IP Engineer at Smart Partners Consulting Limited

Smart Partners Consulting Limited - Our client is a leading provider of innovative telecom services (International Gateway, Roaming and Submarine Cable Communications). They possess the flexibility and scale to meet the ever-growing demand for reliable, high-speed capacity on demand by our end consumers, enterprise customers and the ecosystem that supports them.

They are currently recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: IP Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time (On-Site)
Unit: Technical SCB

Description

• We are currently recruiting highly competent and high flying technical and commercial professionals eager to contribute to success in a dynamic and technology driven environment.
• Our client is seeking for an experienced IP Engineer that will manage SCB IP/MPLS BB and Enterprises N/W Service Delivery and Field Support Operations.

Responsibilities

• Completing assigned duties in relation to planning and optimization of existing IP/MPLS network setup.
• Monitoring, tuning, dimensioning and forecasting expansions of IP/MPLS network or its components (including international/national peering platforms and caching/filtering/load-balancing platforms) based on traffic growth trends.
• Troubleshooting SCB IP/MPLS network related issues and deploying corrective measures.
• Creating and keeping up to date technical documentation and diagrams for IP/MPLS network setup.
• Completing assigned duties in regards to planning and deployment of IP based services within existing IP/MPLS network,
• Initiating and managing projects in terms of planning, deployment and optimization of new IP based services.
• Troubleshooting core IP network related issues and deploying corrective measures.
• Deploying network control solutions, planning hardware and software upgrades, cooperation with vendor engineers in identifying and resolving complex hardware and software problems, and performing migrations of equipment and interfaces as per need.
• Plan system monitoring mechanisms that rapidly detect and block any security intrusion and service assaults.
• Deployment of peering with global network providers for both local and upstream.
• Deployment and operations of all peering connectivity with CDN providers across the globe.

Key Performance Indicator and Deliverables

• Providing 3rd level technical support within a multi-vendor environment within SLA/KPI.
• Work with a team on an out-of-hours on-call support Network Restoration.
• Troubleshoot logged faults and isolate the cause to minimise impacts.
• Support the implementation of new equipment along with the maintenance of existing systems.

Education, Qualification and Experience

• University Graduate in Engineering, Electronics, Telecommunication or Computer Science from a reputed Engineering Institute with 5-10 years of experience.
• Network certification such as CCNA and CCIE.

Skills and Competencies:

• Knowledge of OSI model with emphasis on Layers 2 and 3.
• Thorough knowledge of service provider IP architectures.
• Good knowledge of networking technologies - TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, VPNs, Firewalls, proxy etc.
• Working knowledge of network capture and analysis tools, with the ability to analyse protocol and application behaviours.
• Working knowledge of highly available ISP network technologies.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.