Infrastructure Systems Engineer

For a client of us we are looking for a high end system engineer. In the current organization you are required to lead and/or contribute into the design and delivery of network projects supporting ISP and IT data centres. You will collaborate with engineers in several countries.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

- Understand the business requirements and translate them into technical network solutions (capacity and functionalities), support the budgeting and spend justification process (Bills of Material, network drawings etc.).
- Design and plan the Data centre network in an optimal and cost effective way, according to company technical guidelines.
- Produce network engineering solutions and designs, bills of material, implementation & migration plans and documents taking into account all related network elements.
- Carry out network implementations and migrations and handover the new networks to Operations and to 3rd parties.
- Review and validate design and migration plans of consultant engineers.
- 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.
- Perform Lab testing of major software loads and new hardware components.
- Perform end to end testing of engineered solutions before the implementation takes place.
- Contribution to the Mergers & Acquisitions process in terms of technical assessments of the networks in question.

ENVIRONMENT Deadline- and Innovation driven.

REQUIREMENTS
- Solid knowledge of ISP Systems 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
- Strong knowledge of F5 LTM/Viprion
- Solid knowledge in Cisco ACI (Application centric)
- Strong knowledge in Routing and Switching

You need to understand ACI: EPGS, Layer3outs, Bridge Domains and you need to allocate services into ACI.

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.