Cisco Design Engineer

• Work timing Standard working hours 9 am to 5 pm, expected to be attending the office two days per week.

What you'll do:

• Elicit business and technical requirements working with the various stakeholders during requirements gathering phase.
• Author both high level and low-level design documents to support Telco services including presenting such designs for internal technical and stakeholder sign off.
• Own software/hardware selection, perform bug scrubs and security vulnerability assessments and work with test and implementation engineers to review test plans, defects, test reports, MOP and change tickets.
• Participate in vendor selection by providing technical requirements into RFP document and by doing technical evaluation including Technical Proof of Concept testing.
• Steer network elements feature roadmap by working closely with our strategic technology partners for software release planning, budget submissions and provide inputs for business case preparation.
• Drive platform improvements, enable automation and implement new solutions that enable DevOps capabilities and support business strategy of building once and deploy multiple time.

Must have skills

• IP networking and Routing/Switching such as MPLS, LDP, ISIS, BGP, ACL's and QoS
• Good understanding of Cisco IOS-XR product line such as ASR9K, NCS5K
• Good experience with service provider technologies for supporting carrier routing, switching and security
• Possess excellent communication skills to convey Risks, obtain sign-off, timely escalate issues to management, and send weekly project updates
• CCNP Service Provider certified

Good to have skills

• Ability to apply Open-config and Vendor specific NETCONF-YANG models, JSON and XML payload for network automation to configure and manage routers would be advantageous.
• Solid understanding of python, Ansible and config management via GIT
• ISP subscriber technology experience such as Nokia SROS, BNG, IPoE, PPPo