Sr Network Development Engineer BERE Engineering

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words were the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers storage networking power and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain and were looking for talented people who want to help.

Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

The AWS Global Connectivity and Network Availability (GCNA) Organization is looking for a Sr Network Development Engineer to join our Backbone Enterprise and Regional Engineering (BERE) team. Network Development Engineers partner with our broader Infrastructure organization on configurations standards and tools and collaborate with Systems and Software Engineers to ensure fast smooth rollout of new designs and products and also deploy and sustain networking software tools.

AWS GCNA is responsible for the backbone that connects the global AWS network and internet that allows users to access their information and applications regardless of where they are in the world. GCNA is responsible for building and designing a complex backbone network that allows internet traffic to flow efficiently between data centers and customers.

If you like to work with new technologies optimizing existing technology and have experience participating in network/systems support for a largescale enterprise or service provider environment we would like to meet you. Your work will play a key role in driving the stability and sustainability of nextgeneration IP networks.

Key job responsibilities
Create and implement changes on the network.
Work closely with our automation teams in defining the tools that allows us to scale at higher volume.
Lead network projects in the areas of network sustaining engineering network deployment/implementation network scaling technology refresh best practices application and/or network optimization.
Sustain Amazon Web Services next generation networks for significant AWS customers by providing critical network support to diagnose mitigate impact and resolve largescale networking events.
Operate and troubleshoot network routing interconnectivity platforms performance and configurations issues; including necessary lowlevel application interaction Unix systems and new age networking software tools.
Drive and support innovation from Top of Rack to the Network Border and everything in between.
Partner with our broader Network/Infrastructure organization in the areas of network engineering configurations standards and tools.
Work closely with our Network/Systems/Software Engineering teams to ensure fast smooth rollout of new designs and products as well as assist with deployment and sustaining of networking software tools.
Maintain standards across the networking toolset and ensure that we are fully compliant to those standards and policies.
Deliver simple sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes.
Collaborate with the highest tier escalation engineers/resolvers.
Create and review documentation and process regarding network. implementation/deployments recurring issues new standard operating procedures knowledge transfer material etc.

A day in the life
Engineers in the BERE organization have a wide range of responsibilities: we work with internal partners to develop and implement the next gen platforms along with the tooling ecosystems to support these platforms driving efficiency and scalability through the automation of builds configuration deployment and the scaling of capacity. Because network is one of the largest in the world there is no blue print at our scale allowing our engineers to develop solutions to the complex challenges that we face daily. We encourage durable solutions that look around corners while taking into consideration our customer needs from a cost performance and reliability perspective.

Our team develops tooling that provides the required visibility and control of traffic across the network while prioritizing the automatic mitigation of events to minimize the impact to our customers during events.

About the team
Within AWS Networking the Backbone Enterprise and Regional Engineering (BERE) organization is
responsible for the design implementation and operations of a wide array of networking infrastructure that provide global connectivity between all AWS Regions and edge locations.

BERE provides the massive scale required to support our AWS customers and internal services via a network that grows by 70 annually. In addition they have teams that are responsible for the design
and operation of our global corporate office and data center network allowing tens of thousands of
Amazonians to perform their daily tasks in support of our customers.

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5 years of experience in a network focused handson technical role working with IP routing protocols/technologies and platforms in large scale data center and/or WAN network environments.
5 years of experience developing engineering deployment or operations mechanisms to support IP network and/or networking systems.
3 years of experience in automation via Bash/shell scripting and Perl/Python programming.

Thorough understanding of TCP/IP networking IP routing Server Load Balancing and Network Security architecture and core technologies such as IP TCP OSPF/ISIS BGP MPLS Server Load Balancers Firewalls ACLs DNS DHCP IPAM LDAP NFS etc.
Experience with one or more of the following router server load balancer and firewall vendor platforms: Cisco Juniper AlcatelLucent Arista Brocade Extreme Citrix F5 Fortinet Palo Alto etc.
Knowledge of network hardware and packet forwarding architectures.
Experience working in virtualized enterprise networking environments.

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