Network Dev Engineer II, Corporate Network Core Engineering

Amazon's Enterprise Network Deployment team is looking to hire Network Engineers to help scale and automate deployment of one of the worlds largest and complex networks.

The Enterprise Network 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 automate and scale our next-generation network architectures.

We are seeking an experienced Network Development Engineer to join a highly skilled team that designs and automates the deployment and growth of next generation networking products deployed to AWS Datacenters globally.

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

• Be responsible for deploying network infrastructure across all of our network fabrics that supports the Amazon Retail Service and AWS services.

• Deploy, scale and automate our network across many global datacenters. This includes existing footprints and new locations.

• Identify automation opportunities and develop tooling and automation to increase scaling velocity and quality.
• Create simple, repeatable deployment processes, and improve upon existing processes.

• 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.
• Work closely with our automation teams in defining the platforms and frameworks that allow us to scale at unprecedented volume.

Our ideal candidate is highly autonomous, possesses strong written and verbal communication skills, strong project management and time management skills and has a successful track record of designing simple, scalable solutions and troubleshooting complex network problems and delivering innovative solutions. The desire and ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment is essential.

Key job responsibilities

As a Network Development Engineer you will:

• Be responsible for deploying network infrastructure across all of our network fabrics that supports the Amazon Corporate Sites

• Deploy, scale and automate our network across many global datacenters. This includes existing footprints and new locations.

• Identify automation opportunities and develop tooling and automation to increase scaling velocity and quality.
• Create simple, repeatable deployment processes, and improve upon existing processes.

• 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.
• Work closely with our automation teams in defining the platforms and frameworks that allow us to scale at unprecedented volume.
• Our ideal candidate is highly autonomous, possesses strong written and verbal communication skills, strong project management and time management skills and has a successful track record of designing simple, scalable solutions and troubleshooting complex network problems and delivering innovative solutions.
• The desire and ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment is essential.

About the team

Amazon's Corporate Network Engineering team is looking to hire Network Dev Engineers to help scale and automate deployment of Amazon corporate enterprise networks.

We design, engineer, secure, automate, and deliver the corporate network from small remote offices to large campus deployments, with a vision of achieving zero-touch network deployment at scale.

Our Mission: Maximize network availability and eliminate work required by humans.

Vision: A fully automated, zero-touch network where every service deploys without manual intervention. Basic qualifications

• 4+ years of major internet routing protocols experience
• 4+ years of working in a Linux/Unix environment experience
• 4+ years of technical work with computer systems and technology components experience, or experience taking ownership and driving resolution on escalated customer issues
• 1+ years of automation scripting using Python, Bash, Shell and/or Perl experience
• 4+ years experience developing engineering, deployment, or operations mechanisms to support IP network and/or networking systems.

Preferred qualifications

• Associate's degree or above
• Thorough understanding of Load Balancing, Network Security architecture and protocols / technologies such as OSPF, BGP, MPLS, SDWAN, VXLAN 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.

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