£300/day to £405/day
London, England
Contract, Variable

Network Design Engineer

Posted by LANCESOFT LTD.

Candidates must have had experience working in Telco/carrier in mobile/security/infrastructure environments and there is a need for someone with heavy Nokia understanding.

This position requires being in the office twice per week. Every first and third Monday of the month specifically are mandatory to attend in person for Planning Sessions related to the upcoming sprints.

What you'll do

  • Author High Level and Low Level Design Documents to support Client's network
  • Own software/hardware selection perform bug scrubs and security vulnerability assessments and work with Test and Delivery engineers to review test plans, defects, test reports, MOP and change tickets.
  • Drive platform improvements enable automation and implement new solutions that enable DevOps capabilities and support business strategy of building once and deploy multiple time.
  • Competent in designing Carrier grade network solutions for projects, complying with client's design standards
  • Good experience with service provider technologies for supporting carrier routing, switching and security
  • Elicit business and technical requirements working with various partners during requirements collection phase.
  • Strong understanding of Reliability matrix, availability matrix, longevity of design, commercial aspect of solutions
  • Steer network security elements' feature roadmap by working closely with our strategic technology partners for software release planning, budget submissions and provide inputs for case preparation.

Must haves:

  • Experience working for a Service Provider
  • Strong Nokia experience
  • Competent in designing carrier grade network solutions for projects, complying with Client's design standards
  • Good experience with service provider technologies for supporting carrier routing, switching and security
  • Strong understanding of Reliability matrix, availability matrix, longevity of design, commercial aspect of solutions
  • Demonstrable document writing skills in producing artefacts such as HLD and LLD, presentation and technical diagrams as part of project engagements
  • Possess excellent communication skills to convey Risks, obtain sign-off, timely escalate issues to management, and send weekly project updates
  • FortinetNSE4 certification and strong hands-on experience of FortiGate firewalls, FortiAnalyser and fortimanager
  • Strong understanding of distributed hardware architecture and hands-on experience with Nokia 7750
  • Strong experience on ISIS, MPLS, RSVP, TE, Hierarchical QOS, LACP, BGP
  • Good understanding of configuring firewall policies, address objects, NAT, Interfaces, Zones, Dynamic Routing (BGP), logging.
  • Solid grasp of firewall architecture

Nice to have:

  • Ability to apply Open-config and Vendor specific NETCONF-YANG models, JSON and XML payload for network automation to configure and manage firewalls
  • Knowledge of Python and GIT to manage configuration templates and develop Automation solutions
  • Knowledge of Palo Alto firewalls, F5LTM/GTM (or other load balancing) and Mobile 5G technologies.