Network Design Engineer - INSIDE IR35

Sign up to see company details
  • Contract 120 days
  • £550 - £575 (GBP) / day
  • London, England, United Kingdom
    and remote
  • ASAP

2 days per week in the London office as a minimum, Network Designer Engineer with experience working in Telco/carrier in mobile/security/ infrastructure environments.  Every first and third Monday of the month specifically are mandatory to attend in person for Planning Sessions related to the upcoming sprints.

Description

2 days per week in the London office as a minimum, Network Designer Engineer with experience working in Telco/carrier in mobile/security/ infrastructure environments.  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 our 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 our 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.

What you’ll bring

Must haves:

  • Experience working for a Service Provider
  • Competent in designing carrier grade network solutions for projects, complying with our 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
  • Exposure to Next Generation firewall technologies i.e. Fortigate Firewalls
  • Strong understanding of distributed hardware architecture and hands-on experience with Nokia 7750
  • Strong experience on ISIS, MPLS, RSVP, TE, Hierarchical QOS, LACP, BGP

Nice to haves:

    • Knowledge of Python and GIT to manage configuration templates and develop Automation solutions
    • Knowledge of Palo Alto firewalls, F5 LTM/GTM (or other load balancing) and Mobile 5G technologies

Skills

Business Activities
Stakeholder Communication
DevOps Technical Skills
Logging and reporting
Environments
Service Provider
IT Infrastructure Expertise
Firewalls
IT Infrastructure Products
Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router
F5 GTM
F5 LTM
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer
Fortinet FortiGate
Fortinet FortiManager
Nokia
Palo Alto Networks
IT Infrastructure Technologies & Protocols
5G
BGP
ISIS
MPLS
Netconf
QoS
RSVP
Server Load Balancing
YANG
IT Network Expertise
Network Automation
Roadmap
Technical Writing
Programming Languages & Frameworks
JSON
Python
XML
Software Development Tools
Git
GitHub

Industry Experience

IT company
Media & Broadcasting company - TV, Music, Movies, Radio, Entertainment