Network Consultant to assist OTI management and operation our IP networks. Relevant experience is routing and switching, load balancing, datacentre technologies is required. Consult will be assisting OTI with architecture design planning, implementing changes, and managing troubles. Additionally, consultant will assist OTI with day-to-day tasks around operations of networking include MOP development and reviews, task assignments, ticket resolutions etc.
SCOPE OF SERVICES
- Participate in design calls from a Network perspective on assigned projects.
- Propose a networking solution to meet the business requirements and at the same time meet OTI’s Best practices guidelines
- Discuss with the OTI Architect team for any uniqueness in the solution proposed
- Submit BOM Build for installing new network devices
- Follow OTI process for new devices commissioning
- Configure ports, configure new switches, and apply the base templates configurations, integrate the switch into production network
- Create change tickets, pursue approvals, and respond to any questions that may be raised by any of the OTI teams
- Create and review method-of-procedure for the change to be executed during the pre-approved change window
- Open TAC cases as needed and identify root causes
- Schedule, coordinate and execute resiliency failover testing as directed by the manager of the group
- As part of any decommissioning activity: remove legacy configurations, remove unused IP subnets, ports from documentation, and update network diagrams, following OTI guidelines
- Complete any additional tasks assigned by the manager of the group, in the area of and load-balancing
MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
- Minimum five years of experience in the field of networking
- Must have hands-on experience with BGP, MPLS, OSPF routing protocols in a large environment
DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
- Hands on experience in Cisco’s ACI technology
- Additional experience in the field of load balancing
- Good project management skills