Network Support Engineer, Leo Networking Software

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s Low Earth Orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

The Network Operations Center (NOC) team within Leo Networking Software is responsible for tier 1 support for software defined network services at Amazon Leo. You'll join a growing team of network operations engineers supporting Amazon Leo's global satellite network. Our services operate at scale and support workloads critical to customer network performance and availability, so a passion and discipline around operational excellence is key.

Export Control Requirement: This position may require access to information, technology, or hardware that is subject to export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Employment in this position is contingent upon obtaining any required export licenses or other approvals from the United States government. As such, the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain any necessary export licenses or approvals based on their nationality, citizenship, and any other factors considered by the applicable export control regulations.

Key job responsibilities
- Respond to and escalate network-related incidents in a timely manner, diagnosing and troubleshooting network issues including connectivity problems, performance degradation, and security concerns
- Support deployment and onboarding of network capabilities across geographic regions, assisting in the monitoring, testing, and reporting of new network infrastructure including satellites, gateway sites, and points of presence
- Monitor and investigate network performance to ensure maximum efficiency and operational uptime for customers
- Build and enhance tools, develop best practices, and refine operational procedures to measurably improve network operations
- Manage severity 2 and 3 tickets while attending on-call rotations during business hours and weekends
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including network, software, and security engineers

Basic qualifications

- 2+ years of software development, or 2+ years of technical support experience
- Experience scripting in modern program languages
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- 2+ years of technical support experience
- 2+ years of network engineering experience for large-scale networks, including diagnosing network impacting issues
- Experience with network monitoring and automation scripting using SQL, Python, or Bash
- In-depth understanding of cloud networking concepts

Preferred qualifications

- Knowledge of web services, distributed systems, and web application development
- Experience troubleshooting & maintaining hardware & software RAID
- Experience with REST web services, XML, JSON
- 2+ years of experience with satellite-based telecommunication networking
- Hands-on experience working with satellite software defined networking technologies, packet forwarding architectures, and connectivity issues
- Experience dealing effectively with partner teams during problem resolution and collaborating efficiently as a team
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent, or experience with networking and troubleshooting (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, firewalls, LAN/WAN, traceroute, iperf, dig, cURL or related) at an advanced level

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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