Candidate will become Tooling Engineer/SME of specific Fault, Configuration Management, Accounting, Performance or Security Management Tools (FCAPS) during it’s specific lifecycle phase:
Accounting and Security Management Tools are Vendor specific AAA (Authentication / Authorization / Accounting) Tools that ensuring the fact that only the specific user or system accounts can enter and authorized to the network devices and recording the logs (TACACS / RADIUS)
Configuration Management Tools are either Vendor or Developed Utilities / Scripts that entering to the network devices through CLI / API methods, discovering the devices and collecting diagnostics / execute specific commands.
Fault and Performance Management Tools are Alerting / Performance Management Tools, that are mainly Vendor Products to discover, poll the network devices or receiving SNMP traps / alerts, telemetry information or syslog messages
Ownership during end-to-end lifecycle of FCAPS Tools - From Proof of Concept -> Pilot -> Deployment / Production -> Regular Maintenance -> Decommission
Interoperability Testing of new Versions of FCAPS Tools, testing against underlying Enterprise Infrastructure elements compatibility
Validate network devices against FCAPS Tools - check Monitoring, Configuration gathering functions and to make sure the network devices and components modelled properly also in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
Understanding of network management protocols, concepts, and enterprise infrastructure services (SNMP, Syslog, NTP, DNS, AAA/LDAP, API)
Understanding of Technical Asset Lifecycle Management Workflows, Vendor issued End of Life notices / Certification / Inventory / Component level of mgmt.
Basic understanding Enterprise Linux system
Previous experience of using Enterprise infrastructure components (Server Operating System or Hypervisor or Container or Storage or Network or Enterprise A uthentication Methods)
Experience with Agile/DevOps network automation workflows
Basic scripting experience is required (Python or Shell)