Optical Planning Network Development Engineer, Capacity Engineering

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

Our 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 world's 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 team’s 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


About the team
About the team

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.

Why AWS?
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.

Inclusive Team Culture
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 conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
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.

Work/Life Balance
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.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's 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

Preferred Qualifications

- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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.