remain aware of ongoing risks or issues that require their action, decision, mitigations, or effort to identify alternative solutions communicating up, down, and across the organization to align direction, gain support and drive remediation efforts

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 10+ years of program management experience

• Experience in core project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management.

• Must be well organized and able to work effectively under cost and time pressure.

• Proficiency with project management tools, metrics and methodologies

• Exceptional analytical, quantitative, communication, and presentation skills

• Must be able to make it simple for all stakeholders

• Must have required gravitas to communicate most effectively and respectfully at the highest levels internally and externally with partner and vendor organizations

• Experience of managing projects in India

• Candidate must be comfortable managing remote project delivery teams, and possess the ability to facilitate technical whiteboard sessions to troubleshoot project implementation issues, and remove barriers to project success. Being able to create cross-functional matrix-based teams, establish trust with a variety of stakeholders across multiple time zones, manage capital budgets, eliminate non-value-add activity, design solutions, remove blockers, and find creative ways to accelerate project delivery is a must.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s Degree or advanced professional degree.

• Bachelors and/or master’s degree from premium institutes

• One or more of the following certifications: Agile, SCRUM, PRINCE2, PMP

• Experience in management of complex technology infrastructure projects (e.g. data centers, telecom, energy)

• Understanding of Information Technology, Cloud Computing concepts and specifically, AWS offerings.

• Understanding of India cloud computing and data center market and service providers