IP Engineer at Alfred and Victoria Associates

Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market. AVA has three major arms which have been streamlined to meet our customer's needs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: IP Engineer

Location: Lekki Phase 1, Lagos
Employment Type: Permanent
Department: Technical

Responsibilities

• The IP Engineer will be responsible for designing, integrating and implementing IP based services on the Company’s network.

Other responsibilities include:

• Providing innovative network solutions and engaging OEMs when required.
• Driving the company’s IPv6 strategy
• Network design, planning, administration and maintenance.
• IP multicast setup and IOS-XE, IOS-XR router deployments
• Ensuring knowledge transfer for level-1 IPNOC.
• Troubleshooting and resolving WAN/LAN connectivity issues.
• Managing bandwidth of the IP backbone for optimal performance.
• Performing routine checks and maintenance on all network elements.
• Routing protocol troubleshooting experience in a large scale network (BGP, IS-ISOSPF, EIGRP)
• Strong experience configuring and troubleshooting Cisco routers and switches.
• Monitoring of network elements and ensuring prompt repair and restoration of all faulty/down sites/links.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of network equipment such as routers, switches and firewalls like Cisco ASA, Fortigate
• Exploring existing knowledge base and make recommendation to improve systems, solutions and processes

Qualifications, Skills & Competencies

• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum years of Experience: 3.
• Relevant professional/technical certifications like CCNP, JNCIS, (CCIE is an advantage)
• Good presentation skills.
• Relationship Management skills.
• Time & self-management skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Good knowledge of networking technologies - TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, VPNs, EVPN, VxLAN, SDWAN, SDNetc.
• Hands on experience configuringFirewalls, Cisco and Juniper routers,
• Service provider experience in technologies like MPLS L2VPN,L3VPN,ISIS,BGP, Segment Routing
• Proven capacity in designing and implementing complex, high performance networks with multiple locations and applications, preferably service provider networks.
• Scripting knowledge is an added advantage.

Demands of the Job

• There could be a need to travel.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision.
• Ability and willingness to work long hours and meet tight deadlines.

Application Closing Date
3pm; 14th March, 2022.