Network Specialist at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• To manage and Support Network staff and deliver input to the overall Network strategy

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Vendor Contract Management   
• Set SLA's with 3rd Party Line vendors   
• Set staff KPIs and Peer reviews   
• Report on Network Capacities within the BAU footprint   
• Manage Operational Team    
• Documentation   
• Asset Management    
• Skill Gap analysis    
• Drive Automation back to NetDevOPS   
• Ensure BAU Compliance against Technical Base Standards   
• Automation and IAC (Infrastructure as cloud)    

Technical skills

• All Popular Routing Protocols
• Advance IP Subnetting IPV4
• Cisco L2 and L3 Switches
• Configuration of Predefined Configs on all Cisco Hardware
• IPSEC
• Cisco ISE Skills
• QoS Troubleshooting
• Interrogate Wireshark Traces and identify packet issues
• Troubleshooting WIFI Issues
• Solid communication Skills
• F5 Configuration
• Network Monitoring like SolarWinds, Cisco Prime and NetFlow Tools
• Hardening of Network Devices and Cisco Software
• Cisco ACI Build and Maintain
• Project Management
• Task Management

Education and Experience

• CCNP or Above
• Matric
• ITIL
• Experience or Above Certs
• 10 Years Working for a large Corporate
• People Management
• AWS advanced networking certification
• Terraform certification
• People Management
• Project management experience
• Advanced Devops experience, Bitbucket, Python, Jenkins etc.   
• Basic network solution architecture