IP VPN Network Specialist Ipswich, England
BT
Full Time
Ipswich, England
41029 - 48561 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
IP VPN Network Specialist
Job Req ID: 19648
Posting Date: 17 Jul 2023
Function: Engineering
Location:
Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive with Great Benefits
Why this job matters
The purpose of this role is to lead on the design of our SDWAN / VPN platforms.
The purpose of the Specialist Network Designer role is to deliver network design authority for SDWAN/VPN network platforms and/or customer solutions. Specifically this role is accountable for:
The purpose of the Specialist Network Designer role is to deliver network design authority for SDWAN/VPN network platforms and/or customer solutions. Specifically this role is accountable for:
- Driving efficiency and scalability through the re-use of SDWAN/ VPN network designs and ongoing in-life operation of designs across the overall SDWAN network platform and/or customer solution.
- Typically leading a matrix (virtual) team of technical experts/contractors to deliver network design solutions and provide technical thought leadership to a larger matrix team. The sphere of influence for the matrix team will be from a technical perspective.
- Acting as a technical ambassador for the company and providing expert technical consulting to customers at a platform and/or overall solution level.
- Deciding on design scope and design of the overall SDWAN/VPN network platform and/or customer solution.
This role can be based in the following BT Locations: Birmingham, Ipswich, Manchester
What you’ll be doing
The purpose of the Specialist Network Design engineer role is to lead the design of VPN technologies specifically focussed on SDWAN development. Specifically this role is accountable for:
- Design authority for SDWAN / VPN platform.
- Provide thought leadership to senior internal stakeholders and customers regarding aspects of SDWAN / VPN platform and/or customer solutions.
- Point of contact for technical expertise to senior stakeholders, internal and external.
- Mentor and share knowledge with others, and be an advanced user of design tools.
- Create and develop architecture patterns, and design techniques for BT and/or customers.
- Lead on resolving customer impacting issues regarding the overall network platform and/or customer solution.
- Solve problems that tend to arise from the interaction of multiple components and usually are complex and unknown related to the overall SDWAN/VPN platform and/or customer solution and involve vendor interworking issues.
- Raise and resolve implementation issues with suppliers and other designers.
- Resolve in-life issues to overall network platform and/or customer solution, as appropriate.
- Lead a matrix team as appropriate within the SDWAN / VPN programme and also contractors/apprentices within the team.
- Estimate the time and type of resource needed to support deliverables with increasing cost impact and time duration.
- Drive transformation specifically in terms of automation
Skills required for the job
- Specialist knowledge of IP/ IP VPN (Cisco/Juniper) or SDWAN (particularly Nokia)
- Specialist knowledge of relevant emerging network/software technologies.
- Experience leading matrix teams to deliver
- Software development skills specifically in solving network issues / activities.
- Experience in resolution of customer impacting network issues.
Experience you would be expected to have
- Leader of matrix technology team.
- Delivery of IP network design
- Strong collaboration skills.
- Ability to lead / coach teams to change and develop an innovative, challenging and supportive team culture.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- 10% on target bonus
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme
- Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
- 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
- Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages (BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment)
- 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
BT
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London, United Kingdom
Philip Jansen
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Company - Public
Telecommunications Services
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