Network Development Engineer , OTIE Networks Ops & Reliability

Come join a creative team of Operations Technology Engineers that builds the wired and wireless networks that power Amazon fulfillment centers and transportation sites worldwide.

These networks are used by hundreds of thousands of associates, relied upon by operators of industry-leading fulfillment and transportation systems, and play a critical role in the delivery of shipments to Amazon retail customers.

We are looking for Network Development Engineers to provide technical thought leadership in the design of our next-generation networks.

As we look to the future, our networks will support an ecosystem of robotics, industrial IoT, sensors, drones, and mobile devices.

You are comfortable with making data motivated decisions, and iterating on designs that may fail at the outset to ultimately deliver robust systems that elegantly scale.

Information security and network reliability are at the core of your thought processes.

Flexible working

This position is Austin / Nashville office-based, with the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week in line with Amazon’s current flexible work guidance.

Amazon encourages open communication about unique needs for flexible arrangements.

The team operates a follow-the-sun on-call rotation, with a frequency of one week on call in every five weeks. The rotation is day-time only during working hours Monday to Sunday, with handoffs between the India, Dublin, and North America (NA) teams.

The on-call engineer represents the Network Reliability team during event with customer impact in production and coordinates efforts to quickly mitigate customer impact across these regions.

Career Growth

We care about your career aspirations and tailor your development to your unique abilities. We want you to grow and progress in Amazon.

We will facilitate your growth through an increase in scope of the projects you work on over time, and include in projects for partner teams to experience new and interesting challenges.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work on operational readiness, software development and testing, driving operational excellence and cross-cutting initiatives among others.

Key job responsibilities

Fungible

A day in the life

In this role you will operate the largest fulfillment network in the world, and provide guidance to and mentoring to network support teams to develop their skills and reinforce best practices.

Network reliability is critical to Amazon Operations, and your responsibilities will include driving root cause resolution of network events most impact-full to the business.

About the team

The OTIE Ops & Reliability Team has broad scope supporting multiple business units globally, from the smallest delivery stations in emerging markets, to the most advanced automated fulfillment centers in North America, Japan, and Europe.

As a result, this group enjoys variety in both short term innovation and long-term strategic projects. This is a unique opportunity that will enable you to grow your skills as an engineer, have a lasting impact on Amazon’s fulfillment networks for years to come.

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

Austin, TX, USA Nashville, TN, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of major internet routing protocols experience
• 4+ years of working in a Linux / Unix environment experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 1+ years of automation scripting using Python, Bash, Shell and / or Perl experience
30+ days ago