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Optical Network Development Engineer, Core Networking

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About the role

Optical Network Development Engineer on the Core Networking Inter-Data Center & Optical team responsible for building, deploying and scaling AWS networks across multiple global datacenters, focusing on optical planning/design, sustaining engineering, and collaboration with automation and software teams to maintain high availability and cost-efficient connectivity.

Responsibilities

  • Create and implement changes on the network.
  • Work closely with our automation teams in defining the tools that allow us to scale at higher volume.
  • Lead network projects in the areas of network sustaining engineering, network deployment/implementation, network scaling, technology refresh, best practices application, and/or network optimization.
  • Sustain Amazon Web Services’ next generation networks for significant AWS customers by providing critical network support to diagnose, mitigate impact, and resolve large-scale networking events.
  • Operate and troubleshoot network routing, interconnectivity, platforms, performance, and configurations issues; including necessary low-level application interaction, Unix systems, and new age networking software tools.
  • Drive and support innovation from Top of Rack to the Network Border and everything in between.
  • Partner with our broader Network/Infrastructure organization in the areas of network engineering, configurations standards, and tools.
  • Work closely with our Network/Systems/Software Engineering teams to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products, as well as assist with deployment and sustaining of networking software tools.
  • Maintain standards across the networking toolset and ensure that we are fully compliant to those standards and policies.
  • Deliver simple, sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes.
  • Collaborate with highest tier escalation engineers/resolvers.
  • Create and review documentation and process regarding network implementation/deployments, recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of working in a Linux/Unix environment experience
  • 4+ years of experience with optical planning and modeling tools.
  • 4+ years of experience with optical network design and troubleshooting.
  • 1+ years of professional development experience with Python or a similar tool for network automation scripting.

Skills

Required:Linux/Unix environmentOptical planning and modeling toolsOptical network design and troubleshootingPython or network automation scripting
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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