Would you like to be an Engineer that builds the Cloud rather than an Engineer that just uses it At Amazon Web Services (AWS) our Network Development Engineers look after the behindthescenes network and tools that make the worlds largest cloud computing infrastructure possible.
As a Network Development Engineer you will be responsible for building and operating the network infrastructure where you will learn the tools services and components that the team relies upon every day. Through close collaboration support and exchange of ideas we share a common goal to serve our external customers with seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost. And youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own and deliver them.
If you are motivated and passionate about the work that you do care about delivering for your customers have a love for learning and working with new technologies then we welcome you to join us. You will be working with the most advanced tools processes and talented people in the industry to make the Cloud a reality.
Key job responsibilities
A Network Development Engineer is responsible for engineering implementation scalability operations reliability and sustainability of our nextgeneration networks. An NDE will utilise their networking skills along with our advanced tools and systems to invent refine and develop automation and mechanisms to reduce manual operations. Our Engineers think at Amazon scale to solve problems in permanent sustainable and scalable ways with an eye towards utilising the best solution over the quickest solution. The work will include:
Leading network projects in the areas of network sustaining engineering network deployment/implementation network scaling technology refresh best practices application and/or network optimization
Influencing our operations function responding to customer impact events and requests troubleshooting and fixing and improving the automation that runs our network
Analysing the network using tools and metrics to ensure it is operating correctly safely and securely
Investigating technical issues scientifically and thoroughly and assist in fixing complex problems so they dont come back
Successfully planning delivering and simplifying new systems processes and tools to better deliver for our customers
Delivering sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes optimising and removing bottlenecks
Understanding new and upcoming networking systems and developing ways of safely implementing them into our environment
AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS)
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.
About the team
Collaborate with and learn from the best networking engineers in the world
Get to develop build and operate networks at the very largest scale in an organisation that values its engineers and promotes innovation and ownership
Be part of a unique team thats dedicated to historymaking programmes
Start a career path in one of the largest and most successful tech companies with a nearendless opportunity to explore and grow
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employeeled affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Work/Life Balance
We value worklife harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
Mentorship and Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing mentorship and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.
A relevant degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent experience in a largescale network environment.
Experience in a network focused handson technical role working with routing protocols/technologies and platforms in large scale data centre and/or Wide Area Networking (WAN) environments.
Experience developing engineering deployment or operations mechanisms to support IP networking systems.
Experience in a technical oncall capacity responding to customer impacting events mitigating and root cause analysis of those events.
Knowledge & experience of interacting with many network devices at a time through any of networking configuration tools Infrastructure as Code or scripting.
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 & experience of Linux or other Unix operating systems
Understands different networking hardware and packet forwarding architectures
Proficiency in scripting/programming with one or more of Python (preferred) Perl Ruby Shell Java etc.
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