Senior Systems Engineer, Adv Comms

NCS is a leading technology services firm that operates across the Asia Pacific region in over 20 cities providing consulting digital services technology solutions and more. We believe in harnessing the power of technology to achieve extraordinary things creating lasting value and impact for our communities partners and people. Our diverse workforce of 14000 has delivered large-scale mission-critical and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region.

As a Senior Network Engineer you will be working as a consultant responsible in providing network project implementation post-sales consultancy and network maintenance support particularly in the area of network architectures (LAN Data Centre and WAN). You will also be involved in hands-on operations in network maintenance.

Progressively you will own technical design in implementation of technical solutions. Ensuring quality technical solutions and drive towards the highest levels of customer satisfaction and improvement in professional standards.

Responsibilities:

• Manage/implement network infrastructure projects covering in area of Telecom Networks (LAN & WAN) and security system.
• Manage/implement by project basis working with project team members in implementing and delivering projects till commissioning.
• Assist Project Manager in various aspects of project implementation including network design site preparation risks identification and mitigation
• Tasks include performing network/systems configurations troubleshooting errors/problems monitoring and/or testing systems performance and contribute to the design of technical solutions for customer environments adherence to scope of work.
• Proactively provides solutions to prevent problems from occurring and/or to provide resolution for technical issues.
• Gather business and/or application requirements on the infrastructure to plan design install test & implement systems in accordance with the specifications & service level.
• Aligned or enhanced ITSM/ITIL methodologies in daily operations e.g. Change Incident problem release management & CMDB.
• Respond promptly to incident root cause analysis & provide temporary and/or permanent resolution of incidents escalated. Provide timely status updates to relevant parties.
• Implement service continuity measures i.e. backup/restore procedures & disaster recovery plan to ensure continuous operation of the business.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all implemented networks.
• Assist in preparation of proposals and solution presentations.
• Drive adoption of model-driven telemetry SDN controllers and intent-based networking.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of AI-assisted or autonomous network use cases such as:
• Proactive fault detection and root-cause analysis
• Predictive capacity management
• Automated remediation and closed-loop operations

Requirements

• Diploma/ Degree in IT-related discipline
• 3 5 years of hands-on experience
• Experienced in implementing and administrating network devices such as Switches Routers Firewalls.
• Experienced in implementing and administrating advanced network routing protocols such as BGP MP-BGP EIGRP OSPF network Security.
• Experienced and knowledgeable in implementing MPLS L3VPN L2VPN EVPN Segment routing etc.
• Experience implementing advanced switching technology including DC Fabric Fabric path MC-Lag VPC VXLAN etc.
• Experienced in Administration and troubleshooting in network environment.
• Exposure with carrier-grade network equipment (Cisco ASR9K NCS5500 N9K Huawei NE5000E NE40E Juniper MX2000 MX960 etc) will be added advantage.
• Certifications such as CCIE/HCIE/CCNP and other relevant IT industry certificates will be preferred.
• Possess good analytical and trouble-shooting skills in the area of technical fault isolation and rectification
• Possess good working knowledge in multiple vendor equipment like Cisco Juniper Huawei router.
• Practical experience with network automation and scripting (Python preferred).
• Familiarity with automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible Terraform or equivalent.
• Experience working with SDN controllers telemetry and streaming data is an advantage.
• Knowledge of AI/ML concepts applied to networking or autonomous networking frameworks is highly desirable.

Personal Attributes

• Highly motivated and have the aptitude and attitude to continuously upgrade and refresh the knowledge in networking technologies.
• Good inter-personal organizational problem solving and teamwork skills.

We are driven by our AEIOU beliefsAdventure Excellence Integrity Ownership and Unityand we seek individuals who embody these values in both their professional and personal lives. We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients Growing our people and Creating our future.

Together we make the extraordinary happen.

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