Senior Engineer, Networks at Cellulant Nigeria Limited

Cellulant is Africa’s no.1 company in the payments & transfers category - FIntech Awards 2016. We are a PPISP (Payment Platform Infrastructure Service Provider) regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and insured by Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Engineer, Networks

Location: Lagos
Employment type: Full time

Job Description

• Internal Application Support: You will support in deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting transaction processing applications. This includes ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and security on the network layer.
• Network Architectural Design: Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will be responsible for designing and optimizing the organization's network architecture. This may involve capacity planning, security assessments, and proposing improvements to enhance network performance.
• On-Prem Network Infrastructure: Manage and maintain on-premises network infrastructure, including switches, routers, firewalls, and other networking appliances. Ensure these devices are up-to-date and configured to meet the organization's requirements.
• Cloud Network Services: Manage and maintain cloud network services. This involves configuring, monitoring, and optimizing network resources in the cloud, ensuring connectivity, security, and high availability.
• Automation Pipeline Development: Implement automation pipelines for network services and appliances to streamline repetitive tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce human error. This might include using tools like Ansible, Terraform, or custom scripting.
• Incident Response: Serve as a 2nd and 3rd-level response for network-related incidents, providing timely resolutions to critical issues. Troubleshoot network problems, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
• Customer Network Integration: Act as the primary point of contact for customer network-related integration, ensuring that external systems and networks seamlessly integrate with our organization's network infrastructure.
• Compliance Support: Assist in ISO audits, PCI/DSS audits, and other compliance assessments. Ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with regulatory and security standards, implementing necessary controls.

Key Relationships: 

• Network Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Information Security Engineers, Software Developers and Project Managers and Client Network Engineers

Core Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot application-related network issues.
• Design and optimize the organization's network architecture.
• Conduct capacity planning and propose improvements.
• Assess and enhance network security and performance.
• Manage and maintain on-premises network infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls, etc.).
• Configure, monitor and optimize network resources on the cloud.
• Develop and implement automation pipelines for network services and appliances.
• Act as a 2nd and 3rd-level responder for network-related incidents.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for customer network integration.
• Assist in ISO audits, PCI/DSS audits, and other compliance assessments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and optimize the organization's cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Degree in Telecommunication, Computer Science / IT Engineering or related fields of study.
• A minimum of 4 years experience in a Service Provider environment.
• Holds a Cisco CCNP or equivalent industry certification
• CompTIA Network+ or CompTIA Cloud+
• VMware Certified Professional (VCP-NV, VCP-DCV, VCP-Cloud )
• Certifications related to security and compliance, such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Must have experience:

• Minimum 5 years Experience as a Network Engineer.
• Experience with Enterprise Network and Security systems (Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper, Checkpoint).
• Minimum 3 years of previous experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Minimum 3 years of previous experience deploying and automating infrastructure in public cloud environments, using Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with programming/scripting languages (Python, Bash)
• Significant experience deploying infrastructure on public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, Rackspace).

Experience that will count in your favor:

• Working knowledge of virtualized environments such as VMware vSphere, KVM, and Citrix XenServer.
• Working knowledge of Virtualized Network environments (SDN, NFV, NSX, etc).
• Being interested and able to grow in developing architectural designs, scripting, and automated IT infrastructure systems. Learning platform area elements, and enhanced configuration management systems, for example, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Strong Desire to automate network activities.
• Strong interest in learning the latest automation tools.
• The perfect candidate has a desire to be part of an advanced team.
• Interest and motivation to document key points of design and operational practices, working within existing within the team approaches.

Skills:

• Practical experience with routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, and ISIS on Cisco, Juniper, or Fortinet Hardware and Software.
• Practical experience with application delivery controllers such as F5, NGINX, HAProxy etc.
• Competent in the implementation of network security with NG firewalls such as Cisco ASA, Fortigate, Juniper, or equivalent.
• Proven experience with Network Monitoring tools.
• Working knowledge of public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with programming/scripting languages will be an added advantage.
• A solid understanding of Internet-based technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, Security, HTTP/HTTPS).
• Sound knowledge of security approaches within cloud and data center networks.
• Experience with Virtualization platforms (KVM, VMware, or HyperV).
• Experience migrating services across different environments (On-premise to Cloud/Hybrid Cloud).
• Practical Knowledge of security approaches within cloud and data center infrastructure.
• Proficiency in a coding language.

Personal attributes:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.