Job Title: Network Design Engineer - Core focused.
Location: Brick Lane, UK
Position type: Hybrid
Pay type: £500- 540 per day Inside IR35
Duration: 6 months
Work timing: Standard working hours - 9 am to 5 pm, expected to be attending the office two days per week.
What you'll do:
- Elicit business and technical requirements by working with the various stakeholders during the requirements gathering phase.
- Author both high-level and low-level design documents to support Telco services including presenting such designs for internal technical and stakeholder sign-off.
- Own software/hardware selection, perform bug scrubs and security vulnerability assessments, and work with test and implementation engineers to review test plans, defects, test reports, MOP and change tickets.
- Participate in vendor selection by providing technical requirements into the RFP document and by doing technical evaluation including Technical Proof of Concept testing.
- Steer network elements' feature roadmap by working closely with our strategic technology partners for software release planning, and budget submissions and provide inputs for business case preparation.
- Drive platform improvements, enable automation, and implement new solutions that enable DevOps capabilities and support the business strategy of building once and deploying multiple times.
Must have skills:
- IP networking and Routing/Switching such as MPLS, LDP, ISIS, BGP, ACL's, and QoS
- Good understanding of Cisco IOS-XR product lines such as ASR9K, NCS5K
- CCNP Service Provider certified.
Good to have skills:
- Ability to apply Open-config and Vendor-specific NETCONF-YANG models, JSON, and XML payload for network automation to configure and manage routers would be advantageous.
- Solid understanding of Python, Ansible, and config management via GIT
- ISP subscriber technology experience such as Nokia SROS, BNG, IPoE, PPPoE.
