Network Planning & Design Manager

*Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

Design the connectivity behind Lambda’s next data center, backbone route and customer interconnect. You’ll work directly with carrier engineers and equipment partners to turn capacity, latency and resilience requirements into infrastructure we can build.

Our customers are building AI training and inference systems that depend on moving data to and between compute sites. Your decisions about routes, carrier reach and future capacity will help determine how that network grows.

This is a technical individual contributor role on the Network Planning and Delivery team within Cloud and AI Networking. You’ll take designs through Network Engineering approval and stay involved as our Delivery Managers and suppliers put them into service. You’ll see your designs become working infrastructure and help set the standards for what we build next.

• Develop physical and optical connectivity designs for data centers, points of presence, backbone routes and customer interconnects.
• Translate customer and network requirements into routes, capacity plans, equipment needs and acceptance criteria, working within Network Engineering’s and HPC architecture.
• Compare dark fiber, wavelength, internet transit and interconnection options on latency, resilience, total cost, delivery time and room for expansion.
• Validate route diversity and identify shared conduits, building entrances, fiber extensions and other dependencies that could compromise a design.

Develop Solutions with Suppliers

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