Network Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon’s network is a key differentiator for Amazon Cloud Computing and Web Services (AWS), enabling the global operation of thousands of applications across hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide. The AWS Networking team develops and operates the network platform for all of Amazon including e-commerce products and cloud computing solutions. This platform is industry-leading for its efficiency, performance, reliability and scale and it is critical to the success of all AWS customers.

For this role, we are seeking Network Development Engineers (NDE) to work in our Data Center Network Engineering organization. This team is responsible for designing all of Amazon’s massive scale data center networks. Our data center networks provide high bandwidth and low latency solutions for aggregating server racks, inter-connecting data centers in our regional backbone, inter-connecting our data centers to our Border network, and for management and monitoring of all network devices and critical data center infrastructure. Engineers in this organization define the hardware platforms, physical topologies, routing architectures and software control systems for these networks. These are exciting times in our space – we are growing fast, but still at an early stage and working on ambitious new initiatives where an engineer at any level makes day-to-day and strategic decisions that carry a huge amount of responsibility and significant technical and business impact. If you’re up the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Candidates should have a minimum of 5 years of industry experience in a similar environment.
· Background with high availability, high performance compute, large-scale networks and network design and architecture is highly preferred
· Good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms and distributed system
· Demonstrated experience automating and managing networks (automated provisioning, remote configuration, etc.. )
· Statistical analysis and data analytics experience
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to interact efficiently with peers and customers is required, as well as experience initiating, driving and managing in-event conference calls.
· Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience is mandatory.
· Excellent IP networking fundamentals and extensive experience in the application of IP protocols.
· In-depth knowledge of and experience with major internet routing protocols; specifically BGP (confederations and complex route reflector topologies), OSPF, MPLS, RSVP and ISIS
· In-depth knowledge of and experience with major router platforms; specifically a deep technical understanding of all internal hardware components and understanding of router system design.
· Strong Unix/Linux skills and the ability to code in Python, Perl, shell, C or C++
· Excellent network analysis fundamentals and robust troubleshooting skills; specifically, network performance analysis
· Highly autonomous, very detail oriented, possesses strong written and verbal communication skills