This week we add more jobs to our NetEng Job Board 📢; land your first Network Engineering role 💼; dive deep into DNS best practices in AWS 🐳; use Network Vista to diff and compliance check networks ✅; use NetBench to swamp our WAN links 🔗; go full on AI or Die 🦾; learn SCION for Internet-aware Path Routing 🧑💻; use NotebookLM to prep for an interview 📘; get familiar with NIST post-quantum standards 🔫 and never get down-levelled in our Performance Review ever again ✊. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
Landing Your First Network Engineering Role is certainly harder than it used to be, but actually there are more non-traditional ways in than ever before, including GitHub and YouTube 🎥
DNS: A Deep Dive in AWS Resources & Best Practices to Adopt brings DNS to AWS, using Terraform, IaC and DNSSEC - breaks it, reconfigures it and makes it work again ❤️🩹
Why The Classic DMZ/Secure Zone Design Is Worthless in Azure because the NIC is the router in Azure, not the Network Fabric 🛌
Network Vista is a network data collection and compliance platform and is worth a look if you want to diff your Meraki or other Network infra as a Source of Reference 🥫
NetBench is a packet-level simulator, focused on modelling congestion and queueing especially useful if you want to introduce loss, errors or emulate real world conditions in WAN or SD-WAN deployments 💺
An Introduction to Jinja2 for Network Automation if you’re just entering the world of NetDevOps (or even some parts of DevOps or Web Development), this is for you - get those moustache variables out 🥸
My 5 Common Mistakes in Network Automation with Python so you don’t have to make them in your NetDevOps work ❌
Learning 🎓
SCION: Secure Path-Aware Internet Routing
(Video, 28 mins, Advanced)Current status of fibre optic dispute and FTTH rollout in Switzerland
(Video, 23 mins, Beginner)Network Automagic 002 - Infrahub with Damien Garros
(Video, 1 hour, Intermediate)Using NotebookLM to prepare for an interview
(Video, 5 mins, Beginner)Interoperability from an ipv4 to ipv6-only core with SR-MPLS
(Video, 28 mins, Intermediate)
Hiring 💼
📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is finally here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.
It’s also free to list a job if you’re hiring and want to let us know 👂
🔥 This week’s Hot Hirings
🇺🇸 IP Architect @ Nokia, USA, TX/CO/CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ SpaceX, USA, WA
🇬🇧 Lead IP Engineer @ Gamma, UK, Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Engineer Apprentice @ Vodafone, UK, London
🇮🇪 Network Implementation Engineer @ Google, Ireland, Dublin
🇮🇳 Azure Network Specialist @ PepsiCo, Permie, India, Hyderabad
🇨🇦 Senior Network Service Engineer @ Equinix, Permie, Canada, Toronto
NotEng 🤔
AI or Die is certainly a strong point of view of the future to come, but the race to see what happens with everything including our livelihoods is on 🏎️
The future belongs to people who can just do things in a world of AI, creativity and cohesity are more important than knowing how to do a thing 🦾
10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design that are worth a read even if you’re just doing a simple Flask Web App for your Network Automation efforts 👶
NIST’s first post-quantum standards are coming, so soon it won’t just be AES256 when the CRQC comes along to rock your IPsec VPN world; Diffie Helman Group 9,999 it is! 🧮
Willingness to look stupid will see you in good stead throughout your working life (and home life); remember, you don’t know what you don’t know - so if you never ask you’ll never know 💡
A 3-step framework to never get down-leveled in your behavioural interviews again as that time of year comes around for the Personal Development Plan and Appraisal, meet it head on for a change 🤘
Greppability is an underrated code metric that actually matters tonnes more than arbitrary ones like “lines of code” 🔎
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
Hat-tip to Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the tip-offs 👍
Managing Operational Drift with NetBox Assurance, Virtual, 25 March 2025
Peering Days 2025, Split, 25 - 27 March 2025
FRnOG 41, Paris, 28 March 2025
Cloudflare Connect 2025, London, 10 April 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
OCP EMEA Summit, Dublin, 29 - 30 April 2025
CHI-NOG 12, Chicago, 15 May 2025
RIPE 90, Lisbon, 12 - 16 May 2025
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
Industry 🏭
GCP brings BGP route policies to Cloud Router read on if this is useful to you for not running a VNF/NFV appliance in GCP ☁️
Configuring OIC Gen3 Private Endpoint for Outbound Connectivity to External Private Resources dives deep into Networking in OCI Cloud, including their Endpoint and SQL constructs 👩💻
AWS Network Load Balancer now supports removing availability zones as prior to this it was a one-way street to grow your AZs only 📈
Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes and has a cool AI tool-inspired name, but there’s nothing cool about how it’s working 🤖
Fortinet confirms data breach after hacker claims to steal 440GB of files in a FortiBad FortiAttack that FortiSucks if you’re affected (Forti) 🔥
Cisco Says AI Networking Is Just Another Workload and we’re inclined to agree, apart from that it also eats itself for breakfast and the surrounding engineers that keep it running 👹
How we migrated GOV.UK Notify to AWS Elastic Container Service is the most modern thing we’ve read out of UK Gov for a long while 👓
That’s all for this week, but if you have any tip-offs, blogs, events or job posts you’d like us to feature then please feel free to let us know at newsletter@reloadin.net 📮 and we’ll see if we can add them in 💬.