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Job Description
Description
Reporting to the Senior Manager – Transport IP Planning & Design, the role holder is responsible for deploying the Data Centre & Campus Networks, the LAN, WLAN and WAN projects/solutions, Inter/Intra Telco and IT Data center connectivity Inter Office voice and video Communications.
Key Responsibilities
- Planning and Design of Datacenter & Campus Networks Solution to meet current as well as long term requirements
- Compilation of Datacenter & Campus Networks topologies, Network Diagrams, schematics and floor layout plans
- Plan and Oversee resources to conduct surveys and implementation plans that ensures timely implementation as per the project timelines
- Timely delivery of key milestones and ensuring that standards are adhered to at all times in the projects Rollout including trials and POCs.
- Liaison with implementation and support teams to ensure rollout follows the design and meets both the business and engineering specifications
- Definition of network KPIs , SLAs and acceptance procedures for new Services and management of service Transition to Support teams
- Overall Infrastructure resources utilization such as Materials, Spares, bandwidths, maintained within KPI targets as per KPI doc
- Capacity for traffic growth to be provided in accordance with overall projected growth · Planned expansions and upgrades to meet the capacity objectives at all times.
- Meet all the capacity and quality KPI’s in accordance with Tx target
- Timely identification and mitigation of all potential Bottlenecks to guarantee capacity and Quality.
- New enhanced features to be implemented as per the roadmap to continuously improve network capacity, quality and user experience.
- Planning, reviewing, optimization and evaluating the network performance as per own designs
- Impact Assessment Report of proposed new Datacenter systems, services showing anticipated improvement of identified KPI – network situation before/after change released during evaluation process.
- Creation of integration and functional acceptance tests documentation for every new Datacenter systems/products/services before
- Running of trials/POCs and subsequent recommendations for approval
- Development of design principles to guide future deployment
Qualifications
- Degree in Electrical, Electronics, Telecommunication Engineering, IT Computer Science or a closely related numerate discipline
- Above 5 years’ experience in a busy IT or Telecommunications environment –Involved in Strategy Modeling, Planning, Design and Optimization of Datacenter and Campus Networks
- In-depth understanding of Cisco Nexus NXOS Datacenter Networks Gear
- Router, Switches and NG firewall configuration (Cisco and Huawei)
- Mastery of IPSec Configuration and Troubleshooting Skills
- Network design and implementation experience, including working knowledge of IP addressing, TCP/IP Protocols, LAN and WAN configurations
- Knowledge in Cisco Unified Collaboration systems for Voice and Video Communications.
- Minimum CCNP or HCNP Network Certifications in any line (RS, Security, Wireless, Voice)
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Planning and Design of Datacenter & Campus Networks Solution to meet current as well as long term requirements
- Compilation of Datacenter & Campus Networks topologies, Network Diagrams, schematics and floor layout plans
- Plan and Oversee resources to conduct surveys and implementation plans that ensures timely implementation as per the project timelines
- Timely delivery of key milestones and ensuring that standards are adhered to at all times in the projects Rollout including trials and POCs.
- Liaison with implementation and support teams to ensure rollout follows the design and meets both the business and engineering specifications
- Definition of network KPIs , SLAs and acceptance procedures for new Services and management of service Transition to Support teams
- Overall Infrastructure resources utilization such as Materials, Spares, bandwidths, maintained within KPI targets as per KPI doc
- Capacity for traffic growth to be provided in accordance with overall projected growth · Planned expansions and upgrades to meet the capacity objectives at all times.
- Meet all the capacity and quality KPI’s in accordance with Tx target
- Timely identification and mitigation of all potential Bottlenecks to guarantee capacity and Quality.
- New enhanced features to be implemented as per the roadmap to continuously improve network capacity, quality and user experience.
- Planning, reviewing, optimization and evaluating the network performance as per own designs
- Impact Assessment Report of proposed new Datacenter systems, services showing anticipated improvement of identified KPI – network situation before/after change released during evaluation process.
- Creation of integration and functional acceptance tests documentation for every new Datacenter systems/products/services before
- Running of trials/POCs and subsequent recommendations for approval
- Development of design principles to guide future deployment
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Degree in Electrical, Electronics, Telecommunication Engineering, IT Computer Science or a closely related numerate discipline
- Above 5 years’ experience in a busy IT or Telecommunications environment –Involved in Strategy Modeling, Planning, Design and Optimization of Datacenter and Campus Networks
- In-depth understanding of Cisco Nexus NXOS Datacenter Networks Gear
- Router, Switches and NG firewall configuration (Cisco and Huawei)
- Mastery of IPSec Configuration and Troubleshooting Skills
- Network design and implementation experience, including working knowledge of IP addressing, TCP/IP Protocols, LAN and WAN configurations
- Knowledge in Cisco Unified Collaboration systems for Voice and Video Communications.
- Minimum CCNP or HCNP Network Certifications in any line (RS, Security, Wireless, Voice)
