Network Design Engineer – Access/Broadband

What you'll do:

• Elicit business and technical requirements working with the various stakeholders during requirements gathering phase.
• Author both high level and low-level design documents to support Telco services including presenting such designs for internal technical and stakeholder sign off.
• Perform audit, analysis and propose solutions for migrating from one platform or design to another, providing support for testing and fulfilment teams.
• Assist software/hardware selection, bug scrubs and security vulnerability assessments and work with test and implementation engineers to review test plans, defects, test reports, MOP and change tickets.
• Contribute in vendor selection by supporting technical requirements into RFP document and by doing technical evaluation including Technical Proof of Concept testing.
• Support automation initiatives and contribute to the implementation of new DevOps network solutions following business strategy of building once and deploy multiple time.

Must have skills

• Good understanding and experience of ISP subscriber technologies including IPoE (DHCPv4 & DHCPv6), PPPoE, L2TP, and RADIUS.
• Experience of architecture and design of telco networks using ISIS, MPLS, Segment Routing, MP-BGP, LDP, HQoS, uRPF, ACLs.
• Knowledge of layer 2 & 3 VPN technologies, EVPN, T-LDP, VPLS and IPv6 and IPv4aaS technologies.
• Familiarity with BNG products from Nokia and Huawei. Nokia NRS2 and SRA certifications (or willingness to obtain).

Good to have skills

• Knowledge of MAP-T (relevant in the Sky landscape)
• Ability to apply Open-config and Vendor specific NETCONF-YANG models, JSON and XML payload for network automation to configure and manage routers would be advantageous.
• Familiarity with Python, Ansible, Jinja2 and config management via GIT, or willingness to learn.
• ISP subscriber technology experience such as Nokia SROS, BNG, IPoE, PPPoE.