IP Planning Network Engineer

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• Eager to take on new challenges and learn new things;
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Position Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/ Master’s Degree in Engineering (Computer Science or equivalent experience) or combination of related education and experience.
• Good understanding of operator business drivers and technologies in the IP network areas.
• Broad overview of IP technologies. Good acquaintance with TCP / IP protocols and networks
• Experience of IP Planning and Design on Telecom/ISP based networks
• Working knowledge of MPLS, IS-IS, MPBGP, OSPF,L2VPN
• Working knowledge of QoS in IP networks (CBWFQ, WRED, etc.)
• Working knowledge of Cisco routers/ switches and IOS, preferably on CCNP level
• Working knowledge of ALU router/ switches required
• Working knowledge of Checkpoint firewalls (CCSA, CCSE certifications desirable)
• Working knowledge of Juniper firewalls required
• Working knowledge of Extreme switches
• Nice to have experience on F5 BigIP equipment
• Working knowledge of Cisco ASA firewalls and loadbalancers, ACS administration and SSL
• IP Certifications on Juniper and/or Cisco are required. Desirable CCNP level (CCNP SP, JNCIS-FW is a plus)
• At least 5 years relevant working experience (in the branch)
• Candidate must be able to demonstrate both an excellent understanding and practical experience of implementation and troubleshooting in Security.

Personal Skills:

• Presentation and communication skills, able to advise in a convincing way, verbally as well as on paper
• ability to work with teams from different locations
• Knowledge sharing & Collaboration skills
• Strong knowledge of English language, spoken and written
• Delivering Results & Meeting Customer Expectations; understand the interest of internal and external customers
• Analyzing
• Deciding & Initiating Action
• Planning & Organizing: working according to processes and procedures, in a time efficient manner
• Customer consulting skills, ability to link the customer requests to our services and service development
• Analytical & task oriented
• Cost awareness
• Social skills & awareness
• Problem Solving & strategic thinking
• Responsible, service minded, flexible, taking initiatives, highly motivated - self-starter

Responsible for the end to end service or resource specific coordination, management, execution & managing the projects of the following activities:

• Service & Resource; long & medium term planning & design, as part of the Infrastructure & Product Lifecycle Management. Resource here must be understood as the complete Operator's network & IS/IT infrastructure under the scope of the MS contract. This Service Function (SF) must ensure the best cost effective design, the adequate network & technology evolution & ensure the consistency of the service & resource
• Short term planning, service & resource engineering, responsible for the detailed design of new or enhanced services or resources, supporting the deployment of the solution & ensuring that it meets the project requirements
• Post-incident analysis as part of the Problem Management process & for approving any change that affects the network (or service) topology
• Network (& Service) performance management & capacity management, responsible to ensure that the services or resources are performing adequately & that enough capacity is available to meet the business requirements & growth projections. This function will prompt the need for a specific network optimization.

Responsibilities & Tasks

• Implement and optimize IP network infrastructure, within existing guidelines and procedures, keeping in mind the business and/or project requirements
• Planning implementation activities reserving resources, conforming to High Level Designs/ Low Level Designs within the framework of existing processes and procedures, to ensure the activities can be done within the agreed planning
• Build, configure, optimize, test and accept new network elements, conforming to designs and change management procedures, to implement and activate new services or capacity upgrades with a minimum of disruption of the availability of the service
• Prepare changes following the local change regime in the live network of the operators and execute then after customer approval
• Testing new configuration in the customer test center
• Loading IP configurations and firewall matrixes to support new services and operators
• Handover to customer back office
• Actively maintain and develop knowledge of the competence area, in order to be able to perform the activities with a sufficient knowledge level
• Advise, deliver input for year plans, recommend technical improvements to Technical Managers, Project Managers and Performance and Quality Managers, in order to contribute to the optimization of the networks.