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Amazon

Sells products online and rents cloud computing

Senior Technical Infrastructure Program Manager - NANO

Full-Time
$148.7k - $201.2k/yr+ Sign-on payments + Restricted stock units (RSUs)
Mid, Senior
Austin, TX, USA
In Person
IT OperationsIT Project Management
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • The candidate must have at least 3 years of technical infrastructure management experience.
  • The candidate must have at least 6 years of program management experience in information technology infrastructure delivery.
  • The candidate must have experience managing stakeholders at varied organizational levels.
  • The candidate must have site-launch experience for information technology infrastructure, including wireless LAN, local area network, and end-user equipment, in retail, distribution, logistics, or similar environments.
  • The candidate must be able to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment while prioritizing and managing multiple responsibilities.
  • The candidate must be able to facilitate collaboration across multiple functions, departments, and organizational levels.
  • The candidate must demonstrate complex program management capabilities, strategic technical decision-making, and the ability to establish processes and standards.
Responsibilities
  • Define country-level infrastructure strategy by establishing architecture standards and readiness criteria for site launches.
  • Own the end-to-end network infrastructure scope from vendor selection through service-level agreement governance and financial outcome management.
  • Identify and recommend associate-facing end-user equipment, including scanners, workstations, and printers, that meets regional cost and performance targets, partnering with device technology teams for certification.
  • Establish playbooks, architecture standards, and deployment sequencing for the country, and step in at escalation points where selections have fleet-wide implications.
  • Drive network availability, device fleet health, and financial performance across the country's fleet through vendor governance cadences and performance management.
  • Define regional network strategy that scales across hundreds to thousands of sites.
  • Steer technology capability investments toward fleet-scale readiness.
  • Evaluate transitions that deliver cost reductions compared with traditional infrastructure models.
  • Present infrastructure roadmaps to senior business operations leadership.
  • Make architecture and vendor selections that determine availability, cost trajectory, and launch velocity for an entire geography.
Desired Qualifications
  • The candidate should have at least 8 years of data center, network engineering, and/or systems engineering experience.
  • Project Management Professional certification or project management experience is preferred.
  • Experience in procurement, inventory and asset management of information technology equipment, and information technology lifecycle management is preferred.
  • Understanding of core information technology infrastructure and service concepts is preferred.
  • Intermediate-level knowledge of one or more of local area networking, wide area networking, wireless, telecommunications, systems administration, low-voltage data cabling, or data facilities technologies is preferred.
  • Comprehensive quality assurance program design experience is preferred.

About the company

Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

1994

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What believers are saying

  • AI drives growth: AWS's AI and custom-chip sales each more than doubled, passing $25 billion a year by June 2026.
  • Stock grants gained value: shares hit a record in August 2026, making Amazon the fifth company to reach $3 trillion.
  • Ads are a third engine beside stores and AWS: they grew 26% to $19.8 billion in the June 2026 quarter.

What critics are saying

  • AWS's lead is shrinking: in the June 2026 quarter, Google Cloud grew 82% and Microsoft's Azure 43%, versus AWS's 37%.
  • Job security has slipped: Amazon cut 30,000 corporate jobs in October 2025 and January 2026 to reduce management layers.
  • Expect five office days a week: Amazon ended its three-day hybrid policy for corporate staff in January 2025.

What makes Amazon unique

  • Most of Amazon's profit comes from cloud: AWS made 21% of sales but 60% of operating profit in mid-2026.
  • Amazon is America's biggest parcel carrier by volume: it handled 6.9 billion packages in 2025, more than the Postal Service.
  • Writing matters more than slides: Amazon meetings open with silent reading of a six-page memo instead of PowerPoint.

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