Network Engineer

The Senior Network Engineer is required in the current organization to design, maintain and optimise the MPLS core network carrying B2B and residential services. She/he acts as the technical lead for related capacity upgrade and feature enhancement projects. She/he collaborates with engineers in different countries and Corporate departments

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 MPLS network down to the access networks in the Countries 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

JOB DEMANDS NETWORK ENGINEER

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

Strong knowledge of IP Networks and relevant design (CCIE or JNCIE is a plus)

Strong knowledge of high end Juniper and Cisco platforms (MX and ASR series)

Proven solid experience in high-scale IP Networks - BGP, MPLS, QoS, OSPF, ISIS, Multicast etc.

Good experience with network monitoring, reporting and planning tools

Experience with Unix developments and SQL databases - Perl, C++, MySQL is a plus

Used to work with the Microsoft Windows and Office Suite

Fluent in spoken and written English

Good interpersonal skills, able communicator

Team player

Experience in multinational and multicultural environments

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

10 years of overall experience in designing and engineering complex large scale IP Networks

REMAINING INFORMATION NETWORK ENGINEER

Location: Amsterdam

Start: ASAP

Duration: 6 months with option to extend

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