Do you like to use network and Unix systems engineering to deliver simple, sustainable and repeatable solutions? Would you like to play a key role in driving the stability and sustainability of next-generation IP networks?
Amazon Corporate Network Engineering team owns the design, planning, and delivery of all Amazon corporate office network infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the keep all the Amazon offices connected. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the Amazonian productivity — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.
You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across Amazon to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
You’ll join a diverse team of network, Security, wireless and automation engineers, along side program and engineering manager, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across Amazon to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing high available office network at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
The Corporate Network Engineering Organization is looking for a wireless Network Development Engineer to join our Core Engineering team. Network Development Engineers partner with our broader corporate network Infrastructure organization on configurations standards and tools, and collaborate with Systems and Software Engineers to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products, and also deploy and sustain networking software tools. .
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you would like to request an accommodation for the interview or onboarding process, please let us know and we will connect you to our accommodation team. You may also reach them directly by visiting https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Key job responsibilities
Wireless Network Development Engineers perform high quality network and/or systems operations, deployments, scaling, technology refresh, sustaining engineering, best practices application, optimization, internal/external customer interactions, and produce appropriate technical documentation.
• Design and build innovative, multi-vendor data connectivity solutions to support Amazon’s growth worldwide.
• Drive scaling current network designs to meet the demand of our customers
• Work closely with our internal and external customers to help alleviate their problems and ensure our network continues to meet their demands
• Drive operational excellence projects to drive improvements in our network quality and reliability
• Automating the deployment of network devices gateways using infrastructure as a code across all of our network fabrics using automation such as CDK, Python.
• 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
Engineers in Corporate Network Engineering organization have a wide range
of responsibilities: we work with internal partners to develop and implement the next gen platforms
along with the tooling ecosystems to support with these platforms driving efficiency and scalability
through the automation of builds, configuration deployment, and the scaling of capacity. As our
network is one of the largest in the world, there is no blue print at our scale allowing our engineers to
develop solutions to the complex challenges that we face daily. We encourage durable solutions that
look around corners while taking into consideration our customer needs from a cost, performance, and
reliability perspective. Our team develops tooling that provides the required visibility and control of
traffic across the network, while prioritizing the automatic mitigation of events to minimize the impact to our customers.
• Work in a 24x7 team on call rotation, with ability to drive into workplace for critical events/needs.
• Manage customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure.
• Sit at the computer during scheduled work hours with appropriate breaks while maintaining a high level of alertness and attention to detail.
About the team
As a part of Amazon Corporate Network Automation, we are responsible for Edge Network which connects 500+ remote offices to the 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.
We also own writing the automation for automatic deployment of configuration and Operating systems to scale of 10k's of devices in the Enterprise network.
- 4+ years of working in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- 4+ years of major internet routing protocols experience
- 4+ years of automation scripting using Python, Bash, Shell and/or Perl experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Knowledge of RF /Survey, RF Planning and Optimization.
- Experience with IP networking fundamentals and TCP/IP, UDP, DNS & DHCP
- Experience working with networks, IT infrastructure, or system integration
- Experience in Linux and Networking protocols, or experience in web security and experience in Network protocols like DNS/DHCP/TCP
- Experience with current and upcoming RF standards in cellular (4G/5G), WiMAX, 802.11ad, microwave backhaul, DVB-S2 / DVB-C, or related broadband wireless standards
- Knowledge of wireless security - .1x, RADIUS, WPA2, EAP-TLS, PSK, general PKI concepts
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