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A strong network engineering background consisting of (but not limited to) the installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of large or small scale infrastructures consisting of routers, switches, console servers and optical transport equipment as well as extensive exposure to wireless and voice platforms. Possession of relevant skills to be able to troubleshoot and maintain and repair various network components on the infrastructure including routers, switches, console servers and optical transport equipment.Ability to verify capacity and perform ad-hoc rerouting of traffic or implement traffic management (qos/cos) Skilled in dealing with RMA requests through OEM vendors as well as perform tracking, maintaining and updating internal asset inventory of defective and replacement parts.Schedule and perform network maintenance, repair, and upgrade tasks as needed while limiting the impact on the production networkProvide support and expertise to teams located at remote data centres and be the liaison for them, work with other teams such as facilities and DC engineers to enlist their assistance with items such as power and racks as well as fault location and rectification of any cabling issues whether copper or fibre as well as identifying the relevant transmission devices. Very Strong working knowledge of Juniper(mx, ptx, srx and ex) /Cisco (IOS and Nexus and XOS) as well as Arista devices and Facebook open compute platforms, strong knowledge of DWDM technology as well as being able to troubleshoot devices such as Ciena/Cyan and Infinera and also troubleshooting of optical repeaters, possesses strong working knowledge of Linux OS (debian or redhat) for tools like (but not restricted to) netcat, TCP dump, nmap etc as well as a complete understanding of bash and Python scripts. Perform queue management for alarms, tasks and incidents as well as participating in ongoing deployment projects as well as ensuring all internal documentation is updated.

Listed skills include Data Center, Cisco Technologies, Network Administration, Cisco Ios, and 46 others.