Job Title:
Network Development Engineer
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About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Network Development Engineer to join our team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). As a Network Development Engineer, you will play a critical role in building and operating the network infrastructure that supports the world's largest cloud computing infrastructure.
You will be responsible for engineering, implementation, scalability, operations, reliability, and sustainability of our next-generation networks. This includes leading network projects, influencing operations, analysing network performance, investigating technical issues, and delivering sustainable and repeatable solutions.
In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, plan, deliver, and operate all AWS global infrastructure. You will collaborate with software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles to deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers.
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Key Responsibilities:
1. Leading network projects in areas such as network sustaining engineering, network deployment/implementation, network scaling, technology refresh, best practices application, and/or network optimization.
2. Influencing our operations function, responding to customer impact events and requests, troubleshooting, and fixing and improving the automation that runs our network.
3. Analysing the network using tools and metrics to ensure it is operating correctly, safely and securely.
4. Investigating technical issues scientifically and thoroughly, and assist in fixing complex problems so they don't come back.
5. Successfully planning, delivering and simplifying new systems, processes, and tools to better deliver for our customers.
6. Delivering sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes, optimising and removing bottlenecks.
7. Understanding new and upcoming networking systems and developing ways of safely implementing them into our environment.
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Qualifications:
* A relevant degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent experience in a large-scale network environment.
* Experience in a network focused hands-on 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 on-call 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.
* Proficiency in scripting/programming with one or more of Python (preferred), Perl, Ruby, Shell, Java, etc.
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