Work dedicated in a team, close to the Product Owner (within the product line) following the Agile methodology to transform the DC infrastructure and build the SDN evolution
The Network Engineer is responsible for delivering, maintaining, and optimizing Cloud Platforms and related infrastructure, network, database, and middleware capabilities to support and enable the development and operations of Cloud modules and solutions
This role is responsible for reviewing solution designs, understanding their impact on the associated infrastructure, network and ensuring the availability of supporting and enabling infrastructure from internal (local and/or global DCs) and external service providers
This role is responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and supporting the operational capacity, availability, and performance of the solutions against SLAs from a level two and level three support perspective
This role is responsible for providing Cloud platform and infrastructure/network related level two and level three incident and problem management
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
Work with Private and Public Cloud service providers to forecast and right-size long-term capacity and performance requirements, iterating regularly
Determine user and technical story impact on existing architecture, work processes and systems
Design and implement on-site supporting platform/infrastructure/network and tooling for software module development, orchestration and operations
Design and implement on-site supporting database and middleware capabilities to support software module development and operations
Monitor and maintain Platform/infrastructure/network performance, capacity and availability, providing 2nd and 3rd level of support for the resolution of infrastructure-related incidents and problems
Manage incidents & problems as level two and three, being part of on-call rotation
Requirements
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
Systems analysis and infrastructure & network design in hyper-scale environments
Infrastructure & Network automation and configuration management tools, e.g. (Puppet, Jenkins, Ansible)
Network knowledge and network build experience in large scale Datacenter environment (e.g. Cisco ACI networking and various SDN technologies, NSX, Contrail, etc)
Infrastructure and Network test design, execution, and validation
Infrastructure and Network capacity, performance, and availability management
Continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
Database technologies – RDBMS, e.g. MySQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle and NoSQL e.g. Cassandra, Spark, Redis, Mongo,etc.
At least two programming and scripting languages (Python mandatory)
Highly cross-functional and able to swap and perform adjacent roles and responsibilities at short notice
Strong written and verbal communications skills, with the ability to distill difficult technical concepts into simple and actionable practices
Willingness to track, assess, and incorporate practice and new technology developments and innovation into day-to-day working
Good understanding of the business capability/user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes
Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends
Must have technical/professional qualifications:
Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree or technical institute certificate in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field
3+ years of work experience in designing, developing, deploying and/or administering infrastructure solutions at the expert certification level
Experience of current and emerging virtualization, infrastructure, and cloud and containers technologies and architectures, such as Windows, Linux, UX/UI, AWS, Azure, Openstack, Docker etc.
Experience of configuration management and automation with the following tools Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins, GIT
Experience working with programming and scripting languages (Python is a must)
Experience working closely with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, XP, and with teams leveraging DevOps and Continuous Delivery / Integration
Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry preferred
