Network Engineer

Title: Network Engineer

Duration: 12 Months

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Languages: English

Description:

We are looking for a network engineer who can be onboard very quickly within a very demanding and complex telco network environment. Ideally, you have experience with multiple platforms and tools for network automation. You have a strong and proven experience in networking and security design, delivery, and operations. You are able to leverage those foundational skills in an environment combining multiple skills to deliver projects end-to-end within the team. You will be joining an international team of engineers supporting the entire datacentre stack from switching all the way to OS layer and cloud deployments.

Responsibilities:

• Assuring network availability/quality and perform repair actions together with other internal teams.
• End-to-end ownership over projects covering design, implementation, and operations.
• Ensure that network & associated systems are rightfully monitored.
• Perform daily performance and root cause analysis.
• Participate at the system’s software & hardware lifecycle.
• Use existing tenant provisioning tools.
• Improve automation towards the provisioning, the alarming, the lifecycle activities.
• Keep updated documentation.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in electronics, informatics, or telecommunication
• five (5) years of experience in such activities
• Strong skills on at least two of the following platforms: Cisco ACI, Cisco Nexus, F5, Checkpoint, Gigamon
• Strong scripting skills (preferably Python) used in the context of network automation.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-a-code principles, being able to use Ansible and/or Terraform..
• Knowledge/Experience with CI/CD (automated testing, version control)
• Knowledge/Experience with programmable interfaces on Network equipment e.g. RESTful API’s, net conf/yang, etc
• Fluent in English in both spoken and written.
• Experience with modern monitoring solutions: Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, Splunk, etc.
• Relevant work experience in a large Telecom/Internet service provider environment is highly preferred.
• ITIL Service Operation knowledge

Required Technical Skills:

• Core Platforms: Cisco ACI, F5, Checkpoint.
• Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Splunk.
• Automation & Scripting: Ansible, Terraform.
• Proficiency in Python scripting