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

Description

Reporting to the Senior Manager - Transport IP Planning & Design, the role holder is responsible for deploying the Data Centre & Campus Networks, the LAN, WLAN and WAN projects/solutions, Inter/Intra Telco and IT Data center connectivity Inter Office voice and video Communications.

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)