Cloud Networking Engineer: Build & Scale Infrastructure

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch) is seeking a Network Development Engineer to build and operate the world’s largest cloud network. You will lead projects, automate operations, and ensure scalable, reliable networking at Amazon scale in the UK.

You’ll work with cutting-edge tools, collaborate across teams, and own solutions from planning to delivery, with a focus on cost efficiency and performance. UK security clearance may be required.

Qualifications

• A relevant degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent experience in a large-scale network environment.
• Experience in a network focused hands-on technical role working with routing protocols/technologies and platforms in large scale data centre and/or WAN environments.
• Experience developing engineering, deployment, or operations mechanisms to support IP networking systems.
• Experience in a technical on-call capacity, responding to customer impacting events, mitigating and root cause analysis of those events.
• Knowledge & experience of interacting with many network devices at a time through any of networking configuration tools, Infrastructure as Code or scripting.

Responsibilities

• Leading network projects in the areas of network sustaining engineering, deployment/implementation, network scaling, technology refresh, best practices application, and/or network optimization.
• Influencing our operations function, responding to customer impact events and requests, troubleshooting, and fixing and improving the automation that runs our network.
• Analysing the network using tools and metrics to ensure it is operating correctly, safely and securely.
• Investigating technical issues scientifically and thoroughly, and assist in fixing complex problems so they don't come back.
• Successfully planning, delivering and simplifying new systems, processes, and tools to better deliver for our customers.
• Delivering sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes, optimising and removing bottlenecks.
• Understanding new and upcoming networking systems and developing ways of safely implementing them into our environment.

Skills

Routing protocols

IP networking

On-call experience

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline

Tools

Python

Shell

Job description

Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch) is seeking a Network Development Engineer to build and operate the world’s largest cloud network. You will lead projects, automate operations, and ensure scalable, reliable networking at Amazon scale in the UK.

You’ll work with cutting-edge tools, collaborate across teams, and own solutions from planning to delivery, with a focus on cost efficiency and performance. UK security clearance may be required.