Technical Infrastructure Program Manager, Infra Operations Planning Team

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Applicants must be Australian citizens and hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance with the ability to successfully complete an Organisational Suitability Assessment. More information regarding security clearances can be found at Mission - Why This Program Why Now
Youre joining at the defining moment of one of the most significant technology programmes Australia has ever undertaken. This programme will build and operate the dedicated cloud giving Australias national security community and its allies the capability to see more share more innovate and act faster than ever before.
The architectural decisions being made now - how we structure networking implement security controls and automate at scale - will shape how Australias national security community operates for the next decade. You wont be inheriting someone elses design choices. Youll be making them.

Your Role in This Story
Imagine orchestrating the full lifecycle of some of the most critical data centre infrastructure in the country from the first blueprint to the final rack installation and beyond. As a Technical Program Manager within AWS Global Infrastructure Operations youll be the connective tissue between engineering vision and operational reality bringing together networking capacity planning construction and service delivery teams to build and scale high-availability environments that never sleep.

This isnt programme management from a desk. Youll be shaping how Australias cloud infrastructure is designed built and operated influencing everything from headcount models and cabling architecture to network builds and hardware decommissioning strategies. The decisions you drive today will determine how securely and efficiently this nations most sensitive workloads run for years to come.

Youll thrive here if youre energised by complexity motivated by national purpose and ready to lead cross-functional teams through ambiguity toward outcomes that genuinely matter. This is your chance to combine deep technical programme management expertise with the rare opportunity to build something from the ground up at a scale few programmes in Australia can match.

Benefits
- Learning & development - AWS training and certification support access to internal learning platforms.
- Health income protection and life cover
- Amazon subsidises private health insurance premiums and group salary continuance and life insurance are included at no cost to you
- Military differential pay launching in Australia - Australian employees taking defence reserve leave may receive up to 52 weeks of military differential pay to help cover the difference in pay while serving
- Employee Assistance Program - Free confidential support 24 hours a day 7 days a week for you and your family - mental health financial coaching legal questions and everyday life events.
- Family-building benefit - Access to Maven for fertility treatment adoption support surrogacy and parenting coaching
- Amazon Extras & employee discount - cashback and discounts across hundreds of retail fitness travel and lifestyle partners.


Key Responsibilities
Youll serve as the critical bridge between Infrastructure Operations Networking TPMs Capacity and Construction teams and service delivery organisations ensuring that every data centre build and cross-departmental initiative moves forward with precision and purpose.

Your impact will span the strategic to the tactical. Youll participate in region-level planning and forecasting translating long-term vision into executable roadmaps while managing multiple large-scale process re-engineering efforts simultaneously. When existing processes dont serve the mission youll redesign them. When cross-functional workflows lack clarity youll document and standardise them so teams can move faster with confidence.

Youll develop and communicate project roadmaps that keep dozens of stakeholders aligned prioritise ruthlessly across competing demands and ensure that every milestone drives toward operational excellence. Your written and verbal communication skills will be your superpower distilling complexity into clarity for audiences ranging from engineers to senior leadership.

This role carries travel requirements of up to 25% giving you direct visibility into the environments youre helping build and the teams youre empowering. Youll also take on strategic tasks as directed by senior leadership positioning you at the intersection of operational delivery and programme strategy.

- 2 years of technical product or program management experience

- Experience leading process improvement systems development and project management
- 2 years of directly managing and responsible for multiple large projects experience
- 2 years of project management including resource planning managing schedules reporting project status and prioritizing tasks experience

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
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