Roles and Responsibilities

• 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)
• Create / Maintain Scripts / Utilities for FCAPS Tools Integrations / Certification / Maintenance
• Deployment of FCAPS Tools to Managed, HA and Geo-Redundant Data Centres
• Act as team representative for regular scheduled network management review meetings
• Provide coordination and act as a team interface between Network Engineering, Network Operations and Automation / Tooling Teams.
• Facilitate and coordinate work with external vendors for tooling regarding bugs / updates and upgrades 

 

Required Skills

• Basic understanding of telecommunication devices / components (data network - routers, switches, wireless controllers, access points, firewalls, voice – modern pbx components – call managers / voice gateways)
• 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)