Network Design Engineer

Job#: 1371575

Job Description:

If interested, please reach out to Luke, at [email protected]!

This is a hybrid contract, requiring someone to be onsite in Houston ~2 days a week! Remainder is remote.

The digital transformation strategy of customer requires an increasingly flexible, agile and secure IT environment in order to enable best use of data, cloud services, personalization of user experience and connectivity of devices. Keeping our business goals and user experience in the forefront, customer IT has taken the decision to insource or directly procure a number of connectivity services. By taking greater control over key aspects of connectivity we can provide our users with better user experience, speed, and agility, while maintaining operational effectiveness and efficiency. As a result, we are building a partially insourced and multi-vendor ecosystem for our connectivity products and services and will be developing new skills and capabilities. Come join us on this exciting and ambitious journey.

This role is part of the customer IT’s Connectivity Portfolio team. The mission is to support projects with network engineering capabilities under the renewed model.

The senior network engineer is expected to be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) covering the application of telecommunications and network technology deployed across the Customer Group. This covers all customer’s businesses, all Customer’s location (offices, onshore plants, offshore plants, offices, trading floors, etc.) and various types of projects including capital projects and IT projects.

The purpose of the network engineer role is to participate in larger project or lead smaller projects and deliver the network elements in the project. The network engineer will be the key person in the project for all telecom and network elements.

• Lead Network Designer or as Network engineer of a project with the accountabilities for:
  • Deliver and execute the project control documentation for networking and field telecoms with assurance of the supplier plan and solution designs from an operability, affordability and maintainability perspective
• Collect and document requirements by specifying the needed functionality, all the non-functional requirements and all dependencies (e.g. cabling, construction or electrical work needed)
• Get a customer standards-based design produced and signed off with the design team and design assurance team.
• Work via design office with architecture & portfolio to update standards in specific cases
• Develop a deployment and testing strategy which is aligned with business readiness and IT delivery timelines
• Lead the deployment by orchestrating all activities across multiple teams, consisting off: central IT delivery, local installation, local testing and business stakeholders
• Handover the deployed or changed services to operations
• Share knowledge obtained and learn from others as part of a natural team across architecture, portfolio, design, network engineers, operations and service management, amongst others.

Qualifications

• Lead Network Designer or as Network engineer of a project with the accountabilities for:
  • Deliver and execute the project control documentation for networking and field telecoms with assurance of the supplier plan and solution designs from an operability, affordability and maintainability perspective
• Collect and document requirements by specifying the needed functionality, all the non-functional requirements and all dependencies (e.g. cabling, construction or electrical work needed)
• Get a customer standards-based design produced and signed off with the design team and design assurance team.
• Work via design office with architecture & portfolio to update standards in specific cases
• Develop a deployment and testing strategy which is aligned with business readiness and IT delivery timelines
• Lead the deployment by orchestrating all activities across multiple teams, consisting off: central IT delivery, local installation, local testing and business stakeholders
• Handover the deployed or changed services to operations
• Share knowledge obtained and learn from others as part of a natural team across architecture, portfolio, design, network engineers, operations and service management, amongst others.

• Mandatory: Design experience: requirement gathering, HLD, LLD, EOL, configs creation, deployment experience.
  Must have 1 of the 3 highlighted: Design and deployment expertise in: LAN, Aruba WLAN, Infoblox DDIA, F5 load balancing.
• Mastering the OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite (IP, ARP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, SMTP, FTP, TFTP)
• Mastering of Layer-2 Switching, VLAN’s and Access-list
• Mastering Wi-Fi, authentication, security technologies, Internet, SDWAN, MPLS and Voice over IP (VoIP)
• Mastering IP addressing and subnetting and routing concepts
• Switches: Full configuration and VLAN setup on Cisco switches
• Telecoms Industry knowledge with extensive experience in Networks and Telecommunications, Testing and Commissioning

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