Specialist - Network Engineer Data Centre at Vodacom

The Network Engineer, Data Centre will be responsible for leading a variety of engineering activities including the design, deployment and support of cloud networking solutions. In this role you will combine your skills of routing & switching in the data centre with emerging cloud networking technologies and use automation and scripting to deliver services to our growing cloud centric customer base.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Plan, implement and document solutions in a complex network environment in support of new and existing cloud technology architectures.
• Automate and monitor various data centre services.
• Work with Development and Operations teams to automate solutions and integrate with other services/products/solutions.
• To develop state of the art solutions which are technically sound.
• Define, implement and document operational processes and procedures, with periodic review for efficiency and improvement
• Support complex projects from inception to completion.
• Work collaboratively with customers and technology teams to ensure high quality of solution delivery.
• Encourage best practice and knowledge sharing with partners and cross-functional groups
• Provide recommendations as they pertain to improvements in support/development initiatives and facilitate implementation with partners and cross-functional groups within the Business.
• Participate in high level technical solution definition and design during the implementation phase with the goal of providing reliable, stable and operationally sound applications that meet the Business requirements.
• Ability to understand and translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Provide level 2 and level 3 support to internal staff and top customer.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation supporting systems to meet SLAs.

The Ideal Candidate For This Role Will Have

• Minimum of 3 to 5 years networking experience of which 3 years in a complex data centre environment and at least 1 year with a Service Provider.
• Minimum Cisco CCNP certification.
• Advanced experience with internet routing protocols and concepts: TCP/IP, VPN, MPLS, ISIS and/or OSPF, BGP.