Network Development Engineer — Large-Scale Cloud Networking

Amazon.com; Dublin; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s AWS Direct Connect team is seeking a Network Development Engineer to design, deploy, and automate large-scale networks connecting customer premises to the AWS cloud. You will work with diverse engineers to deliver scalable, reliable connectivity across data centers globally.

This role requires scripting, routing expertise, and on-call readiness in a 24x7 environment, with opportunities to drive standards, improve monitoring, and contribute to cost-efficient network operations.

Qualifications

• Experience with automation or scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.).
• Experience with IP networking fundamentals and TCP/IP, UDP, DNS & DHCP.
• Experience with internet routing protocols (BGP, MPLS, ISIS, 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 compliance 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.

Skills

Scripting (Python/Bash)

IP Networking

Routing Protocols (BGP/OSPF)

Troubleshooting

Automation concepts

Job description

Amazon’s AWS Direct Connect team is seeking a Network Development Engineer to design, deploy, and automate large-scale networks connecting customer premises to the AWS cloud. You will work with diverse engineers to deliver scalable, reliable connectivity across data centers globally.

This role requires scripting, routing expertise, and on-call readiness in a 24x7 environment, with opportunities to drive standards, improve monitoring, and contribute to cost-efficient network operations.