PURPOSE
1. Support the migration of three regional data centres to either a single on-premise region or to the public cloud (Azure or AWS).
2. Technical requirements gathering and validation.
3. Assist in the design, plan and migration activities for customer migrations.
• Be the network expert during design, plan and test for migration activation and transition phases.
• Design, Develop and Deliver solutions which are well-thought out, reasonable and practical together with programme & Product Management, Product teams as committed.
• Responsible for requirements analysis and detailed design of various technical aspects related to traditional MPLS, Internet and Cloud Network and security solutions.
• Understand product & client requirements at a detailed level in order to build and deploy configurations for network and security equipment.
• Take leadership to address security concerns.
• Support both Solution Designers and Project managers on customer projects and also Operations in case of problem escalation.
• Ability to be the lead technical role on complex projects (Size and scope) overseeing requirement analysis through implementation and support pre and post migration.
• Advanced knowledge and proven expertise of network and security protocols
• Advanced knowledge of networking and switching
• Expertise in network design, operational support, hands-on implementation and configuration of network elements for an international telecom service provider or at least in a large and complex enterprise LAN/WAN environment
• Knowledge and understanding of programming language, Opensource, Openflow and APIs
• Excellent communication skills. Must be able to interact with internal stakeholders, customers, business partners and represent our client.
• Sound knowledge of standard engineering principles, theories, concepts and methodologies (Requirements definition/analysis, design, tests, documentation)
• Sound abstraction skills, Innovative and out of the box thinking person.
• Must be proficient in the following:
• VMware NSX-T
• VMware NSX-V
• AVI ALB (ideal) F5 GTM / LTM
• IPVPN MPLS
• Traditional Routing and Switching
• Palo / Fortigate Firewalls
• Azure / AWS Networking (ideal)
