The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena CA is looking to hire a Network Development Engineer in the Quantum Infrastructure and Production group. We are seeking a motivated candidate who can who can design new network architectures configure physical network hardware and secure networking technology stack. As a network development engineer in our organization you are expected to communicate across multiple stakeholders including scientists engineers organizational partners external vendors and leadership. You are also expected to troubleshoot onpremise and remote infrastructure automate the monitoring of prototype and production systems and serve in a customer facing support role for our internal service team. On this team you will wear many hats work smart and iterate quickly. Successful applicants will have strong written and verbal communication skills a track record of successfully delivering complex network projects with ambitious timelines and experience working with local and crossregion environments.
Key job responsibilities
Deploy automate and scale network infrastructure across new and existing mission critical environments
Develop proposals and influence without authority to align business and technical stakeholders on approach
Identify and troubleshoot recurring networking routing and platform issues towards resolution while engaging with mid and seniorlevel engineering teams
Create and review documentation and processes for new builds standard operating procedures strategic planning etc.
Identify and deliver on opportunities to automate repeatable networking tasks by creating and maintaining scripts or tools
A day in the life
As a Network Engineer as Amazon your core job responsibility is to design network topologies architectures and services that solve for many requirements. The primary area of responsibility you will have is to design ahead of customer or technology needs always predicting and solving for problems that have not yet occurred. This takes the form of creating and defending highlevel design documents working with vendors or internal stakeholders to influence technology roadmaps constructing and testing your solutions and providing support to deploy and operate these designs.
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4 years of major internet routing protocols experience
4 years of working in a Linux/Unix environment experience
1 years of automation scripting using Python Bash Shell and/or Perl experience
CCNA or CompTIA Network certified.
Obtained one or more of the following certifications: CompTIA Security CCNP or AWS Certified Advanced Networking.
AWS experience for services including VPC Direct Connect SitetoSite VPN and AWS Outpost.
Knowledge of Access Control Lists Firewalls and SNMP.
Experience working with scientific instrumentation.
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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