Network Development Engineer, Amazon Corporate Network Engineering

About the role

The Corporate Network Engineering Organization is looking for a Network Development Engineer to join our Core Engineering team. This role involves designing the next generation of SDWAN/Edge network using Cloud based technologies, automating the deployment of network devices, deploying and scaling our network across global POP locations, creating simple, repeatable deployment processes, collaborating with Systems and Software Engineers, and ensuring the network is deployed to established standards.

Responsibilities

• Design the next generation of SDWAN/Edge network using Cloud based technologies such as Transit Gateway, NAT gateways, ANF, DX Gateways, Lambda, and other virtual Gateways to serve 500+ remote offices.
• Automate the deployment of network devices and gateways using infrastructure as a code across all of our network fabrics using automation such as CDK, Python.
• Deploy, scale and automate our network across many global POP locations and multiple AWS regions, including existing footprints and new locations.
• Create simple, repeatable deployment processes and improve upon existing processes.
• 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.
• Create and update our network standards and ensure that the network is deployed to these standards.
• Work closely with our automation teams in defining the platforms and frameworks that allow us to scale at unprecedented volume.
• Create and review documentation and process regarding network implementation/deployments, recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc.
• Lead design, network/code and security reviews across teams to identify risks and prevent classes of bugs prior to production release.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of major internet routing protocols experience
• 4+ years experience developing engineering, deployment, or operations mechanisms to support IP network and/or networking systems
• 4+ years experience in a technical on-call capacity, responding to customer impacting events, mitigating and root cause analysis of those events
• 1+ years of experience in automation via Bash/shell scripting and Perl/Python programming
• Experience with one or more of the following routers, server load balancer, and firewall vendor platforms: Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, Arista, Brocade, Extreme, Citrix, F5, Fortinet, Palo Alto, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of IP networking fundamentals such as BGP, OSPF and other R&S technologies
• Experience working with networks, IT infrastructure, or system integration
• 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.
• Knowledge of wireless security - .1x, RADIUS, WPA2, EAP-TLS, PSK, general PKI concepts
• Experience with 3G/4G/WiMax