Job Description
Job Summary
Build the Cloud, rather than just using it. As a Network Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will build and operate the network infrastructure that makes the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure possible. Close collaboration, support, and exchange of ideas will help serve external customers with seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost.
You will work with the most advanced tools, processes, and talented people in the industry to make the Cloud a reality. If you are motivated and passionate about the work you do, care about delivering for your customers, and have a love for learning and working with new technologies, then we welcome you to join us.
Job Responsibilities
A Network Development Engineer is responsible for engineering, implementation, scalability, operations, reliability, and sustainability of our next-generation networks. They will utilize their networking skills along with our advanced tools and systems to invent, refine, and develop automation and mechanisms to reduce manual operations.
- Lead network projects in areas of network sustaining engineering, network deployment/implementation, network scaling, technology refresh, best practices application, and/or network optimization.
- Influence operations function, respond to customer impact events and requests, troubleshoot, and fix and improve automation that runs our network.
- Analyze the network using tools and metrics to ensure it is operating correctly, safely, and securely.
- Investigate technical issues scientifically and thoroughly, and assist in fixing complex problems so they don't come back.
- Plan, deliver, and simplify new systems, processes, and tools to better deliver for our customers.
- Deliver sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes, optimize and remove bottlenecks.
- Understand new and upcoming networking systems and develop ways of safely implementing them into our environment.
About the Team
Collaborate with and learn from the best networking engineers in the world. Develop, build, and operate networks at the largest scale in an organization that values its engineers and promotes innovation and ownership. Be part of a unique team dedicated to history-making programs. Start a career path in one of the largest and most successful tech companies with a near-endless opportunity to explore and grow.
Qualifications
A relevant degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent experience in a large-scale network environment. Experience in a network-focused hands-on technical role working with routing protocols/technologies and platforms in large-scale data centre and/or WAN environments.
- Experience developing engineering, deployment, or operations mechanisms to support IP networking systems.
- Experience in a technical on-call capacity, responding to customer impacting events, mitigating and root cause analysis of those events.
- Knowledge and experience of interacting with many network devices at a time through any of networking configuration tools, Infrastructure as Code or scripting.
Preferred Qualifications
Thorough understanding of TCP/IP networking, routing, and Network Security architecture and core technologies such as IP, TCP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, load balancers, firewalls, ACLs, DNS, DHCP, IP address management. Knowledge and experience of Linux or other Unix operating systems. Understand different networking hardware and packet forwarding architectures. Proficiency in scripting/programming with one or more of Python (preferred), Perl, Ruby, Shell, Java, etc.