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. The location is open to Seattle, WA.

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Optical Deployment Engineer working within AWS Infrastructure you will:

• Design, build and rollout our global DWDM networks;
• Drive scaling designs to meet the demand of our customers;
• Create processes that help operate and build our optical network;
• Work closely with other Networking teams;
• Evaluate new products and drive commercial tender process;
• Ensure that the optical network adheres to the defined network standards;
• Review and implement changes on the optical systems;
• Drive operational excellence projects to drive improvements in our DWDM network quality and reliability;
• Troubleshoot complex problems and develop innovative solutions day to day on our network.
  Our ideal 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 troubleshooting complex network problems and delivering innovative solutions. The desire and ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment is essential. This is an amazing opportunity in terms of responsibility, interesting challenges and high visibility.

A day in the life
This role oversees deployment of 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
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.

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of major internet routing protocols experience
• 5+ years' experience with major DWDM platforms;
• 3+ years' Experience with optical planning and modelling tools;
• Experience with the rollout of large DWDM networks.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of automation scripting using Python, Bash, Shell and/or Perl experience
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Strong Unix skills;
• Ability to script/program in a language are highly desirable;
• Knowledge of L2 switching and L3 routing is desirable;
• Optical network design, planning and implementation skills;
• Team mentoring and technical team leadership experience;
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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