Automation Architect

Goal:

• Assist service delivery teams with toolings to allow them deliver project effectively and efficiently with standardized power tools (i.e., automation tools)
• Making sure automation tools are properly selected and used for service delivery. Right tool for the right tasks.
• Create power tools awareness in service delivery/customer engineering communities through workshops/trainings
• Build the regional Customer Engineering (CE) network automation center of excellence
• Support regional customization of standard power tools for network delivery and audit.

Responsibilities:

• Making sure automation tools are properly selected and used for service delivery.
• Interface with their RBC counterparts, where same profile exists, for coordination and alignment.
• Contribute to the tools architecture board discussions across IP service delivery organizations.
• Working closely with EDA strategy leader providing feedback on customer engagements and on the strategy.
• Learn networking technologies and familiarize with SROS and SRL configuration
• Perform requirements designation and importance analysis; perform verifiability analysis; perform risk analysis.
• Perform Use Case Analysis, scenario determination and develop sequence diagrams to support the requirements analysis, architecture & high-level design activities.
• Create automation delivery architecture/description document and user guides
• Maintain Requirements & Design traceability.
• Maintain traceability between requirement sets (Customer, System, Subsystems and System Elements), maintain traceability to architecture and design documents; support traceability to verification activities.

Key Deliverables:

• Provide automation delivery solutions using standard power tools (IP EDA tools primarily) and customization
• Provide effort estimates and maintain project plan when the customization is required.
• Deliver workshop/training how to engineering communities how to use power tools effectively and efficienctly.

Skills:

• Bachelor in Engineering or computer science with 7 years plus software development experience.
• Knowledgable in Python software development, Visual Basic/ Macro in MS Excel
• Knowledgeable in Unix environment as admin/root user familiar with Unix services: DNS, NFS, SSH, HTTP, FTP, DHCP, HTTP, etc.
• Knowledgeable on Virtualization/KVM, Container/Docker, NVF and related technologies.
• Knowledgeable in networking L2 and L3 on switch and router
• Have a good or excellent interpersonal skils and able to work as a team
• Knowledgeable on Network Management Systems, networking concepts and related technologies Knowing NBI/SBI prototocols, such as CLI, SNMP, REST API, gRPC, NETCONF/RESTCONF are a plus.
• Must be hands-on (love to get hands dirty)
• Knowledgeable on service provider deployment/operation, working on switches and routers are a plus
• Having a Nokia/Cisco/ Juniper network certification is a plus
• Willing and keen to learn new things.

Experience:

• Experience in design/implement/deploy a software
• Strong Linux/ Unix shell and datacenter networking knowledge
• Hands-on experience including design, build, deploy, debug or trouble-shooting & fault-finding, etc.

Technologies/Products:

• Nokia SDN & NFV portfolio Nuage, vEPC, VSR, NSP, SSG, etc.
• Nokia IP Router portfolio - 7x50 XRS/SR/ ESS/SRa and 7705/7210 portfolio
• Nokia EPC/CPC portfolio - SGW, PGW, MME, SGSN and vEPC
• VMWare ESXi, vCloud/vCenter, OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenFlow, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V
• RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, Java, Python/PERL etc.

Social Skills(behavior, attitude, language knowledge, ):

• Proven record in customer focus
• Analytical problem solver
• Proven presentation skills
• Flexible
• Eager to learn, willing to invest in continuous learning
• Fluent in English written and verbal communication.