Digital Communications Services Senior Engineer - 2

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION:

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

Services and Technology Professional Certification (e.g. ITIL CCIE SRA JNCIE or Devnet

3 years practical experience with the designing implementing and maintaining the core network architecture for large organizations

Relevant practical experience configuring troubleshooting and optimizing routers switches firewalls and other hardware/software networking elements

Experience in leading small teams

Experience in planning design system and services engineering and implementation of communication aspects of C4ISR

Modern digital communication networking techniques protocols and standards; communication

Networks specification design and testing with an emphasis on IP networks including IPv6 QoS MPLS MPBGP

Communications infrastructure and network service management and control

Familiarity with related international / commercial / industrial standards

Proven technical project management/lead experience with supported HLD LLD POCT SAT etc.

Documents

Experience working in an SLA / SOP driven IT organisation

Intermediate knowledge in authentication technologies

Proven experience with regards to design and implementation in large scale networks across vendors and technologies

A working knowledge of Python3 Git Ansible Terraform and/or scripting

3 years experience of operational and technical leading of an engineering team

Additional:

Knowledge and experience of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)/Software Defined (SDx) (e.g. SDN SDWAN SDDC or SASE)

Knowledge and experience in deploying and managing SegmentRouting (SR) and SRv6 based networks

CI/CD pipeline IaC and NetDevOps experience. Demonstrable evidence in maintaining knowledge of advances in Information Technology

Knowledge and experience in applying ITIL COBIT and eTOM principles and methodologies applied to effective Service Management and Control

Experience with centralised management systems e.g. DX NetOps Spectrum Catalyst Center Splunk and/or CISCO ISE

Public cloud experience and CSP certifications from Azure AWS or GCP

An understanding of IP packet encryption Firewall and Intrusion Detection System Technologies

Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements

Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization including ACO and ACT

Systems design

Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and tradeoffs

Ensures that the system design balances functional and nonfunctional requirements

Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods tools and techniques are applied effectively

Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks

Adopts and adapts system design methods tools and techniques

Contributes to development of system design policies standards and selection of architecture components

Network design

Produces or approves network providers network architectures topologies and configuration databases for own area of responsibility

Specifies design parameters for network connectivity capacity speed interfacing security and access in line with business requirements

Assesses networkrelated risks and specifies recovery routines and contingency procedures

Creates multiple design views to address the different stakeholders concerns and to handle both functional and nonfunctional requirements

Systems integration and build

Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration

Identifies evaluates and manages the adoption of tools techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework

Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration

Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design

Assesses risks and takes preventative action

Measures and monitors applications of standards

Contributes to the development of organisational policies standards and guidelines for systems integration

Network support

Drafts and maintains procedures and documentation for network support and operation

Makes a significant contribution to the investigation diagnosis and resolution of network problems

Ensures that all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures