Senior Network Engineer/Architect, Amazon Web Services Job in Seattle, Washington US
Senior Network Engineer/Architect, Amazon Web Services
-- Senior Network Engineer/Architect, Amazon Web Services Job ID: 171177 Location: US-WA-Seattle Posted Date: 3/19/2012 Company: Amazon Corporate LLC Position Category: IT Position Details Job Description Do you consider yourself one of the best Network Engineers or Network Architects in the industry? Would you like the opportunity to be even better and face unparalleled, yet fascinating challenges? Do you want to work on one of the world's most complex networks in a very challenging environment - yet one that is conducive to learning? Amazon.com has continued to grow and evolve as one of the original Internet pioneers. Want to know what are we're up to today? Take everything you know about Amazon.com and turn it inside out. Were taking all the amazing technology that Amazon is built on and exposing it to our customers. Storage, Compute, and a full suite of virtualized services are all part of the Amazon product line called Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com). It's a platform that's ready for anything you can dream up -- from your New Zealand travel blog to the next eCommerce Mega-Site on hosted services within the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or, your next multi-terabyte online storage repository in Simple Storage Services (S3). Our goal is to become "The Infrastructure Platform" to the world... and our customers are already lining up. So what does this mean to be an Infrastructure Engineer in Amazon's AWS Infrastructure Group? Basic Qualifications A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is mandatory. Excellent IP networking fundamentals and extensive experience in the application of IP protocols. In-depth knowledge of and experience with major internet routing protocols; specifically BGP (confederations and complex route reflector topologies), OSPF, and ISIS Understanding and experience with Internet peering ecosystems and Internet scale traffic engineering is a must In-depth knowledge of and experience with major router platforms; specifically with Cisco 37xx, 49xx, 65xx, 76xx, ASR9k, CRS; Juniper MX, EX, and T-series platforms including all compatible processors and line cards for these platforms. Excellent network analysis fundamentals and robust troubleshooting skills. Troubleshooting traffic engineering using BGP and large scale network design and maintenance is critical. Candidates should also have had significant past experience with, and expertise in many of the following protocols technologies: DWDM, SONET/SDH, 10G, 40G/100G Futures, 802.2/3, 802.1d VLANs/STP, IP, TCP (internals flow control), BGP, OSPF, ISIS, HSRP/GLBP, PIMv2, IGMP, LDP, RSVP-TE, TACACS, IPSEC VPNs, netflow, DNS, HTTP. Experience designing network and datacenter installations utilizing L2 and L3 protocols is highly desired. Strong Unix skills and the ability to script in Perl, shell, C or C++ is desirable. Preferred Qualifications Candidates should have a minimum of 5 years industry experience in a similar environment. Background in high availability, global backbone design and architecture is highly preferred Understanding of Hardware Load Balancers in a large data center environment Experience with mission critical multicast systems is preferred. Expert-level certifications (e.g. CCIE, JNCIE) a huge plus.