IP Network Design Engineer

Job description / Role

Role purpose:

Vodafone's IP Engineering delivers connectivity to enable carrier grade services for customers across Mobile, Fixed, IT, Cloud and Corporate. The IP Engineering spans across all markets in Europe, Egypt and India, and within the Atlantic Cluster we deliver services to the UK, Ireland, Spain and Portugal.

The team specializes on the Engineering of Core Network IP infrastructure and connectivity within the data centre, and security devices that prevent increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. We enable projects that require connectivity both within local market and internationally to central data centres, public cloud providers or 3rd party partners.

We continuously guarantee the IP network runs with carrier grade service levels by ensuring a design with proper capacity, resiliency and vendor support, always having in mind investments are done efficiently with balanced costs/benefits.

We are swiftly transforming the IP network by transitioning into SDN capabilities and programmability to orchestrate services deployment enabling faster time to market, improved resiliency, and supervision.

You will act as the Engineering Technical Authority with a design specialism, providing IP and Security Subject Matter Expertise at various levels, to enable the connectivity of customer's projects within the data centre, internationally and against public cloud providers.
You will have the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies across IP network and security nodes ranging from Firewalls, Load Balancers and Proxies to guarantee the network is compliant with Group Security policies.

With us you will:
- Capacity management Solid experience that ensures Network & Security resources are sufficient to meet future needs
- Design and delivery of customer services connectivity for Telco and IT deployed on the local market and internationally.
- Definition and delivery of technical solution designs with the appropriate dimensioning, scalability that are cost effective.
- Creation and maintenance of High Level and Low Level Designs for existing and new customers services.
- Support on the delivery of projects for capacity management/expansion activities in the nodes under scope, in line with directives for the region.
- Participate in local demand management forum to analyse and prioritise connectivity requests from customers for domestic and international projects.
- Manage system integrators for the implementation of the network and designed connectivity.
- Delivery of software upgrades in the nodes under scope, in line with Planning Design and Dimensioning guidelines.
- Interface with regional and local in-country Operations teams to define, plan and schedule network activities and interventions.
- Contribute to the definition and maintenance of the IP Evolution Plan by raising problems not solvable with the current IP architecture and proposing possible solutions.

Requirements

Technical Requirements:
- An academic degree and/or at least 5 years work experience in a Telecom / IT organization supporting large heterogeneous IP network infrastructures
- Solid knowledge of IP network design / architecture
- Excellent knowledge on some the following network nodes and vendors:
- Fluent English oral and written
- Good Knowledge of IP and Security best practices (CCNP, CISSP certification are a plus)
- Automation Ansible scripting and Go programming are a plus

About the Company

At Vodafone, we are known for our technology, but the truth is, it is humanity that drives our business forward. With the global pandemic raising so many questions for tech brands, it has highlighted the leading role that we need to play.

We believe that, when working together, humanity and technology can find the answers and create a better future for all.

Working at Vodafone is all about helping people feel ready to benefit from new technology. We bring the future to even the most remote places, using technology to help families in disaster zones, showing young people that a phone is not just for fun and thinking about technology that doesn’t even exist yet.