Engineer – Datacenter & Campus Networks – Planning and Design at Safaricom Kenya

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Planning and Design of Datacenter & Campus Networks Solution to meet current as well as long term requirements
Compilation of Datacenter & Campus Networks topologies, Network Diagrams, schematics and floor layout plans
Plan and Oversee resources to conduct surveys and implementation plans that ensures timely implementation as per the project timelines
Timely delivery of key milestones and ensuring that standards are adhered to at all times in the projects Rollout including trials and POCs.
Liaison with implementation and support teams to ensure rollout follows the design and meets both the business and engineering specifications
Definition of network KPIs , SLAs and acceptance procedures for new Services and management of service Transition to Support teams
Overall Infrastructure resources utilization such as Materials, Spares, bandwidths, maintained within KPI targets as per KPI doc
Capacity for traffic growth to be provided in accordance with overall projected growth · Planned expansions and upgrades to meet the capacity objectives at all times.
Meet all the capacity and quality KPI’s in accordance with Tx target
Timely identification and mitigation of all potential Bottlenecks to guarantee capacity and Quality.
New enhanced features to be implemented as per the roadmap to continuously improve network capacity, quality and user experience.
Planning, reviewing, optimization and evaluating the network performance as per own designs
Impact Assessment Report of proposed new Datacenter systems, services showing anticipated improvement of identified KPI – network situation before/after change released during evaluation process.
Creation of integration and functional acceptance tests documentation for every new Datacenter systems/products/services before
Running of trials/POCs and subsequent recommendations for approval
Development of design principles to guide future deployment

Qualifications

Degree in Electrical, Electronics, Telecommunication Engineering, IT Computer Science or a closely related numerate discipline
Above 5 years’ experience in a busy IT or Telecommunications environment –Involved in Strategy Modeling, Planning, Design and Optimization of Datacenter and Campus Networks
In-depth understanding of Cisco Nexus NXOS Datacenter Networks Gear
Router, Switches and NG firewall configuration (Cisco and Huawei)
Mastery of IPSec Configuration and Troubleshooting Skills
Network design and implementation experience, including working knowledge of IP addressing, TCP/IP Protocols, LAN and WAN configurations
Knowledge in Cisco Unified Collaboration systems for Voice and Video Communications.
Minimum CCNP or HCNP Network Certifications in any line (RS, Security, Wireless, Voice)