Network Design Specialist

The skills youll need to succeed

The purpose of the Network Engineering Specialist engineer role is to lead the design of IP Internet/VPN technologies. Specifically, this role is accountable for:

• Design accountability for new features into T International’s network platforms.
• Provide thought leadership to senior internal stakeholders and customers regarding aspects of Global Reach platforms and/or customer solutions.
• Point of contact for technical expertise to senior stakeholders, internal and external.
• Mentor and share knowledge with others and be an advanced user of design tools.
• Create and develop architecture patterns and design techniques for customers.
• Lead on resolving customer impacting issues regarding the overall network platform and/or customer solution.
• Solve problems that tend to arise from the interaction of multiple components and usually are complex and unknown related to the overall IP Internet/VPN platform and/or customer solution and involve vendor interworking issues.
• Raise and resolve implementation issues with suppliers and other designers.
• Resolve in-life issues to overall network platform and/or customer solution, as appropriate.
• Lead a matrix team as appropriate within BT International.
• Estimate the time and type of resource needed to support deliverables with increasing cost impact and time duration.
• Drive transformation specifically in terms of automation,
• Specialist knowledge of IP/VPN technologies and vendors (Cisco/Juniper)
• Specialist knowledge of relevant emerging network/software technologies.
• Experience of leading matrix teams to deliver network designs and testing.
• Software development skills specifically in solving network issues / activities.
• Experience in resolution of customer impacting network issues.
• Prior experience of designing network solutions in a service provider setting.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD principles and tools such as Gitlab is essential.
• Working knowledge of automation test frameworks such as Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and/or Robot Framework is desirable.
• Hand-on demonstratable experience with core routing technologies (IS-IS, BGP, BGP-LS, SR-TE, SR IGP, PCEP, MPLS-VPNs)
• Understanding  and hand-on experience with Quality of Service (QoS).
• Expertise in developing frameworks for and automating test cases for systems in production
• Experience with data modelling with Yang (with a vendor neutral landscape in mind)
• Solid experience with gRPC, JSON.

Typical Certifications/Accreditations Attained or working towards include:

Member of a professional body e.g. Institution of Engineering and Technology

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) and/or Cisco DevNet Professional or equivalent experience.

Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Analyst (CTAL-TA) or equivalent

PCET - Certified Entry Level Tester with Python

PCEP - Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer

Robot Framework Certified Professional (RFCP) or equivalent

Leadership accountabilities

Experience you’d be expected to have

Leadership accountabilities of the job.

• Managing mixed discipline matrix teams and technical engineers.
• Ensure learning and personal development are a core part of work.
• Role model the leadership behaviors as set out in the connected leaders framework
• Work with pride, honesty and integrity
• Leader of matrix technology team.
• Delivery of IP network design
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Ability to lead / coach teams to change and develop an innovative, challenging, and supportive team culture.