WAN Design Engineer
The Global Network Engineering organization is seeking a WAN Design Engineer to provide subject matter expertise in support of the Global WAN which spans all business units and regions. This role will create the Low-Level Design (LLD) and Deployment Engineering plan for projects which optimize, enhance or expand our connectivity footprint for consumption of Revenue, Non-Revenue, and Cloud based resources. Additionally, this role will work closely with security compliance and engineering teams, implementing and maintaining a secure network infrastructure to adhere to stringent Regulatory, Governmental, and Industry security control requirements.
Responsibilities include:
- Provide network design and implementation strategies, migration plans, and technical project support for medium to high complexity projects.
- Tests and evaluates network systems to eliminate problems and make improvements.
- Prepares Business Cases, financial analysis spreadsheets, deployment plans, and detailed bills of materials in preparation for presentation to Leadership for new deployments
- Perform hands on configurations for new deployments
- Prepares Build documents and Operational Support procedures and performs knowledge transfer to Build Factory and Run team to ensure a smooth onboarding of new deployments
- Design, implement and manage the network and security systems within a secure multi-tenant cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.) environment.
- Works in support of Build Factory new demand for Infrastructure projects including configuring, troubleshooting, optimization and requirements gathering for Build and Run teams
- Provides direct support, including after hours, for new deployments which have not yet been transitioned into Build Factory and Run teams
- Provides technical guidance for broader solution delivery initiatives
- Provides support, including after hours, for Tier 4 escalated operational issues
- Provides engineering expertise in identification of process improvement and automation opportunities
- Maintain deep technical knowledge of different Network and Cloud technologies and supporting solution areas and develop new technology integrations and solution capabilities.
- Convey technical information/solutions to audience using whiteboards, presentations or written communications in a workshop format.
- Responsibilities include executive and technical-level communications and relationship building to gain credibility/trust of internal and external customers.
- Consult, assess or audit, design and interview stakeholders to resolve highly technical requirements.
- Research, evaluate and stay ahead of curve on emerging tools, techniques and technologies.
- Demonstrate strong ‘Consultative based mindset’ with strong listening and collaboration skill for uncovering unmet technology-based needs and translating the requirements into strategic solutions
- High motivation level and appetite for fast-paced team environment; readily adaptable to changing market and organization requirements
- Problem solving mentality using internal and/or external resources
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Cisco CCNP certification or higher required.
- Expert level understanding and implementation of commonly deployed WAN technologies and concepts – P2P, MPLS, VRF, Wave, SONET, DWDM, SDWAN, WAN Optimization - is a requirement.
- Expert knowledge of Layer 3 technologies, including - IPv4, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, PIM, HSRP, DMVPN, NHRP, and GETVPN – is required.
- Expert knowledge of Layer 2 technologies, including - Spanning-Tree, VLANs, QinQ, Dot1q – is required.
- Expert knowledge of Traffic prioritization technologies and techniques including – QoS, TOS, COS, LLQ, CBWFQ, WFQ, Shaping, Policing, MPLS-VPN QoS – is required.
- Proven expertise working with Global Telecommunications carriers.
- 10+ years of validated experience in managing, provisioning, and designing network technologies in a large globally diverse environment.
- Expert-level hands-on configuration of networking equipment, management tools and network analyzers.
- Ability to write detailed methods of procedure and maintain documentation including the creation of Visio drawings.
- Network Automation experience with Python and/or Ansible strongly
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Experian is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Anyone needing accommodation to complete the interview process should notify the talent acquisition partner.