Network Development Engineer, GCNA
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
The Amazon's Enterprise Enterprise Office Network Edge Engineering Team is looking to hire Network Engineers to help design, automate deployment and scale of one of the worlds largest and complex networks.
The Amazon's Enterprise provides mission-critical global connectivity for internal services and business applications, datacenter infrastructure equipment, and 1,000,000+ internal users. In this role you will look for innovative and creative ways to design, automate and scale our next-generation network architectures.
We are seeking an experienced Network Development Engineer to join a highly skilled team Enterprise Networking team that is able to design and automate the deployment of the next generation networking products deployed to AWS Datacenters globally.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
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Key job responsibilities
As a Network Development Engineer working within AWS Infrastructure you will:
• Be responsible for designing the next generation of SDWAN/Edge network using Cloud based technologies such as AWS CloudWAN, Transit Gateway,NAT gateways , ANF, DX Gateways, Lambda and other virtual Gateways to serve 500+ remote offices.
• Automating the deployment of network devices 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. This includes 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.
• Leads design, network/code and security reviews across teams to identify risks and prevent classes of bugs prior to production release.
A day in the life
Our ideal candidate is highly autonomous, possesses strong written and verbal communication skills, strong project management and time management skills and has a successful track record of designing simple, scalable solutions and troubleshooting complex network problems and delivering innovative solutions. The desire and ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment is essential. Together with traditional networking routing , switching experience and firewall experience , we are looking for candidates with AWS networking skills such as VPC, Transit Gateway, DX gateways, NAT gateways, Load balancer , Cloud watch to help us build the next generation Edge network.
About the team
As a part of Enterprise Office Network Edge Engineering team, we are responsible for Edge Network which connects 500+ remote offices to the Enterprise core network as well as into AWS cloud. We own the network standards, deployment mechanisms, automation and delivery of large programs, including AWS VPC transit gateway based networks that connect our traditional networks to Native AWS.