Network Development Engineer, GCNA

About the Role

The AWS Global Connectivity and Network Availability (GCNA) Organization is seeking a Network Development Engineer for its Internet Edge team. This role is central to connecting the global AWS network and controlling internet traffic to ensure users can access information and applications worldwide. The team builds and designs a complex backbone network for efficient internet traffic flow between data centers and customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and implement network changes.
• Collaborate with automation teams to define tools for scaling.
• Lead network projects in areas such as sustaining engineering, deployment, scaling, technology refresh, best practices, and optimization.
• Sustain next-generation AWS networks by providing critical network support to diagnose, mitigate, and resolve large-scale networking events.
• Operate and troubleshoot network routing, interconnectivity, platforms, performance, and configuration issues, including low-level application interaction, Unix systems, and new networking software tools.
• Drive and support innovation across the network stack.
• Partner with the broader Network/Infrastructure organization on engineering, configuration standards, and tools.
• Work closely with Network/Systems/Software Engineering teams on new designs, products, and the deployment/sustaining of networking software tools.
• Maintain standards across the networking toolset and ensure compliance.
• Deliver simple, sustainable, and repeatable solutions and processes.
• Collaborate with high-tier escalation engineers/resolvers.
• Create and review documentation and processes regarding network implementation, recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, and knowledge transfer.
• Evolve routing policy, implement traffic engineering, grow peering, secure the network edge, and architect hardware platforms and network design.
• Develop automation and write software to improve and automate internet connectivity in areas like capacity delivery, configuration deployment, impairment detection, and traffic optimization.
• Make day-to-day and long-term strategic decisions with significant impact across Amazon's products.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, with the ability to travel to the workplace for critical events.
• Manage customers during problem resolution and operate efficiently under pressure.
• Travel to data center/network sites and Amazon/customer offices as needed.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• CND or GSEC or Network+ or Security+
• High school or equivalent diploma
• Python, Bash, Shell, and/or Perl for automation scripting

Qualifications

• Experience participating in network/systems support for a large-scale enterprise or service provider environment.
• Experience with new technologies and optimizing existing technology.