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.
AWS is looking for a Software Development Engineer for the AWS Network organization. This position is located in Sydney, Australia and working in the heart of AWS global network. The engineers within our organization are instrumental in allowing us drive the stability and sustainability of our next-generation networks and to discover innovative ways to automate and scale our network using software solutions.
We are looking for an engineer to develop and support services that provide the first pillar of a framework to deploy and monitor world-scale cloud-based network solutions. Indirectly, our goal is to eliminate human intervention and errors from network engineering and network build processes by building tools and systems to successfully manage thousands of network devices in dozens of data centers across the world. In this role, you will work on a team with network development engineers to troubleshoot, develop, maintain, and grow a globally distributed specialized AWS network deployment and monitoring systems.
Software Development Engineers develop coding best practices, refine operational procedures and constantly innovate proactively. You will continuously identify areas of growth within the existing frameworks, tools and processes to develop further technical mechanisms to reduce waste and continuously improve.
Software Development Engineers also work hand-in-hand with Network Deployment teams to invent new ways of deploying, scaling and operating Amazon's Next-Generation Network while never losing sight of the high security bar our customers’ demand.
Key job responsibilities
- Be part of the team that shapes the Automation future in Networking
- Use and develop tools and process that collect and rationalize data from different sources
- Use and develop monitoring tools and frameworks to reduce our operations workload
- Participate in an on call rotation with your team
- Work closely with our Network Engineering teams to ensure fast, smooth software roll-outs and network operations
- Lead and ensure on-time delivery of our expansions and region builds
- Identify and troubleshoot recurring platform issues with effective escalation of senior-level engineering teams
- Ensure the availability, and performance of systems critical to the operation of the AWS Network
- Contribute to documentation, process and procedures
- Be involved in the formulation of a structured training
- Design and recommend optimization for service delivery
About the team
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- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Knowledge of standard internet protocols (Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, SSL, DNS, HTTP, etc.)
- Cloud/Network operations experience and working knowledge of AWS services
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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