Network Development Engineer, Network Fabric Engineering

About the role

The Core Networking team is looking for a Sr. Network Development Engineer to join our Network Fabric Engineering (NFE) team. As a Network Development Engineer, you will be responsible for building, deploying and scaling the Amazon networks that support AWS, customers, and other business units, across multiple global datacenters.

Responsibilities

• Create network designs, services, and deployment procedures that solve for many requirements.
• Design ahead of customer or technology needs, always predicting and solving for problems that have not yet occurred.
• Create and defend High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design (LLD) documents.
• Work with internal stakeholders to influence technology roadmaps.
• Construct and test your solutions.
• Provide support to the teams that will deploy and operate these designs.
• Create and automate deployment processes that increases quality and velocity.
• Work closely with our internal customers on designs/solutions; bringing those designs/solutions from concept to production.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or equivalent
• 8+ years of IP networking fundamentals and extensive experience in the application of IP protocols as well as network analysis fundamentals and robust troubleshooting skills.
• 8+ years of experience with major internet routing protocols; specifically, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, RSVP and ISIS in a large enterprise environment.
• 8+ years working with major network operating systems such as Cisco IOS and/or Junos.
• 3+ years experience with Unix/Linux skills and the ability to script in Python, Perl, shell.

Preferred Qualifications

• A Masters in Computer Science, MBA, or equivalent experience.
• Senior or Lead Engineer experience at other organizations.
• Expert-level certifications (e.g. CCIE, JNCIE) a plus.
• Expert-level scripting and/or automation skills in a network environment.
• Software development/programming skills are a plus.