Job Title: Core Network Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Shift Timing: 6:30 AM - 2:30 PM (Friday to Tuesday)

Employment Type: Full Time

Overall purpose of the job:

The Core Network Infrastructure team is responsible for all aspects of the ever-changing core network infrastructure environment.
This team is responsible for carrying out core network projects, predominantly based on high-capacity connectivity, MPLS, and Optical Transmission network elements, as well as providing advanced support to the engineering operations team.
The role is based offshore, and the working hours are aligned to overlap to a certain extent with normal UK working hours for cross-team communications, as well as to cover out-of-hours maintenance windows for network changes that cannot be executed during normal hours.

Key responsibilities for this job:

To deliver assigned projects that may involve one or more of the following activities
Network change-related planning and remote execution activities
Liaising with internal and external supplier teams as required
Carry out software upgrades on IP and Optical network elements during out-of-hours maintenance windows
Remotely oversee hardware upgrades on IP and Optical network elements
Remotely support changes/upgrades on the Fixed Networks involving PON topologies
To be available for out-of-hours work as required
Any other fair and reasonable task or duty assigned to you by your manager, or other senior client staff member

Knowledge and experience required:

Experience working within a Service Provider environment on the core network architecture
Experience working within a multi-vendor network environment - Cisco and Nokia are relevant
Solid foundational networking principles, with a desire to learn further
Advanced knowledge of routers, switches, and network security concepts
Experience and good knowledge of Ethernet, IP/MPLS protocols, and operation
Advanced skill in understanding and configuring routing protocol operation - BGP, OSPF, IS-IS
Advanced IP Addressing and Subnetting knowledge – IPv4 & IPv6
Advanced skill in understanding and configuring of switching technologies – Spanning Tree Protocol, VLANs, Dot1q, QinQ.
A good knowledge of other network principles, such as DNS, MX Records
Other technologies – VPLS (E-Lan), E-Line, L3 VPN, EVPN, DSL, VRRP
Excellent communication skills

Knowledge and experience with the following vendors would be advantageous: