IP Projects and Execution Engineer at Equinix Nigeria in Victoria Island, Lagos

Position Overview

Proactively Executes Network Fulfilment Initiatives. Highlights concerns and leads solution when necessary.

Duties

• In charge of designing, combining and executing IP based solutions on the IPNGN network.
• Offering creative network initiatives and compelling OEMs when necessary.
• Pushing the organization's IPv6 plan.
• Network design, organizing, management and servicing & maintenance.
• IP multicast setup and IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR router deployments.
• Making sure expertise move for level-1 IP network operations center and applicable teams.
• Diagnosing issues and addressing WAN/LAN network access concerns.
• Coordinating bandwidth of the IP backbone for most effective effectiveness.
• Executing standard procedure checks and servicing & maintenance on all network elements.
• Routing procedure diagnosing issues expertise in a large-scale network (BGP, IS-IS OSPF, EIGRP).
• Robust expertise arranging and diagnosing issues Cisco routers and switches.
• Supervising of network elements and making sure prompt fix and restoration of all faulty/down sites/links.
• Installation, setup and servicing & maintenance of network tools which includes routers, switches and firewalls like Cisco ASA, Fortigate.
• Exploring current information repository and make endorsement to enhance operational structures, initiatives and methods.

Credentials

• Bachelors Academic qualification Or Equivalent Expertise.
• 3 - 5 years related experience is essential.
• Applicable specialist/technical qualifications like Cisco certified network associate, CCNP, JNCIS, (CCIE is a plus).

Competencies / Competences:

• Good visual communication and critical thinking.
• Connection Leadership abilities.
• Time & self-direction competencies.
• Capability to operate well under pressure.
• Good spoken communication and professional writing competencies.
• Good expertise in relationship building technical solutions - TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, VPNs, EVPN, VxLAN, SDWAN, SDN etc.
• Practical experience arranging Firewalls, Cisco and Juniper routers.
• Service supplier expertise in technical solutions like MPLS L2VPN, L3VPN, ISIS, BGP, Segment Routing.
• Proven capacity in designing and executing sophisticated, strong results networks with various branches and applications, ideally service supplier networks.
• Scripting expertise is a plus.