Network Development Engineer, DCNE - Sydney

Job Description

Amazon is looking to hire highly motivated Network Engineers to help design, deploy and automate one of the worlds largest and most complex networks. With Amazon Web Services, our goal is to become “The Infrastructure Platform“ to the world and our customers demand the highest quality and reliability for their services. We are expanding at a tremendous rate and our goal is to design, deploy and automate network delivery while maintaining the highest reliability for our customers. Our teams scale the existing network, design new topologies, deploy these topologies and also automate activities where possible.


Key job responsibilities
- Deploy network infrastructure across all of our network fabrics that supports the Amazon Retail Service, Kindle, Payments and multiple AWS services
- Design, deploy, and scale our network across multiple global datacenters (including existing and new locations)
- Create and automate deployment processes that increase quality and velocity
- Collaborate with our internal customers on designs/solutions and bring them from concept to production
- Develop and update our network standards and ensure that the network is deployed to these standards
- Create and implement changes on the live network
- Work closely with our software teams in defining the tools that allow us to scale at unprecedented volume
- Create and review documentation regarding new standard operating procedures and process improvement
- Work with data sets related to DC and networking infrastructure, network utilisation, traffic demands and forecasts
- Developing metrics related to health, availability and cost of the network in AWS regions
- Determine what the best network topologies and designs are to minimize cost and latency while ensuring high availability, security and performance, using simulation and optimization tools
- Automate all aspects of extending and scaling our networks, including planning
- The successful candidate is highly autonomous, possesses strong written and verbal communication skills, strong project management and time management skills and has a successful track record of designing simple, scalable solutions and troubleshooting complex network problems and delivering innovative solutions. The desire and ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment is essential.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Sydney, NSW, AUS

Basic Qualifications:

Major internet routing protocols experience through network layers 1-4
Working in a Linux/Unix environment experience
Experience planning and deploying high capacity DWDM and Optical systems
Experience analysing datasets e.g. using SQL, R, Python and providing valuable insights
Automation scripting using Python, Bash, Shell and/or Perl experience
Lead improvements in existing processes and identify opportunities to enhance or develop new processes
Experience working in a highly available network and highly operationally aware

Preferred Qualifications:

Enhance existing automations tools and identify solutions to complex network deployment problems at scale
System Design experience with ability to work and innovate on proof of concepts which can be developed with software teams into production ready systems
Experience with simulating and modelling network traffic demands/forecasts along with network failure modelling and resiliency planning.
Experience with optimisation methods and software, constraint modelling.
Publish simple and concise High/Low level designs which will maintain a healthy and highly redundant network.

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.