Vitel Wireless Limited has become a renowned company in the industry for our expertise and has contributed to several standards and innovations in data gathering and analysis in the African continent. Vitel has a Private Network Lines (Local Exchange Operator) service license and has had experience in the telecommunication business. Our vision is to leverage the dominance of large telecom operators in delivering cost-efficient services and establish interoperability with these operators for new, fast-growing services to the consumer.
Job brief:
- Enterprise Infrastructure Network Engineers (Operations and Engineering) with strong technical knowledge of CISCO high-end equipment. Selected candidates will be part of the team focused on network design, architecture planning and roadmap evolution, and systems support.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage the network infrastructure with a focus on backbone and internet routing.
- Develop and maintain network architecture and infrastructure plans capable of supporting mid-scale distributed systems.
- Troubleshoot network issues and outages and implement solutions to prevent recurrence.
- Collaborate with other engineering groups to ensure our network infrastructure continues to support applications and services effectively.
- Monitor network performance and integrity and adjust as needed to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
- Ensure all network infrastructure is compliant with industry standards and best practices.
- Provide technical support and guidance to other team members.
- Participate in on-call rotation for network support.
- Build tools in support of network data analysis and production execution
- Analyze data to diagnose and identify root causes of network and tooling issues.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 3+ years of professional experience in network engineering, with a focus on backbone and Internet routing.
- 3+ years experience in understanding and mitigating network hardware and topology failures.
- Proficiency in MPLS Traffic Engineering, BGP and OSPF routing.
- Proficiency in Python, or other similar programming languages.
- Experience in designing, deploying and operating networks at scale.
Preferred Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
- Experience with troubleshooting problems as relates to at least one networking system or platform (IP, Optical, Web servers, load balancers, storage systems etc).
- Experience with developing software in the context of building and/or operating large scale networking systems.
- Experience with secure tunneling and VPN protocols.
- Experience with network function virtualization, SDN applications and protocols such as OpenFlow
- Proficiency in Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration.
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