Job Description
Overall purpose of the job:
You will be working as part of the Core Network Operations team who are responsible for all aspects of maintaining the core network and configuring customer solutions. This team sits at level 4 of the engineering hierarchy and is responsible for providing advanced support for the 2nd and 3rd line service desk teams and the network infrastructure used to deliver services to customers. This includes the MPLS, Data Centre and Optical network. 
Key responsibilities for this job:
Work on projects predominately involving maintenance of the existing Infrastructure and introducing any service improvement and automation
Implementing projects within the deadline.
Acting as a senior technical escalation point within the Core Network Operations team for both faults and network changes.
Provide technical support for the development, implementation and administration of new and existing services
Ensure the timely and accurate delivery of technology products and services
Interface with multiple areas of technology and multiple departments to support in implementation of new solutions and products
Act as a technical mentor to other engineers
Where required you would be expected to work directly with the other teams within the business which include the Service Desk and the Implementation teams.
Due to the nature of the role you will be expected to fulfil some of your tasks out of hours and to be part of the on-call rota.
Any other fair and reasonable task or duty assigned to you by your Manager, or other senior Exponential-e Ltd staff member Knowledge and experience required:
Experience with various methods of load balancing
Strong troubleshooting ability
Service Provider networks
MPLS, L3 VPN
Routing protocols (inc. IS-IS & BGP, OSPF)
Switching protocols (preferably VRRP, VPLS, Dot1Q, QinQ) Desirable knowledge and experience:
Working knowledge of SDN concepts
EVPN/VXLAN
Experience with BGP Peering, Transit
Scripting skills (Python / Bash / similar)
Nokia 7450 & 7750 switches
F5 Load Balancers
Fortigate firewalls
Optical Multiplexers