Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud platform that designs, delivers, and operates global cloud infrastructure. The Network Development Engineer will support the stability and sustainability of IP networks for the U.S. Intelligence Community, owning networking projects involving deployment, implementation, scaling, and optimization. The role also partners with infrastructure, systems, and software engineering teams on configuration standards, tools, product rollouts, and networking software operations.
Responsibilities
- As part of the Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) Network Operations, you’ll play a key role in driving the stability and sustainability of next-generation IP networks that support the U.S. Intelligence Community
- From the top of rack to the network core and everything in between, you’ll work with best-in-class Network Engineers to deliver simple, sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes and drive complex issues to resolution
- Using your experience with network and Unix systems engineering, you’ll be able to fully own and transform networking projects relating to deployment, implementation, scaling, and/or optimization
- As Network Development Engineer, you’ll partner with our broader 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
- Must be willing to support an off-hours operations escalation pager rotation
- Experience dealing with customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure
- The ability to sit in front of computer during scheduled work hours with appropriate breaks while maintaining a high level of alertness and attention to detail
- Travel to data center/network sites and Amazon/customer offices as needed
Skills
- • Must be willing to support an off-hours operations escalation pager rotation
- • Experience dealing with customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure
- • The ability to sit in front of computer during scheduled work hours with appropriate breaks while maintaining a high level of alertness and attention to detail
- • Travel to data center/network sites and Amazon/customer offices as needed
- The candidate selected must obtain and maintain a security clearance at the TS/SCI with polygraph level
- • 4+ years of major internet routing protocols experience
- • 4+ years of working in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- • Bachelor's degree, or CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) or CFR (CyberSec First Responder) or Cloud+ or GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional) or SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner)
- • Knowledge of networking protocols, to include HTTP(S), DNS, and TCP/IP
- • Experience in Agile methodologies and DevOps practices
- • 1+ years of automation scripting using Python, Bash, Shell and/or Perl experience
- • Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above
Benefits
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and an option for Supplemental life plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Mental Health Support
- Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Flexibility as part of the working culture
- Ongoing events and learning experiences, including Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences
- Mentorship and other career-advancing resources
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