Amazon is the world's most customer centric company and is looking to hire highly motivated, best-in-class Network Engineers to help deploy and automate one of the world's largest and complex networks. With Amazon Web Services, our goal is to become The Infrastructure Platform to the world. Our customers demand the highest quality and reliability for their services. 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.

Essential Services Deployment & Automation team is part of larger AWS Core Networking team and caters for growing our existing network, and building future ones. This is increasingly achieved through automation, a 24x7 team, and a deep understanding of multiple fabrics to never leave a packet behind. There is an operational on-call rota in this team.

We expect candidate to be truly innovative, 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 candidate should be committed to creative problem solving, collaborate with team members and focus on getting things done.

Key job responsibilities

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, Kindle, Payments and multiple AWS services.

- Deploy, scale and automate our network across multiple global datacenters. This includes existing footprints and greenfield locations.

- Drive scaling of current network designs to meet the demand of our customers.

- Create simple, repetitive deployment processes that increase both velocity and quality.

- 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.

- Create and implement changes on the network.

- Work closely with our automation teams in defining the tools that allow us to scale at higher volume.

About the team

AWS Core Networking owns datacenter network services that provide unconstrained connectivity to our customers, such as EC2, EBS, S3 and Amazon CDO Services. We own the networks internal connection to the datacenters end to end, including scaling and operational functions, for both traditional datacenters. We also own newer AWS offerings such as Outposts and Local Zones.

Working at AWS in the Core Networking Team

- Meet Matt, VP, Core Networking https://youtu.be/DqTStjRtjX4

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution

- Excellent design, implementation, and skills combined with a proven documentation methodology

- 1+ years' experience in designing and operating largescale, production networks

- 1+ years of experience with internet routing protocols and concepts: TCP/IP, BGP, MPLS, ISIS and/or OSPF

- 1+ years of experience with routing and switching hardware from major vendors including Cisco and Juniper

- Ability to work on a diverse team with a diverse range of coworkers

- Experience working in a Linux/Unix environment

- Experience in automation via Bash/shell scripting and Perl/Python programming.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $91,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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