Senior IPT - KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa - wePlace

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    Job title : Senior IPT (ISP) Engineer – Durban jobs in KwaZulu-Natal

    Job Location : KwaZulu-Natal, Durban

    Deadline : April 25, 2024

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    Job Purpose:

    The Senior IPT (ISP) Engineer is the overall custodian for planning, implementation, and operation of the ISP network.

    This will cover all requirements for ISP Core and Open access networks including Layer 2 and 3 switching and routing, MPLS, FTTH and Fixed line networks, BRAS, CGNAT, peering, content caching and public IPv4/IPv6 queries and providing support for network faults and issues raised by the NOC (Network Operations Centre) team.

    Responsibilities:

  • Scope ISP network requirements nationally. Including peering, Caching, NAT, BGP, PPPOE and Radius.
  • Conduct high-level and low-level network planning.
  • Develop methods of procedure and oversee implementation.
  • Design, develop automated test cases for features of network management and automation product for ISP network.
  • Understand feature impacts, identify test cases, and prepare plan to execute them.
  • Understand real-world customer deployments and incorporate feedback into test cases.
  • Analyse, reproduce, debug issues reported by internal and/or external customers promptly.
  • Provide subject matter expertise on technical solutions.
  • Manage vendor performances based on contractual obligations and quality objectives.
  • Manage escalation of faults with vendors and communication with stakeholders during incidents.
  • Participates in the development of goals, work plans, timelines, and implementation approaches.
  • Support management team on national planning projects.

    Required Skills & Experience:
  • 10+ years of overall experience with:
  • Large service providers networks.
  • FTTH and fixed line networks design and operations.
  • Design, implementation/configuration, and support/operations of large network.
  • 5+ years of experience with:
  • Large OSPF networks – 50+ nodes – Design & Implementation.
  • Large layer-2 networks – 500+ hosts.
  • PPPoE and access technologies in networks of 1000+ subscribers.
  • MPLS – Design & Implementation – VPLS/L2VPN, L3VPN/MP-BGP.
  • Fibre optic networking in data centre environments
  • Mixed multi-vendor Environments.
  • At least five of the following equipment vendors: – Huawei Route & Switch – Arista – Mikrotik – Ciena – Juniper – Huawei GPON – Calix – Nokia GPON – Fortigate – Cisco NXOS.
  • Open Access Networks -From either ISP (Internet Service Provider) or FNO (Fibre Network Operator) perspective.
  • ISP Core Operations – including: – Peering Coordination and Internet Exchanges – Content Cache Infrastructure – eBGP Traffic Engineering Support management team on national planning projects.
  • IPv4 & IPv6 network protocols.
  • Troubleshooting and diagnosing user application performance issues – Speed & traffic throughput – Latency, jitter & user experience.

    Additional Skills & Experience:
  • Network security.
  • Firewall administration.
  • Fibre optic backhaul and transmission – Passive DWDM & CWDM – Optical link planning.
  • Last mile fibre technology – Ethernet point-to-point – GPON and related passive technologies.
  • Scripting & coding – BASH, Python, YAML, etc.
  • Basic Linux systems administration.
  • Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Service Architectures.
  • Microsoft Azure Networking.
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Networking.
  • PRTG & SNMP monitoring tools.
  • NetBox & inventory management tools.
  • Huawei NCE.
  • VMware / Proxmox.

    Required Qualification, Skills and Experience

    Minimum Qualification Indicator:

  • At least 2 years of tertiary education in an engineering or computer science field
  • Network professional certifications

    Minimum Experience Indicator:
  • Ten (10) years of experience in the network and telecommunications industry, in a Carrier / Mobile / Enterprise environment.
  • Should be able to communicate & collaborate across the Enterprise (Cross functional seamless execution) and developing strong relationships with Internal and External customers.

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