Cloud Networking Engineer - Scale & Automation

Amazon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Network Development Engineer to design, build, and operate the world’s largest cloud networking infrastructure. You will lead projects spanning sustaining engineering, deployment, scaling and technology refresh, while driving automation and best practices across the network.

The role requires analytical thinking, collaboration and a passion for delivering reliable cloud services.

Qualifications

• Degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent experience in a large-scale network environment.
• Hands-on experience 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, network 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

WAN/LAN networking

IP networking

Network security

Scripting (Python)

Infrastructure as Code

Linux/Unix

TCP/IP

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Network Development Engineer to design, build, and operate the world’s largest cloud networking infrastructure. You will lead projects spanning sustaining engineering, deployment, scaling and technology refresh, while driving automation and best practices across the network.

The role requires analytical thinking, collaboration and a passion for delivering reliable cloud services.