Network Engineer, Germany

Contract Type : Contract
Place of work : Germany 

An International telecom company seeks to hire qualified professional as a Network Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring and supervision of the network and comms link performance, collection of statistics, detecting and investigating network anomalies and the testing and implementation and validation of corrective measures;
• Liaising with the internal and external providers of network services for anomaly resolution, scheduling of maintenance windows, and planning and co-ordinating changes to the service;
• Liaising with the system administrators of servers for investigation and resolution network related anomalies, and planning and co-ordinating changes;
• Installation and configuration of communications equipment (routers, switches, firewalls and multiplexers), tuning of operating parameters to optimize performance;
• Specification, implementation and support of quality and performance enhancing and optimization in support of multiple data flows across LAN and WAN links;
• Analyzing problems with satellite links;
• Analyzing SDH problems;
• Ensuring that in case of network equipment failures (including network monitoring platforms) the operational configuration can be restored, including the definition, maintenance, performance of associated recovery procedures;
• Monitoring of security configuration settings and implementation of security measures at the network level;
• Analysis, planning and performance of network evolutions, taking care of compatibility issues between subsystems;
• Support to S/W development and maintenance in relation to the utilization of system resources;
• Generation or update of technical documentation;
• Implementation and maintenance of excel-based repositories for allocated IP addresses, and switch port allocations;
• Provision of stand-by/on-call support;

Required Qualifications, Experience:

• Bachelors degree (or equivalent).
• At least 5 years experience in the administration and troubleshooting of networks in distributed systems.

Knowledge and hands-on experience with the following is mandatory:

• Experience of 24/7 operations;
• Cisco network equipment and architectures, Cisco IOS;
• Cisco security equipment and architectures, PIX, ASA, FWSM, IPSEC VPN, TACACS+;
• Routing protocols: OSPF, BGP, RIP;
• High availability network architecture and protocols e.g HSRP, VSS;
• Network management : JFF, Nagios, HP OpenView, Tivoli, Cisco Works, RMON, SNMP;
• Satellite communications : DVB, VSAT, Point to Point links;
• IP multicast and PGM;
• QOS and traffic shaping;
• WAN interfacing : using SDH, E1/E3, ISDN, leased lines;
• Timing systems : GPS receivers, NTP servers;
• Protocol analysers, Bit error rate testers;

Tools : Snort, tcpdump, iptables, cricket, iperf.

The consultant shall be familiar with the following HW/SW systems, particularly in the areas of network interface configuration, TCP stack configuration and high availability interface configuration:

1. Solaris, Linux, AIX , Microsoft Windows operating systems;
2. Configuration and monitoring of network protocols and applications, e.g. DNS, SNMP, FTP, NTP.
3. For supporting documentation tasks, experience is required with: Microsoft Office Suite, including MS-Visio.

Behavioural:
Ensures confidentiality of information

General rules:
- Please write in the subject the job title
- Any Mail without a similar job title will not be considered

If you match the above criteria and would like to be considered for this opportunity, please send your CV at:

hr@ictps.com

With title of the Job.