Network Development Engineer, Enterprise Office Network Edge Team

Job ID: 2752262 | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

The Amazon's Enterprise Office Network Edge Engineering Team is looking to hire Network Engineers to help design, automate deployment and scale of one of the worlds largest and complex networks.

The Amazon's Enterprise provides mission-critical global connectivity for internal services and business applications, datacenter infrastructure equipment, and 1,000,000+ internal users. In this role you will look for innovative and creative ways to design, automate and scale our next-generation network architectures.

We are seeking an experienced Network Development Engineer to join a highly skilled team Enterprise Networking team that is able to design and automate the deployment of the next generation networking products deployed to AWS Datacenters globally.

Key job responsibilities
As a Network Development Engineer working within AWS Infrastructure you will:

1. Be responsible for designing the next generation of SDWAN/Edge network using Cloud based technologies such as Transit Gateway, NAT gateways, ANF, DX Gateways, Lambda and other virtual Gateways to serve 500+ remote offices.
2. Automating the deployment of network devices gateways using infrastructure as a code across all of our network fabrics using automation such as CDK, Python.
3. Deploy, scale and automate our network across many global POP locations and multiple AWS regions. This includes existing footprints and new locations.
4. Create simple, repeatable deployment processes, and improve upon existing processes.
5. Work closely with our Network/Systems/Software Engineering teams to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products, as well as, assist with deployment and sustaining of networking software tools.
6. Create and update our network standards and ensure that the network is deployed to these standards.
7. Work closely with our automation teams in defining the platforms and frameworks that allow us to scale at unprecedented volume.
8. Create and review documentation and process regarding network implementation/deployments, recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc.
9. Leads design, network/code and security reviews across teams to identify risks and prevent classes of bugs prior to production release.

A day in the life
Engineers in the Backbone Enterprise and Regional Engineering (BERE) organization have a wide range of responsibilities: we work with internal partners to develop and implement the next gen platforms along with the tooling ecosystems to support with these platforms driving efficiency and scalability through the automation of builds, configuration deployment, and the scaling of capacity. Our team develops tooling that provides the required visibility and control of traffic across the network, while prioritizing the automatic mitigation of events to minimize the impact to our customers during events.

1. Work in a 24x7 team on call rotation, with ability to drive into workplace for critical events/needs.
2. Manage customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure.
3. Sit at the computer during scheduled work hours with appropriate breaks while maintaining a high level of alertness and attention to detail.
4. Travel to data center/network sites and Amazon/customer offices as needed.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 4+ years of major internet routing protocols experience
- 4+ years experience developing engineering, deployment, or operations mechanisms to support IP network and/or networking systems.
- 4+ years experience in a technical on-call capacity, responding to customer impacting events, mitigating and root cause analysis of those events.
- 1+ years of experience in automation via Bash/shell scripting and Perl/Python programming.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Thorough understanding of TCP/IP networking, IP routing, Server Load Balancing, and Network Security architecture and core technologies such as IP, TCP, OSPF/IS-IS, BGP, MPLS, Server Load Balancers, Firewalls, ACLs, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, LDAP, NFS, etc.
- Experience with one or more of the following routers, server load balancer, and firewall vendor platforms: Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, Arista, Brocade, Extreme, Citrix, F5, Fortinet, Palo Alto, etc.
- In-depth knowledge of and experience with networking and/or systems technologies.

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