Network Automation Architect

Family Description

Customer Services (CS) covers customer service in different areas such as technical support, account support, operations, maintenance, network design / deployment / integration / transformation, and education. Generates revenue and the increase of customer satisfaction through planning, designing, deploying, integrating, optimising, operating, and maintaining phases.

Subfamily Description

Care (CAR) comprises the support of customers (in line with contractual service agreements) and internal Nokia stakeholders in pre- and post-sales activities with technical and non-technical topics, including first level contact with customers for software and hardware incidents or requests. Ensures readiness of service delivery and covers the provision of recommendations to product houses on design for serviceability aspects. Contains escalation of key issues to appropriate functions.

Your skills and experience

The successful candidate will have strong technical, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills as well as being energetic, results oriented and will have knowledge and experience with some or all the following areas:

You have:

• Experience in consulting and providing professional services directly to external Customers
• Experienced in designing, deploying distributed/highly-available applications and systems
• Advanced knowledge of Network Management Systems concepts and protocols such as FCAPS, PCEP, NETCONF YANG, OpenFlow, SNMP, HTTP SOAP, JMS, REST
• Experience using Linux/Unix operating systems, databases technologies (Oracle, MySQL, PostGRE etc)
• Strong knowledge of IP/MPLS Network Management and protocols: IPv4 and IPv6, BGP, ISIS, OSPF, MPLS - RSVP-TE, LDP, etc., L2/L3 VPN, QoS, Security
• Knowledge of Optical Transport Networking: WDM, OTN, gMPLS, Add-Drop Multiplexing
• Knowledge of Software Defined Networking, SD-WAN, SDN Automation
• Experience with Service Assurance, OAM Testing & Reporting
• Knowledge of Big Data/Analytics concepts is an asset
• Knowledge of Virtualized Network Functions and Cloud Computing concepts and platforms such as OpenStack, VMWare, and hypervisor technology (KVM, ESXi)
• Software development educational background & experience: Object Oriented Design and Analysis, Java programming language, Perl, Python, Velocity Template Language, Javascript, JMS, C++ Programming, JBoss application server, Internet based applications using XML, HTTP/s, SOAP, RESTful, Ansible
• Multi-vendor OSS integration experience
• Make it happen attitude, inventive, resourceful and flexible in a fast-paced, challenging and ever changing environment.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.

EDUCATION

• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science, Telecom, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• IP, Virtualization, SDN and OSS training / certification is an asset.

• Provide NMS Solution Architecture leadership for NI led projects
• Provide NSP consultation workshops to Customers to enhance their experience of the product by leveraging the powerful features of Nokia s leading-edge Carrier SDN platform
• Provide guidance on NSP Application configuration and utilization based on project requirements and best practices
• Author HLD/LLD design, configuration, operational or test documentation as required for the project
• Provide guidance on NSP Integration with third party OSS and other Nokia Network Management Systems
• Provide northbound API expertise and consultation
• Develop and keep up to date consultation workshop material and design document templates
• Work closely with the global team and with Product Line Management to enhance professional services delivery, best practices and the overall customer experience
• The work can frequently be at customer premises for short durations of time (1 week typical), travel is a requirement for this posit