Senior Network Development Engineer, ADC Networking

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 Engineers look after the behind-the-scenes network and tools that make the worlds largest cloud computing infrastructure possible.

We have an amazing opportunity for you to join a world-class network team in a dynamic environment that has the feel of a start-up. As a Network Development Engineer (NDE) you will be responsible for building and operating the network infrastructure you will learn all of the tools services and components that the team relies upon to run the network. We collaborate closely with our internal customers and exchange ideas we share a common goal to serve our external customers and grow through learning and innovation.

If you are exceptionally motivated and passionate about networking then we welcome you to join us working with the most advanced tools processes and talented people in the industry to make the cloud a reality. A love for working with new technologies is essential.

What youll be working on:

- Define technical direction and drive innovation for large-scale network infrastructure projects leading strategic network programs across multiple domains including deployment/implementation scaling and optimization
- Design and implement network architectures from the ground up establishing patterns and best practices for the organization
- Own and drive resolution of complex network challenges that impact strategic customers
- Develop and execute network automation strategy at scale creating frameworks that enable team efficiency
- Lead multiple high-impact programs simultaneously for AWSs largest partners
- Establish and influence the technical roadmap for tools and utilities supporting AWS fleet services
- Mentor and provide technical leadership to develop engineering excellence within the team


Key job responsibilities
An NDE is responsible for ensuring all network fabrics and devices are operating as expected. An NDE will utilise their networking skills along with available tools and services to troubleshoot and resolve any issues that have not been remediated through automation and to identify the root cause. They are expected to invent refine and develop new automation and tools to reduce manual operations and fulfil the requirements of the business and customers.


About the team
The Network Development team drives engineering implementation scalability operations reliability and sustainability for all of the network fabrics that underpin the software services and platforms used within an AWS isolated region.

Top Reasons to join our team:

- Collaborate with and learn from the best networking experts in the world
- Get to develop build and operate networks at the very largest scale in an organisation that values its engineers and engineering teams and promotes innovation and ownership
- Be part of a unique team thats dedicated to history-making programmes
- Start a career path in one of the largest and most successful tech companies with a near-endless opportunity to explore and grow

- Experience with a scripting language such as PowerShell Python Bash Perl Ruby or similar
- Bachelors degree or a PhD and experience working in a large-scale networking environment
- Recognised as an expert in a network focused hands-on technical role working with routing protocols/technologies and platforms in large scale data centre and/or WAN network environments.
- Extensive experience in a technical on-call capacity responding to customer impacting events mitigating and root cause analysis of those events.
- Significant experience developing engineering deployment or operations mechanisms to support IP network and/or networking systems.
- This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state.

- Thorough understanding of TCP/IP networking IP routing Server Load Balancing and Network Security architecture and core technologies such as IP TCP OSPF BGP MPLS Server Load Balancers Firewalls ACLs DNS DHCP LDAP etc.
- Experience of designing developing or operating network services running on AWS
- Strong desire to build ability to multitask sense of ownership and urgency.

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