Direct Connect Network Engineer — Scale, Automation & Reliability

Amazon Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited is seeking a Network Development Engineer to help deploy, scale, and automate one of the world’s largest networks for AWS Direct Connect in Dublin. You will work with multiple teams to enable efficient, reliable, and cost-effective network operations.

The role requires experience in automation and IP networking, with on-call responsibilities in a 24x7 environment. Travel to data centers and AWS/customer offices may be required as part of the job.

Qualifications

• Experience with automation or scripting languages such as Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Bash, or Shell.
• Experience with IP networking fundamentals and TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, and DHCP.
• Experience in routing protocols: TCP/IP, BGP, MPLS, ISIS and/or OSPF.
• Experience troubleshooting issues and root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain our next generation networks.
• Deliver simple, sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes.
• Work closely with our broader Network Engineering & Deployment teams to ensure operational readiness for new deployments.
• Drive standards across the network and ensure that we are fully compliant to those standards and policies.
• Participate and drive impact mitigation during large-scale events utilizing an established Event Management process.
• Drive event deep dives for large-scale events, deliver high-quality documentation for the events and drive corrective actions to completion.
• Improve our detection mechanisms by designing and implementing new alerts.
• Create and review documentation and process regarding recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc.
• Troubleshoot interconnectivity issues, including troubleshooting of network device configuration and low level application interaction.
• Identify and drive opportunities to repeatable tasks through creation and maintenance of scripts and tools.
• Travel to data center/network sites and Amazon/customer offices as needed.
• On-call rotation in a 24x7 team for critical events/needs.
• Manage customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure.

Skills

Automation scripting

IP networking fundamentals

TCP/IP / UDP / DNS / DHCP

Routing protocols (BGP/OSPF/ISIS)

Tools

Cisco IOS

Juniper Junos

Job description

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited is seeking a Network Development Engineer to help deploy, scale, and automate one of the world’s largest networks for AWS Direct Connect in Dublin. You will work with multiple teams to enable efficient, reliable, and cost-effective network operations.

The role requires experience in automation and IP networking, with on-call responsibilities in a 24x7 environment. Travel to data centers and AWS/customer offices may be required as part of the job.