Network Development Engineer - Direct Connect, Direct Connect

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.

We are looking for Network Engineers to drive the deployment scaling and of one of the worlds largest and complex networks: the AWS Direct Connect service - the service that connects AWS to our largest customers in datacenters around the world. With Amazon Web Services () our goal is to become The Infrastructure Platform to the world. Our customers demand the highest quality and reliability for their services and challenge us to be better faster and cheaper every day. We are expanding at a tremendous rate; it is our responsibility to maintain quality and reliability while developing innovative ways to the scaling of our network.

First a bit of background:

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a broad set of global compute storage database analytics application and services that help organizations move faster lower IT costs and scale applications. Our services are trusted by the largest enterprises and the hottest startups to power a wide variety of workloads.

The AWS Direct Connect team delivers solutions that make it easy for customers to establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to the AWS cloud. These connections help to reduce network costs increase bandwidth throughput and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections. AWS Direct Connect is currently available in more than 100 locations which span nearly 70 cities in 30 different countries.

Key job responsibilities
- Be responsible for deploying datacenter network infrastructure across our network fabrics that support the Amazon Retail Service Kindle Payments and multiple AWS services.
- Deploy critical Tier 0 services relied upon by customer-facing systems as well many internal services including Amazon Retail
- Deploy scale and our network across multiple global datacenters. This includes existing footprints and greenfield locations.
- Drive scaling of current network designs to meet the demand of our customers.
- Create simple repetitive deployment processes that increase both velocity and quality.
- Work closely with our internal customers on designs/solutions; bringing those designs/solutions from concept to production.
- Create and update our network standards and ensure that the network is deployed to these standards.
- Create and implement changes on the network.
- Work closely with our teams in defining the tools that allow us to scale at unprecedented volume.
- Draft scripts for automating configuration and other tasks using tools such as Python Perl etc.

About the team
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- 4 years TCP networking fundamentals and extensive experience in the application and troubleshooting of TCP
- 4 years experience with major internet routing protocols; specifically BGP and OSPF
- 4 years network analysis fundamentals and troubleshooting skills.
- 2 years experience in network automation scripting in any language e.g. Python/Ansible/Perl etc

- A background in large-scale network design or deployment is highly desired.
- 4 years experience with major router platforms; specifically Cisco: ASR NCS Nexus and Juniper: MX/EX platforms including all compatible supervisory and line cards for these platforms.
- 4 years experience with many of the following protocols & technologies: 802.2/3 802.1d VLANs/STP IPv4 & IPv6 TCP (internals & flow control) MPLS RSVP-TE BGP OSPF HSRP/VRRP/GLBP PIMv2 IGMP LDP TACACS IPSEC & VPNs Netflow DNS HTTP SSL 40/100Gbps.
- 2 years Unix/Linux CLI experience

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