Senior Network Engineer – DWDM
Are you a Senior Network Engineer with specialist experience within Transmission and DWDM technologies including RLS, ROADM, transponders, including Ciena products .
Key benefits include:
* Salary to £80K
* Discretionary bonus up to 20%
* Private Medical
* 25 days holiday + birthday
This role will involve hybrid working and can be based out of either Milton Keynes or Manchester sites.
As a senior network engineer, you will be involved in the end-to-end lifecycle from design to developing scalable and secure solutions at pace.
Key responsibilities will include:
* Design and development of solutions to meet internal and external requirements
* Utilising skills, knowledge and expertise to solve complex technical problems
* Subject matter expert within DWDM
* Lead teams/ projects
Key skills required:
* In-depth knowledge of Transmission DWDM Technologies e.g. RLS, ROADM, and transponder with various vendors including Ciena.
* Experience of restful APIs, and JSON. (preferable)
* Knowledge of routing protocols and data networks. (preferable)
* Understanding of layer 2 and 3 technologies, with focus on Ethernet, MPLS, and TCP/IP (preferable)
* Experience in the use of Transmission management platforms, and inventory systems.Experience with Ciena MCP sought.
* Experience of mixed vendor environments, product life cycle, and technology migrations
* Experience in the delivery of Transmission networks in line with design documents
Additional skills of interest:
* Experience of feature, compliance, and regression testing
* Programming skills, especially Python etc.
* Software tools such as Splunk, Jira, and Ansible etc.
* Network monitoring and security