IP Design Lead
On-siteReading, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead and support all designs across the IP network portfolio, including LAN, WAN, SP, advanced routing, switching, and Cloud Technologies like OpenStack and OpenShift. Act as a specialist troubleshooter working with multiple teams to resolve complex design issues and govern other designers to deliver implementations. Create detailed, specialized documentation for projects crossing various technology domains while liaising with stakeholders on escalations and operational events. Drive expert designs that align with organizational goals through strategy and architecture. Must be willing to work out of hours for changes and manage time efficiently across multiple projects.
Required Qualifications
- extensive networking skills and experience
- ability to quickly learn and apply knowledge in new areas
- Senior level knowledge and experience in service provider and datacentre switching and routing
- experience in on-prem and hybrid Cloud technologies
- Service Provider MPLS and DC routing and switching
- Complex network design and implementation focused on redundancy and highly available networks
- Strong understanding of the OSI model layer and TCP/IP stack
- advanced network troubleshooting
- In-depth knowledge of BGP, MPLS, service provider and enterprise routing protocols
- L2 and L3 network design, operations, and troubleshooting
- WAN Routing and traffic engineering
- Strong familiarity with major network vendors, such as Cisco, Juniper, F5 and Fortinet
- Strong knowledge of SNMP, NTP, TACACS+, SYSLOG and other standard network protocols
- analytical mind-set
- problem solve
- plans and prioritise work load efficiently and effectively
- Self-starter
- able to engage in multiple projects
- plan and manage time, delivery, and expectations
- Must be willing to work out of hours to carry out changes
- proficient in Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel, Powerpoint, Visio
Desired Qualifications
- experience in on-prem and hybrid Cloud technologies
- Experience in coding for network automation
- Service Provider routing and/or Security certifications (e.g. CCIE/JNCIE/SRA or equivalent)
- demonstrable equivalent experience
- demonstrate excellent interpersonal and technical skills
- ability to communicate complex matters in a simplified way
- Knowledge and some experience of the following: Automation e.g. YANG, Openconfig, NETCONF, RESTCONF, Ansible, Python
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