Network Development Engineer, GCNA

at  Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience in a large–scale network environment.
Experience in a network focused hands– on technical role working with IP routing protocols/technologies and platforms in large scale data center and/or WAN network environments.
Experience developing engineering, deployment, or operations mechanisms to support IP network and/or networking systems.
Experience in a technical on-call capacity, responding to customer impacting events, mitigating and root cause analysis of those events.
Experience in automation via Bash/shell scripting and Perl/Python programming.
The AWS Global Connectivity and Network Availability (GCNA) Organization is looking for a Network Development Engineer to join our Backbone Enterprise, and Regional Engineering (BERE) team. Network Development Engineers partner with our broader Infrastructure organization on configurations standards and tools, and collaborate with Systems and Software Engineers to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products, and also deploy and sustain networking software tools.
AWS GCNA is the backbone that connects the global AWS network and focuses on controlling the internet traffic that allows users to access their information and applications regardless of where they are in the world. GCNA is responsible for building and designing a complex backbone network that allows internet traffic to flow efficiently between data centers and customers.
If you like to work with new technologies, optimizing existing technology, and have experience participating in network/systems support for a large-scale enterprise or service provider environment, we would like to meet you. Your work will play a key role in driving the stability and sustainability of next- generation IP networks.
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.
Key job responsibilities
Network Development Engineers perform high quality network and/or systems operations, deployments, scaling, technology refresh, sustaining engineering, best practices application, optimization, internal/external customer interactions, and produce appropriate technical documentation.
Create and implement changes on the network.
Work closely with our automation teams in defining the tools that allows us to scale at higher volume.
Lead network projects in the areas of network sustaining engineering, network deployment/implementation, network scaling, technology refresh, best practices application, and/or network optimization.
Sustain Amazon Web Services’ next generation networks for significant AWS customers by providing critical network support to diagnose, mitigate impact, and resolve large-scale networking events.
Operate and troubleshoot network routing, interconnectivity, platforms, performance, and configurations issues; including necessary low-level application interaction, Unix systems, and new age networking software tools.
Drive and support innovation from Top of Rack to the Network Border, and everything in between.
Partner with our broader Network/Infrastructure organization in the areas of network engineering, configurations standards, and tools.
Work closely with our Network/Systems/Software Engineering teams to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products, as well as, assist with deployment and sustaining of networking software tools.
Maintain standards across the networking toolset and ensure that we are fully compliant to those standards and policies.
Deliver simple, sustainable, and repeatable solutions and processes.
Collaborate with the highest tier escalation engineers/resolvers.
Create and review documentation and process regarding network. implementation/deployments, recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Dublin, D, IRL
Thorough understanding of TCP/IP networking, IP routing, Server Load Balancing, and Network Security architecture and core technologies such as IP, TCP, OSPF/IS-IS, BGP, MPLS, Server Load Balancers, Firewalls, ACLs, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, LDAP, NFS, etc.
Experience with one or more of the following router, server load balancer, and firewall vendor platforms: Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, Arista, Brocade, Extreme, Citrix, F5, Fortinet, Palo Alto, etc.
Knowledge of network hardware and packet forwarding architectures. Experience working in virtualized enterprise networking environments.
Software development/programming. Must be comfortable working in a Linux/Unix environment. Ability to work in and keep up with a fast-moving environment via effective prioritization and time management.
A relevant degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent experience in a large – scale network environment.
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