Do you like to use network and Unix systems engineering to deliver simple, sustainable and repeatable solutions? Would you like to play a key role in driving the stability and sustainability of next-generation IP networks?

Amazon.com is looking for best-in-class Network Engineers to drive the deployment, scaling and automation of one of the world's largest and complex networks: the AWS Direct Connect service - the service that connects AWS to our largest customers in data centers around the world. With Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com), 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 automate 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 networking 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

As a Network Development Engineer you will:

- Support and maintain our next generation networks.

- Deliver simple, sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes.

- Work closely with our broader Network Engineering & Deployment teams to ensure operational readiness for new deployments.

- Drive standards across the network and ensure that we are fully compliant to those standards and policies.

- Participate and drive impact mitigation during large-scale events utilizing an established Event Management process.

- Drive event deep dives for large-scale events, deliver high-quality documentation for the events and drive corrective actions to completion.

- Improve our detection mechanisms by designing and implementing new alerts.

- Create and review documentation and process regarding recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc.

- Troubleshoot interconnectivity issues, including troubleshooting of network device configuration and low level application interaction.

- Identify and drive opportunities to repeatable tasks through creation and maintenance of scripts and tools.

A day in the life

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. As our

network is one of the largest in the world, there is no blue print at our scale allowing our engineers to

develop solutions to the complex challenges that we face daily. We encourage durable solutions that

look around corners while taking into consideration our customer needs from a cost, performance, and

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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 4+ years of major internet routing protocols experience

- 4+ years of working in a Linux/Unix environment experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of IP networking fundamentals such as BGP, OSPF and other R&S technologies

- Experience with networking fundamentals including hands-on experience with load balancers, switches, routers, etc.