About the Role
As a Network Development Engineer I, you will play a critical role in designing, deploying, and supporting networks that enable Amazon's fulfillment centers, middle-mile facilities, and last-mile delivery stations. This is a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the development of next-generation network products.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Technology
- Experience in a network-focused hands-on technical role working with IP routing protocols (interior and exterior), technologies and platforms in large-scale data center, LAN, and/or WAN network environments.
- Experience developing engineering, deployment, or operations mechanisms to support IP networks 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, Infrastructure as Code, Ansible
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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 vendor platforms: Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, Arista, Brocade, Citrix, F5, Fortinet, Palo Alto, etc.
- In-depth knowledge of and experience with networking and/or systems technologies.
- 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.
- Detail-oriented, excellent analytical skills, and a strong team player who works well with immediate and extended teams, and consistently puts the team above oneself.
A Day in the Life
As a Network Development Engineer, you will be responsible for creating high-level strategic initiatives, developing and driving project plans, anticipating bottlenecks, influencing external vendors and internal team roadmaps, providing escalation management, anticipating and making tradeoffs, and balancing business needs versus technical constraints.
The Right Candidate
We are looking for a technically bold individual who can thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment. You should be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and relish the idea of solving problems that haven't been solved at scale before. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience leading large projects and have an expert-level technical background in current networking technologies.