C- Network Design engineer (NCS/Job/ 2639)

What you'll do: 

1. Elicit business and technical requirements working with the various stakeholders during requirements gathering phase. 

1. Author both high level and low-level design documents to support Telco services including presenting such designs for internal technical and stakeholder sign off. 

1. 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.  

1. Participate in vendor selection by providing technical requirements into RFP document and by doing technical evaluation including Technical Proof of Concept testing.  

1. 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.  

1. 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 

1. IP networking and Routing/Switching such as MPLS, LDP, ISIS, BGP, ACL’s and QoS 

1. Good understanding of Cisco IOS-XR product line such as ASR9K, NCS5K 
2. Good experience with service provider technologies for supporting carrier routing, switching and security 
3. Possess excellent communication skills to convey Risks, obtain sign-off, timely escalate issues to management, and send weekly project updates 
4. CCNP Service Provider certified 

Good to have skills 

1. 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.  

1. Solid understanding of python, Ansible and config management via GIT 

ISP subscriber technology experience such as Nokia SROS, BNG, IPoE, PPPoE.