Job Description
DESCRIPTION
We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the TES Department within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below:
Reporting to the Manager - Enterprise Network Programmability, the position holder will be responsible to design and implement Intent-based networking systems and enable network administrators to automate tasks.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead and champion Enterprise Edge network digitization activities as part of pedictive maintenances on the Enterprise Network.
• Lead and champion next generation connectivity e.g. SDN, 5G for Enterprise, IPv6.
• Lead and motivate the adoption of robotic process automation to eliminate repetitive linear activities to optimize deployment and maintenance processes.
• Automate Performance management to achieve service uptime targets.
• Automate and simplify configuration management of Enterprise Networks.
• Automate and simplify Enterprise Network order fulfillment processes to reduce billing time.
• Develop configuration management tools to reduce repetitive maintenance tasks including remote access management and site acceptance procedures.
• Employ Data science analytics tools to simplify and Analyze Enterprise Edge IP network logs to resolve and report running faults before they become service affecting.
• Lead Digital Empowerment of Customer facing teams to improve customer SLA and significantly reduce BAU escalations to Backend Infrastructure team.
• Lead agile collaboration activities with digital NOC team and participate in End to End EBU automation project squad.
• Optimize and monitor alerts on the Enterprise IP core and follow up on resolutions.
• Be a custodian of network documentation and improvements of the versions.
• Spares tracking and management in liaison with the responsible sections in the company for the IP devices in use.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Bsc. Computer Science, Software Engineering or relevant qualification.
• Programmable environments such as Cisco One Platform, OpenDaylight Controller and Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC).
• Candidates should be able to program in C, Python or similar languages in an open networking environment
• Practical hands on experience on Redhat Ansible Chef, Puppet, Salt Stack, etc.
• Knowledge and experience with network security and various secured VPN technologies
• Knowledge and experience with network operating systems such as Cisco IOS, IOS-XR, IOS-XE and Huawei VRRP
• Experience in automation via Bash/shell scripting and Perl/Python programming