Engineer Fixed Access Solutions & Aggregation

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This Dubai onsite, full-time role seeks an Engineer for Fixed Access Solutions & Aggregation, holding CCNP with seven years in telecom IP networking; you will provide timely troubleshooting across fixed access and aggregation, coordinate with vendors, analyze performance trends, maintain configuration baselines, and support capacity planning with reporting. Meet service owners, manage trouble tickets, contribute to DR runbooks, and ensure redundant and documented network elements. Proficiency in multi-vendor environments (Cisco Nokia Huawei), security, WAF and load balancing, and Unix/infra virtualization is essential, with a strong customer focus. To apply, quantify outcomes from outages and DR improvements, and confirm UAE work eligibility and willingness to be onsite in Dubai.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide the needed-on time support and troubleshooting for all issues happens in Fixed Access and Aggregation domains, since connectivity provided through IP.
• Do the needful escalation and involve vendors on time affecting manner in case of need and ensuring adequate follow up and problem resolution within contracted SLAs.
• Performing periodic analysis of performance reports and observations to proactively prevent issues from occurring
• Overall responsibility that periodic reviews of devices configuration to remove any wrong or unneeded configuration are done
• Meeting with service owners as customers to understand their problems and giving proper response for their queries.
• Handling daily Trouble Tickets as per du operation policies and scope of work.
• Oversee the provisioning of periodic and ad-hoc reports to planning team to help in the capacity planning and future upgrades of service delivery platforms and Data-Centers network.
• Providing the needed update for RFO – Reason for outage (if any)/following up all recommendation to avoid re-occurrence of similar faults till it take place.
• Assisting different planning teams/Acceptance Team in all Network Nodes Integrations, propose/attend ATP to assure redundancy, symmetry and best ways of integration are used.
• Maintains an up-to-date documentation/diagrams of the existing devices/solutions to help in troubleshooting issues and share them with other technical teams if required
• Work closely with planning team(s) on capacity planning, upgrades, and design issues related to existing solutions
• Perform periodic health checks, preventive maintenance service delivery platforms and Data Centers network to identify potential problems or loopholes and testing the redundancy.
• Ensure that all network elements and support systems are appropriately redundant and backed up in accordance with agreed policies wherever applicable.
• Implement patches and updates of the service delivery platforms and Data-Centers network devices to resolve any existing/potential bugs or performance issues.
• Review all the documentation presented by either vendors or Network Development for any new network elements or technologies introduced into the network.
• Ensure consistency of network configuration and configuration database
• Prioritize & ensure the execution of performance, preventive maintenance related issues as the owner of the platform
• Coordinate with acceptance for all the changes in the network and ensure that the knowledge base is updated. 
• Ensure monitoring and analysis of vendor performance as well as managing the vendor relationship together with the Vendor Management Organization
• Develop technical reports and documentation
• Work on any network disasters, prepare and implement alternative plans and finally restore network to deliver specified service levels. 
• Support all efforts for releasing DR runbooks in order to allow for successful service restoration in case of crisis.
• Review, approve, prepare MOP and implement CRs for different du business needs

Qualifications:

• Minimum bachelor's degree in computer, electrical, network Engineering or IT (any telecom equivalent) 
• Cisco Certified Network Professional – CCNP 
• Knowledge of handling Unix, and Infra Virtual Platforms as System Admin
• Knowledge of Security protocols and Applying WAF and Load Balancing Rules for Application flows

Experience:

• Minimum 7 years of experience in IP Networking for telecommunication industry
• Deep Knowledge of all Routing/switching Layer 3 and Layer 2 protocols, and high-level layers protocols as per OSI and TCP/IP stacks.
• Knowledge of Infra and networks and implementation and maintenance of access layer as well as IIB implementations.
• Should have experience on Cisco, Nokia and Huawei Routers / Switches 
• Deep Knowledge of high Application balancing and WAF Rules, Security policies, roaring, switching, Multi-Vendor Access Networks. 

Skills

• Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Teamwork and Cooperation
• Good communication skills
• Initiative and Commitment to Achieve
• Excellent understanding of security infrastructure components and building highly available computing environment
• Good understanding of served and systems need to be secured like, BSS/OSS solution, mobile and fixed known services.
• Detailed knowledge of security solutions operation techniques
• Must have exceptional customer focus – internally and externally.
• Able to handle multiple complex problems in a highly stressful environment.