Optical Networking Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Amazon; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Core Networking team in Sydney is hiring an Optical Network Development Engineer to build and scale networks across multiple data centers, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost efficiency for AWS customers.

You will collaborate with software, hardware, and operations teams, lead network deployment and engineering efforts, and own documentation and operational processes to keep our global optical backbone secure and future-proof.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of Linux/Unix experience.
• 4+ years of optical planning and modeling tools.
• 4+ years of optical network design and troubleshooting.
• 1+ year of Python or similar scripting for network automation.

Responsibilities

• Create and implement changes on the network.
• Lead network projects in sustaining engineering, deployment, scaling, or optimization.
• Sustain AWS networks for large customers by diagnosing and resolving events.
• Operate and troubleshoot routing, interconnectivity, platforms, and configurations.
• Collaborate with automation teams to scale tooling; define network tooling requirements.
• Document deployments and establish standards and procedures.

Skills

Linux/Unix

Optical planning tools

Optical network design

Python scripting

Education

Relevant technical degree

Job description

Amazon's AWS Core Networking team in Sydney is hiring an Optical Network Development Engineer to build and scale networks across multiple data centers, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost efficiency for AWS customers.

You will collaborate with software, hardware, and operations teams, lead network deployment and engineering efforts, and own documentation and operational processes to keep our global optical backbone secure and future-proof.