Senior Network Designer

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.
• Own software/hardware selection, perform bug scrubs and security vulnerability assessments and work with test and implementation engineers to review test plans, defects, test reports, MOP and change tickets.
• Participate in vendor selection by providing technical requirements into RFP document and by doing technical evaluation including Technical Proof of Concept testing.
• Steer network elements’ feature roadmap by working closely with our strategic technology partners for software release planning, budget submissions and provide inputs for business case preparation.
• Drive platform improvements, enable automation and implement new solutions that enable DevOps capabilities and support business strategy of building once and deploy multiple time.

Must have skills

• Detailed understanding and experience of ISP subscriber technologies including IPoE (DHCPv4 & DHCPv6), PPPoE, L2TP, RADIUS and MAP-T.
• Detailed understanding and experience of architecture and design of telco networks using ISIS, MPLS, Segment Routing, MP-BGP, LDP, HQoS.
• Strong understanding of layer 2 & 3 VPN technologies, EVPN, T-LDP, VPLS and IPv6 and IPv4aaS technologies.
• Strong understanding of BNG products from Nokia and Huawei.
• Nokia NRS2 and SRA

Good to have skills

• 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.
• Solid understanding of python, Ansible and config management via GIT
• ISP subscriber technology experience such as Nokia SROS, BNG, IPoE, PPPoE.