Wireless Network Dev Engineer, Corporate Network Engineering

Do you like to use network and Unix systems engineering to deliver simple, sustainable and repeatable solutions? Would you like to play a key role in driving the stability and sustainability of next-generation IP networks?

Amazon Corporate Network Engineering team owns the design, planning, and delivery of all Amazon corporate office network infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the keep all the Amazon offices connected. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the Amazonian productivity - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.

You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across Amazon 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.

You'll join a diverse team of network, Security, wireless and automation engineers, along side program and engineering manager, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across Amazon to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing high available office network 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.

The Corporate Network Engineering Organization is looking for a Network Development Engineer to join our Core Engineering team. Network Development Engineers partner with our broader corporate network Infrastructure organization on configurations standards and tools, and collaborate with Systems and Software Engineers to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products, and also deploy and sustain networking software tools.

Key job responsibilities

Wireless Network Development Engineers perform high quality network and/or systems operations, deployments, scaling, technology refresh, sustaining engineering, best practices application, optimization, internal/external customer interactions, and produce appropriate technical documentation.

• Design and build innovative, multi-vendor data connectivity solutions to support Amazon's growth worldwide.
• Drive scaling current network designs to meet the demand of our customers
• Work with vendors and cross-functional teams for on-going design efforts and systems support.
• Work closely with our internal customers to help alleviate their problems and ensure our network continues to meet their demands
• Drive operational excellence projects to drive improvements in our network quality and reliability
• Work closely with our teams to assist in defining the tools we require
• Create simple processes that help operate and build our network

A day in the life

Engineers in Corporate Network Engineering organization have a wide range

of responsibilities: we work with internal partners to develop and implement the next gen platforms

along with the tooling ecosystems to support with these platforms driving efficiency and scalability

through the automation of builds, configuration deployment, and the scaling of capacity. As our

network is one of the largest in the world, there is no blue print at our scale allowing our engineers to

develop solutions to the complex challenges that we face daily. We encourage durable solutions that

look around corners while taking into consideration our customer needs from a cost, performance, and

reliability perspective. Our team develops tooling that provides the required visibility and control of

traffic across the network, while prioritizing the automatic mitigation of events to minimize the impact to our customers.

• Work in a 24x7 team on call rotation, with ability to drive into workplace for critical events/needs.
• Manage customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure.
• Sit at the computer during scheduled work hours with appropriate breaks while maintaining a high level of alertness and attention to detail.

About the team

As a part of Corporate Network Engineering team, we are responsible for Corporate offices design and Edge Network which connects 500+ remote offices to the Enterprise core network as well as into AWS cloud. We own the network standards, deployment mechanisms, automation and delivery of large programs, including AWS VPC transit gateway based networks that connect our traditional networks to Native AWS.