Amazon is the earth’s most customer centric company and is looking to hire highly motivated, best-in-class engineers for our expanding Network Engineering teams. You will be working on the networks that support the Earth’s largest cloud provider; our customers demand the highest quality and reliability for their services and while expanding at a tremendous rate, it is our responsibility to maintain quality and reliability while developing innovative ways to scale our network.
We are inventing the networks of the future so our engineers require a deep background in networking routing protocols and operating large scale networks. Our network engineers are pivotal in driving technology changes that ensure a safe and reliable operating environment, working with internal teams and customers to integrate new features and services to the network, developing automated tooling and implementing design optimisations that drive reliability and performance.
Network Operations
Our Network Engineering and Operations engineers are responsible for operating and maintaining the health of Amazon’s Retail and Web Services network. This team not only operates one of the largest networks on earth by leveraging the latest in high scale networking hardware, multi-tier topologies and advanced tooling but also solves complex technical problems. Our team supports all aspects of connectivity to/from Amazon and the outside world, as well as the connectivity between Amazon’s data centres and services.
Network Scaling and Deployment Engineering
Our Network Scaling and Deployment engineers build and grow the Amazon network worldwide. We constantly adopt new and exciting technologies and integrate into our networks network topologies to scale for an ever-growing demand for network capacity. We expect our network engineers to be passionate about new technologies, to be curious and learn constantly, drive new and effective ways to build and scale networks while maintaining a vigilance on service safety. Our engineers are expected to self-manage several projects at a time, providing regular status updates identify and work though issues independently.
Job Responsibilities:
· Provide critical network operations support to AWS’s internal and external customers to diagnose, remediate and troubleshoot large-scale networking events
· Support and maintain our next generation data-center networks - Deliver simple, sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes to mitigate complex issues
· Troubleshoot networking, routing and interconnectivity issues, including troubleshooting of network device configuration and low level application interaction
· Solve complex challenges on an unprecedented scale to allow for automated operations of the Amazon network
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.
You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
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Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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* Bachelor’s Degree in a engineering technology related field or equivalent experience
* 3+ years professional experience working in large scale networking environments.
* Experience with internet routing protocols and concepts: TCP/IP, BGP, MPLS, ISIS and/or OSPF
* Experience with network operating systems such as Cisco IOS and Junos.
* Experience working in a Linux/Unix environment
* Experience in automation via Bash/shell scripting and Perl/Python programming.* Knowledge of network analysis fundamentals and robust troubleshooting skills; specifically, network performance analysis
* Experience working with customers to diagnose a problem, and work toward resolution
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
* Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
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