Data Centre Network Engineer

About Inetum, Positive digital flow:

Inetum is an IT services company that provides digital services and solutions and a global group that helps companies and institutions to get the most out of digital flow. The Inetum group is committed towards all these players to innovate, continue to adapt and stay ahead. With its multi-expert profile, Inetum offers its clients a unique combination of proximity, a sectorial organization and solutions of industrial quality. Operating in more than 26 countries, the Group has nearly 27,000 employees and in 2020 generated revenues of €1,965 billion.

Inetum Romania is an important player in the IT services and solutions market in our country, with over 15 years of activity. It is a stable, growing and profitable company with over 500 employees who provides IT consulting services, infrastructure and software development assistance, digital services implementation and support.

In an Agile format, our teams work on cloud initiatives, application development, business intelligence, automation and digitalization projects that contribute to the profit and evolution of our clients. The diversity of our projects offers team members the opportunity for learning and growth. The company had a turnover of 20 million EURO in 2021.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

 Good knowledge of the Data Centre network infrastructure
 Good knowledge of Network equipment operation (Cisco router and switches, F5 Load Balancers and Juniper Firewalls) and of TCP/IP, Routing and switching Protocols
 Good knowledge of telecommunications network systems and their services
 Good knowledge of cloud and NFV technologies (ACI, OpenStack, NSX, …)
 Good knowledge of VCE (vBlock) and HPE (C7000) products
 Education level equivalent to a Bachelor degree
 Desired Vendor Certifications
 Cisco (CCNA, CCNP or CCIE)
 VMWare (certificates for vSphere, NSX, vRealize)
 HPE (certificates for data centre, SDN and cloud solutions)
 VCE (VCE-CIA, VCE-CIAE or VCE-CIMAE)
 F5 (BIG-IP Administrator, LTM Specialist)
 Desired: minimum 2 years’ experience with cloud and NFV technologies from Cisco, HPE and/or VMware
 Desired: minimum 4 years’ experience in data centre environment
 Desired: knowledge of scripting, network automation (Ansible) and programing (Python)

Key performance indicators:

 Implementation of changes and service requests within the customer guaranteed SLA’s;
 Manage and update information/documentation (i.e. LLD);
 Reports on assigned projects
 Incident caused by changes

Role purpose:

Delivery of data centre network configurations and implementations for Global Data Centres in order to support reliable and secure hosted and collaborative services across the whole company Network in Europe with focus on the services hosted in the managed datacenters.

Accountable for the Low-Level Design, network implementation, optimization, testing and quality assurance activities in the Global Data Centres (main managed network elements: routers, switches, load balancers, Cisco ACI, Firewalls, PKI, Proxies and services implementation over them). Responsible for IP connectivity implementation based on customer demand.

Manage relationships with the stakeholders, in particular operations, design, infrastructure and other customer teams for the implementation of configuration activities, special projects or the handling of emergencies.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

 Develop network configuration scripts for the Global Data Centre connectivity according the agreed design;
 Review design document;
 Align with the customer and design teams on the priority and type of connectivity needed;
 Ownership of the country Network Connectivity Low Level Designs as well as define; templates, modularize and industrialize configuration items and their implementation;
 Deploy the network fit for purpose including to understand how our services/applications layer will work across the network (capacity, capability, utilization);
 Deliver optimal implementation process that ensures quality;
 Decrease the design and implementation costs and to achieve a harmonized & simplified network infrastructure;
 Defining, planning and scheduling activities and interventions and support the Change Management Process;
 Quality assurance and optimization in the design and implementation process;
 Support, Test & Accept / Audit the deployed solution;
 Document the configuration change and also the rollback plan associated to each change;
 Network standardization across global datacenters;
 Drive network standards across Local markets;
 Drive + Support Network innovations;
 Actively influences operational efficiency and operability of the deployed connectivity solutions;
 Seeks clarification of risks before taking action to guarantee business continuity.

Benefits:

• Interesting salary conditions
• Undetermined period of contract
• Career plan (professional, academic and financial)
• Medical insurance
• Official training's and certifications
• Lunch tickets
• Work from home 2 days a week
• Yearly professional evaluation
• Professional and friendly working environment