Network Design Engineer – IP Core

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 of IP Core networks, Peering & Transit, and large-scale network architectures with a good experience of having worked in a similar role in design.
• Experience in the design and architecture of ISP networks, with knowledge of key routing protocols like IS-IS, MPLS & Segment Routing (SR-MPLS), Route Reflectors, and BGP in all its main forms (e/iBGP, MP-BGP, BGP-LS, BGP)
• Good understanding of network protocols, including TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, and SSL/TLS.
• Good knowledge of Peering & Transit strategies, IXPs, and traffic engineering principles.

Good to have skills

• Familiarity with NETCONF-YANG models, JSON, XML for network automation.
• Good understanding of Python, Ansible, and GIT, or willingness to learn.
• Experience with IP backbone scalability and traffic optimization
• Familiarity with network security principles and best practices for DDoS mitigation in ISP environments.