NMS Engineer

Overall Purpose of the Job:

• To provide architectural and support functions to the Exponential-E’s internal and external Network Management Systems.
• Carrying out daily duties and necessary tasks on ongoing projects and implement new ones, as defined by your Manager.
• You will be a key part of the Network Management Systems team, your passion will contribute to Exponential-e continuous leading edge in the telecoms market.
• Working mainly with the Core Engineering, R&D, and DevOps Team, developing and maintaining software for cutting-edge technologies like SDN and SD-WAN.

Key responsibilities for this role

• Architecture, Design and Planning of all existing and new NMS systems, in order to support existing and new networks and services
• Install, configure and maintain all NMS systems
• Design, test, and validation of maintenance patches and minor code changes
• Daily administration and troubleshooting of Network Management Systems, and support all related applications
• Production of implementation and technical service documentation
• Provide support to the Customer Service teams
• Work in parallel with normal daily duties to deliver assigned projects
• Being able to provide out-of-hours support (24x7x365 rota)
• Deliver any other fair and reasonable task or duty assigned to you by your Manager

Primary requirements

• Existing SC clearance, or being able to obtain a new SC clearance
• SysAdmin on *nix production environments (RedHat, Centos, Ubuntu, etc)
• Network management principles, protocols and technologies
• Networking protocols and technologies
• Cloud technologies, VMWare vCenter
• SNMP, MIBs and related technologies
• DB servers (MySql, Postgre SQL, Cassandra) and SQL languages

Additional knowledge/skills

• Nokia NSP/NFM-P systems
• Ansible
• Programming languages (advanced Python, C#)
• Kafka
• Jit, Rancid
• XML, JSON
• IP routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS), MPLS
• Scripting languages (Python, Perl, etc)