Senior Network Engineer (m/f/d)

Infopulse, Part of Tietoevry Create is inviting a talented professional to join our growing team as a Network Engineer. You will support the ongoing transition from a legacy way of working to managing the network with scripting, automation and the NetOps/GitOps model way of working.

Areas of Responsibility

• Assuring network availability/quality and perform repair actions together with other internal teams
• End-to-end ownership over projects from the platform and product backlogs, covering design, implementation and operations
• Take part in a guard duty service to support our 24/7 organization
• Ensure that network & associated systems are rightfully monitored
• Perform daily performance and root cause analysis
• Execute the system’s software & hardware lifecycle
• Improve automation towards the provisioning, the alarming, the lifecycle activities
• After some months, you might be owner of a platform (it includes vendor management but also responsibilities on forecasting the license, capacity sizing, upgrade, patching activities)
• Keep updated documentation
• Train your colleagues

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in electronics, informatics or telecommunication
• 5 years of experience for 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, write python scripts for network actions
• Knowledge/Experience with CI/CD (automated testing, version control)
• Knowledge/Experience programmable interfaces on Network equipment e.g. RESTful API’s, netconf/yang, etc
• Fluent English in both spoken and written

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 where combining multiple skills to deliver projects end-to-end within the team is required. You will be joining an international team of engineers supporting the entire datacenter stack from switching all the way to OS layer and cloud deployments.

Will be an advantage

• Experience with modern monitoring solutions: nagios, zabbix, Prometheus, Splunk, etc.
• Knowledge of Terraform
• Familiarity with GitOps and Infrastructure as Code concepts and experience implementing it in product
• Experience with VMWare
• Relevant work experience in a large Telecom/Internet service provider environment is a highly preferred
• ITIL Service Operation knowledge

Personal skills

• Senior & professional mindset
• Demonstration of strong analytical skills and technical problem-solving skills
• Ability to understand the business drivers & stakeholders’ requirements, motivations & expectations
• Ability to effectively communicate & collaborate
• Strong team player, highly motivated, dedicated and can do
• Loyal & transparent with peers and management lines