DC Network Senior Implementation Engineer

_VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value and enhancing quality and efficiency across 28 countries, and operating from 6 locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, and the UK.

Over 26,000 highly skilled individuals are dedicated to being Vodafone Group’s partner of choice for talent, technology, and transformation. We deliver the best services across IT, Care, Business Intelligence Services, HR, Finance, Supply Chain, HR Operations, and many more. Established in 2006, _VOIS has evolved into a global, multi-functional organisation, a Centre of Excellence for Intelligent Solutions focused on adding value and delivering business outcomes for Vodafone.

_VOIS is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We celebrate differences and we welcome and value diverse people and insights. We believe that being authentically human and inclusive powers our employees’ growth and enables them to create positive impact for themselves and society. We do not discriminate based upon age, colour, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, and national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

- 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 cloud and NFV technologies (ACI, OpenStack, NSX, …)
- Good knowledge of VCE (vBlock) and HPE (C7000) products
- 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)

- Accountable for the Low Level Design, network implementation, optimization, testing and quality assurance activities in the Global Data Centers (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.
- 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 data centre 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, utilisation)
- Deliver optimal implementation process that ensures quality.
- Decrease the design and implementation costs and to achieve a harmonized & simplified network infrastructure
- Quality assurance and optimisation 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 datacentres:
- Drive network standards across Local markets
- Drive + Support Network innovations

Sounds like the perfect job? We’ve got even more to offer:
- Work from Home
- Medical and dental services
- Life insurance
- Dedicated employee phone subscription
- Special discounts for gyms and retailers
- Annual Company Bonus
- Ongoing Education
- You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology
- Getting in on the ground floor of a technology changing company
- Flexible Vacation
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