Amazon Sr Satellite Network Engineer Project Kuiper 

United States, Washington 

530237145

As a Satellite/Payload Integration and Test Network Engineer, you will be responsible for the Kuiper system data-path/network verification, support the implementation and validation sign-off of various software interface requirements and modem architectures. You will be working in a collaborative environment with a multi-disciplinary team and 3rd party partners from development to productization of various Kuiper products.
Export Control Requirement:national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the
U.S. as a refugee or granted asylumKey job responsibilities
• Conceptualize and execute a test campaign with specific focus on network functionality and performance. Engage with systems, hardware, and software development engineering teams to accomplish the following in pursuit of network integration and testing: capture requirements, define use cases, work backwards from product strategy.
• End to end network, data and control plane testing to include ground ,satellite and customer terminals.
• Troubleshoot and root cause networking, throughput and packet loss issues across the system
• Support and reproduce on orbit networking and data plane issues in the lab.
• Utilize AWS cloud resources as well as commercial-off-the-shelf test equipment: program, instrument, and automate.
• Draft and maintain high quality documentation for program-level feedback: test verification matrix, status tracking, test runs for record.
• Enhance testing efficiency by automating test execution and analysis.
Positions open in Redmond/San Diego. If hired in San Diego, CA upto 30% travel to Redmond, WA is required.

- 10+ years of hands-on networking experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering or equivalent experience
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP,QoS and VLANs
- Strong Linux skills including shell scripting and command-line operations
- Experience with Linux-based networking tools and utilities
- Experience working with the cloud and services (AWS preferred)
- Hands-on experience with Wireshark, Iperf and other industry standard traffic and analysis tools
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Master's/PhD degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering or related discipline.
- Software defined network implementations and network protocol extension
- 3+ years with satellite and/or cellular network testing
- Programming in an object-oriented language (Python preferred)
- Linux system administration experience
- Experience building and maintaining networks, coordinating handoffs, provisioning resources
- Strong experience with AWS, Azure, VMware, or Docker/Kubernetes for cloud-based networking.
- Strong knowledge of IPv6 and routing protocols
- Network load testing, stress testing, L2 and L3 testing, L4 through L7 testing