Optical NDE II, Optical Long Haul Network Deployment

Amazon; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services is seeking an Optical Network Development Engineer to support and deploy a vast DWDM network. You will design optical solutions, drive scaling, and collaborate with field teams to ensure reliable, cost-efficient infrastructure across AWS global services.

A strong emphasis on automation, monitoring, and operational excellence drives day-to-day impact. The team focuses on cutting-edge transport, metro and long-haul deployments, with opportunities to influence vendor selection

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technology field and relevant experience.
• 4+ years' experience with major DWDM platforms.
• 4+ years' experience with optical planning and hands-on implementation.
• Experience with rollout of large DWDM networks.

Responsibilities

• Design of optical solutions, hands-on to support deployment and manage rollout of AWS global DWDM network.
• Drive optical scaling tasks including fiber quality reviews and generate cutsheets and configs to meet AWS demand.
• Define and configure management solution to support optical network remote monitoring.
• Collaborate with AWS Networking teams to ensure timely scaling of optics for business needs.
• Review and implement changes on optical systems using CLI or automated scripts.
• Ensure deployment tasks adhere to AWS network standards.
• Execute tasks following operational excellence standards and improve DWDM quality and reliability.
• Design scalable operational processes to sustain and expand optical network infrastructure.
• Lead end-to-end product evaluation and drive vendor selection and cost efficiency.
• Troubleshoot complex problems and propose innovative deployment improvements.
• Lead and execute programs that raise optical network performance and reduce incidents.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

DWDM experience

Optical planning

Network design

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technology field

Tools

DWDM platforms

Optical planning tools

Job description

Description

Do you like to use networking concepts and system development engineering to deliver simple, sustainable and repeatable solutions? Would you like your work to play a key role in driving the stability and sustainability of next-generation IP networks?

Amazon Web Services is looking for an Optical Network Development Engineer to support and deploy one of the world\'s largest and most complex telecommunication networks. Our goal is to become "The Infrastructure Platform" to the world and customers demand the highest quality and reliability for their services. As we expand at a tremendous rate it is our responsibility to maintain that quality and reliability. We look for innovative ways to automate and scale our network as we expand, while driving complex issues to resolution.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we\’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain – and we\’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You\’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You\’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you\’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Key job responsibilities

• Design of optical solutions, hands-on to support deployment and manage rollout of AWS global DWDM network;
• Drive optical scaling tasks including fiber quality reviews and generate cutsheets and configs to meet the demand of AWS customers;
• Define and configure management solution to support optical network remote monitoring and device visibility;
• Work closely with other AWS Networking teams (field tech and fiber teams) to ensure optical network is scaled in time to support business;
• Review and implement changes on optical systems using manual CLI config or automated process via script;
• Ensure that optical network deployment tasks adhere to the defined AWS network standards;
• Execute implementation tasks following operational excellence standards and propose improvements in AWS DWDM network quality and reliability;
• Design and implement scalable operational processes to sustain and expand our optical network infrastructure;
• Lead end-to-end product evaluation and drive strategic commercial tender processes, ensuring optimal vendor selection and cost efficiency
• Troubleshoot complex problems on optical networks and eventually propose innovative solutions to improve the deployment agility;
• Lead and execute operational excellence programs that measurably improve DWDM network quality and reliability, reducing service-impacting events and raising the bar on optical network performance;

A day in the life

This role oversees deployment of Metro and Long Haul systems and all processes related to those deliverables. It includes the design of the projects, generation of all technical documents, updating internal tools, deployment of systems in the real network and handover for operations. Also the deployment team is responsible to participate in testing new solutions and define technical requirements. Automation is a very important topic in this team to improve the deployment process, reduce the manual activities and make interaction between internal tools.

About the team

Internet Edge provides high-performing Internet connectivity for a wide range of use cases, such as retail (amazon.com), video streaming (Prime Video), content delivery (CloudFront), DNS (Route53), AWS services (such as EC2/S3), consumer devices (such as FireTV/Kindle/Echo), and more.

Within AWS Networking, the Internet Edge organization is responsible for connecting Amazon to the global Internet. With connections to thousands of unique external networks in hundreds of locations across the world, our mission is to deliver an Internet connectivity experience that sets the global standard for performance, availability, security, and cost, making Amazon the clear choice for our customers\’s needs.

The Long Haul Deployment team is responsible for the installation and commissioning of the DWDM systems for Optical Backbone. Our mission is to deliver unconstrained inter-regional transport at the lowest cost, with the most available product conceivable to AWS customers, making it invisible. The team vends capacity to internet backbone customers that provides low latency, high availability and supports features our customers expect.

Diverse Experiences

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Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor\'s degree or equivalent in a technology field
• 4+ years\' experience with major DWDM platforms;
• 4+ years\' experience with optical planning, modelling tools and hands-on implementation;
• Experience with the rollout of large DWDM networks in Metro and Long Haul spaces;

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Knowledge of network design, protocols and Layer 1/2 troubleshooting
• Experience with optical planning and modelling tools; and the rollout of large DWDM networks.
• Optical network design, planning and implementation skills;

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