DC Network Operations & Implementation Engineer

Vauban joined the GFI Group at the beginning of January 2019. With more than 450 consultants in Romania, Vauban is a leading provider of IT services and innovative applications. Created in 2007, the company has experienced strong growth and has established itself as a reference partner for key accounts in the Banking, Telecom, Industry and Energy sectors.

Short company description




Vauban is a GFI Company Group with more than 10 years of sustainable and healthy growth. We do focus on innovation, learning, entrepreneurship and capacity to find new solutions. The company figures are +19000 consultants, having locations in over 20 countries with 20 shared service centers.

Our teams daily deliver Technology Services as consultancy (missions at clients’ premises), and also from our delivery center (integration & application development in digital and BI, Software as a Service management, Production, security and infrastructure).

Vauban is also the Romanian partner with Top premium software editors, leader in data governance and security, being responsible to integrate the solutions and to ensure local support.

Role purpose:

The GO Data Centre Network Operations Specialist is responsible for the daily operations and E2E infrastructure implementation of the GDC Data Centre Network Infrastructure and technologies across company. He is part of an international team that provide 24/7 service coverage, keep up to date managed objects for best performance, monitor and implement customer requested solution. It is expected interaction with key network infrastructure vendors and customers.


Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

 Operation 24x7 all network related components like router, switches, load balancer, firewalls, cloud solutions, etc.
 Provide to support our customers with network analysis; pro-actively drive operations excellence by solving and preventing operational issues.
 Coordinate changes initiated by Data Centre activities acting as SPOC for assigned projects Actively influences operational efficiency and operability of the deployed connectivity solutions
 Seeks clarification of risks before taking action to guarantee business continuity


Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

 Good knowledge of the Network Data Centre infrastructures
 Deep knowledge of Network equipment operation (Cisco Nexus router and switches, F5 Load Balancer) and of TCP/IP, Routing and switching Protocol
 Deep knowledge of telecommunications network systems and their services
 Good knowledge of Data Center technologies like FP, BGP, OSPF, HSRP, F5 Load Balancing

Must have technical/professional qualifications:

 Education level equivalent to a bachelor’s degree
 Desired: minimum 3 years’ experience with data centre and cloud technologies from Cisco, HPE, VCE and/or VMware NSX
 Desired: minimum 3 years’ experience in data centre environment

• Firewall
o Primary skills with Juniper firewalls (3600, 4200, 4600, 5400)
 Certifications: JNCIE-SEC or JNCIP-SEC with long experience-nice to have
o Secondary skills are with CheckPoint (IP390, IP560, IP12xx), and Netscreen (5400-II) firewalls
 Certifications: CCSE or CCSM-nice to have
o Experience with Juniper, CheckPoint/Netscreen

• Load Balancer
o Primary skills with F5 load balancers (BIG-IP 2000, BIG-IP VPR-C2400)
 Certifications: F5-CTS (BIG-IP LTM track: 101, 201, 301a, 301b)-nice to have
o Secondary skills are with Cisco ACE (ACE10, ACE20, ACE30, CSS) load balancers
 Certifications: 642-972, 642-975 exams-nice to have
o Experience with data centre technologies from F5, Cisco ACE

• Network Implementation (general)
o Very good knowledge of (not all in one person but in the team).
 Cisco Nexus device family, N2/5/6/7/9k, ASR 1/9k
 Cisco Fabric Path technology, switch profile, vPC, FEX, HSRP, BGP, OPSF, ISSU upgrades, NX OS
 F5 load balancers
 FW (Juniper, CheckPoint, Fortinet)

Nice to have:

 Certifications:
o Cisco (CCNP or CCIE)
o VCE (VCE-CIA, VCE-CIAE or VCECIMAE)
o F5 (BIG-IP Administrator, LTM Specialist)
o HPE (certificates for data centre, SDN and cloud solutions
o VMware NSX (VCP6-NV) or Juniper/CheckPoint
 Knowledge of scripting, network automation (Ansible) and programing (Python, Perl)
 Knowledge of Cisco ACI or VMware NSX


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 2/3 days a week
• Yearly professional evaluation
• Professional and friendly working environment

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