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Job Title: IP Infrastructure Designer (TSA & MPLS)

Location: Remote - UK Based

Salary/Rate: Up to £540 a day Inside IR35

Start Date: 16/09/2024

Job Type: Contract - Running untill 31/12/24 (with scope to extend)

Company Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading Telecommunication clients! They are currently looking for a skilled IP Infrastructure Designer who is familiar with the Telecommunication Security Act and MPLS to join their team.

The successful candidate for this role will have previous / current experience with TSA (Telecommunication Security Act).

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• Monitor the performance of the network against Telefonica UK KPIs, and to produce technical plans to maintain performance in a changing environment.
• Maintain the existing network standardisation policies, and where necessary proposal of new ones.
• Supporting the evaluation of vendor software release notes, bug reports, and security advisories.
• Production of routing designs for the to meet agreed service targets and resilience levels.
• Production of designs to enable service migrations.
• Supporting requirements capture, testing and implementation activities. This will require the production and agreement of requirement documentation, test cases and implementation plans.
• Liaising with equipment suppliers to confirm design assumptions, resolve operational performance issues requiring design changes, and attendance of vendor Technical Review Meetings.
• Ensure designs meet requirements relating to Architecture, Legal/Regulatory, Data Protection, and Security.
• Ensure all documentation is peer reviewed, including the review of other design engineers documents.
• Interact with UK Operations teams to ensure designs are fully accepted into an operational environment.
• Provide accurate data network design Consultancy to approved projects.
• Support and initiate process improvement activities
  
  

Required Skills/Experience

• TSA (Telcommuication Security Act) experience.
• Cisco Certification (e.g. CCIE)
• Juniper Certification (e.g. JNCIE, JNCIP, JNCIS, JNCDS)
• Experience in the areas of IP, MPLS, BGP network design in a service provider environment.
• A thorough understanding of IP, BGP, MPLS and associated protocols and features.
• Hands on experience with Cisco and Juniper Core networking technologies including Cisco CRS/ASR/7600 and Juniper MX/PTX family platforms.
• Understanding of Telecommunications Transmission Systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required for presenting complex technical concepts.
• Good experience of Change Control Processes
  
  

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience of working within a mobile network operator environment.
• Experience of working with session enablement and management technologies such as RADIUS, IP QoS and DNS.
• Experience in the areas of IP, MPLS, BGP network build and support in a service provider environment.
• Flexibility to support some out of hours network changes.
• Collaboration and solution leadership skills
  
  

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer

Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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