Senior Network Engineer

Purpose Statement:
The Client is a large European Cable Operator offering triple-play and over-the-top video services to its customers. We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer responsible to lead and/or contribute into the design and delivery of network projects supporting IT data centers.
She/he collaborates with engineers in the Client’s Broadband countries and other Corporate departments (Operations and Design).
This is an amazing opportunity for a Senior Network Engineer in Amsterdam to join a growing team, delivering world-class services to a global telecommunication company.

Main responsibilities are:

• Build of new network across the Client’s footprint including additional capacity to support growth and product roadmap;

• Assist with the day to day business within the Network Planning Team;

• Contribution to the Mergers & Acquisitions process in terms of technical assessments of the networks in question;

• Achieve project related deliverables within agreed and communicated timelines;

• Problem resolution within agreed SLAs;

• Performance, resilience and stability of the network design solutions provided;

• Engineering design:

  • Understand the business requirements and translate them into technical network solutions (capacity and functionalities)

  • Produce detailed network layouts and data centre design;

  • Creation of the network Low Level Design (LLD) based on the High Level Design (HLD) and the Connectivity matrix;

  • As part of the LLD, validate that the network can support the required capacity;

  • Design and plan the Datacentre network in an optimal and cost effective way, according to company technical guidelines;

  • Produce network engineering solutions and designs, implementation & migration plans and documents taking into account all related network elements;

  • Review and validate design and migration plans of consultant engineers.

• Implementation:

  • Create Change Request tickets describing in detail the network changes required to support new projects

  • Provide impact assessment describing potential risks and impact on running business services; create roll-back plan;

  • Present the Change Requests to Change Approval Board and gain authorization to implement

  • Implement the required changes across the network equipment within designated maintenance hours and follow the procedures prescribed by the Change Management processes;

  • Hand over the implemented changes to Operations and to 3rd parties;

• Problem and Compliance management:

  • Deal with major incidents in terms of Tier-3 escalations;

  • Provide root cause analysis on major incidents and follow up on corrective measures;

  • Discover and address systematic problems in the network design;

  • Liaise with the vendors for major incident and problem management;

  • Regular updates to management, status reporting, risk management, escalation management;

  • Update capacity planners about progress and get their input to review timeline for completion of capacity upgrades and Completion of internal project documentation.

• Testing:

  • Perform Lab testing of major software loads and new hardware components;

  • Perform end to end testing of engineered solutions before the implementation takes place.

Context/Environment:

• Position is within the Data Centre Network Department;

• Position is based in Amsterdam;

• Accommodation and weekly fly-backs to home city are covered by Azdio for international applicants;

• Work outside of business hours required on regular basis – 1-2 times per week within designated maintenance hours (11pm - 2am)

Education, Key knowledge and experience required:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in IP Networking and service providers

• Bachelor degree in Information Technology or Computer /Electrical Engineering or equivalent industry experience;

• Strong knowledge of ISP Data centers Design with special focus on IP Networks, Security and Application Delivery Solutions;

• Strong knowledge of high end Cisco and Nexus platforms;

• Strong knowledge of Checkpoint Firewalls and F5 load balancers (Application Delivery Controller) including Management Infrastructure as well as Firewall Enforcement Points;

• Very strong troubleshooting skills;

• Experience with Cisco ACI and SDN

• Excellent mastering of Microsoft Visio for network diagrams/designs

• Good Experience with Unix Systems and scripting languages;

• Experience in the design and build of networks and services, creation of LLDs and HLDs, network capacity validation, project management, as well as relevant IT skills;

• Good understanding of MPLS and dynamic routing protocols

• Expert user of Microsoft Windows, Office Suite and Visio;

• Fluent in spoken and written English;

• Good interpersonal skills, able communicator;

• Experience in multinational and multicultural environments.