IP Networking Engineer

The client is looking for an IP Networking Engineer to work a 6 month extendable contract based in Frankfurt, Germany (Hybrid).

Requirements:

• Languages; English (fluent) & German (beneficial)
• IT-Experience: 10 years+ within IP Networking
• Based: 80% remote / 20% on site (Germany, Frankfurt)
• Knowledge: Customer NW of Vodafone (beneficial)

Skills Required:

IP and MPLS Communications

Conception, Planning & Design IP Networking

Very good knowledge within following Technologies:

• IP network connectivity in Datacenter (DC) environments
• BGP Design, Route Reflector, Internet Gateways IGW, Transit, Peering
• QoS, VoIP Integration, DiffServ, IntServ, Classifying, Scheduling, Marking, Queuing
• Carrier Scale Networks, MPLS Backbone, RSVP-TE and LDP, VPN Services L2VPN,
• L3VPN, VPLS, Carrier Grade Infrastructure (IP), Carrier Grade NAT, BRAS/BNG solutions
• Security, Encryption, IPSec, Access-List, Filter, Firewalls

L3 Technologies:

Very good knowledge in the area of all L3 Technologies:

• BGP, OSPF, ISIS, Segment routing and other routing protocols (RIPv2, EIGRP, PBR), BFD

MPLS Technologies:

Very good knowledge in MPLS Technologies:

• LDP, RSVP-TE, L2VPN, EVPN, L3VPN
• Inter AS MPLS to MPLS via Option A, B and C

L2 Technologies:

Very good knowledge in the area of all L2 Technologies:

• Building large DC using Ethernet technologies
• VPC, FabricPath, Switching, VLAN, Spanning Tree Free DC Topologies
• Ethernet, Ethernet OAM, Ethernet VPN, e-VPN
• Building Metro Network based on Ethernet
• QoS in Ethernet Switched Networks

QoS:

Very good knowledge in QoS Technologies:

• Classifying, Queuing, Scheduling algorithm,
• Marking, Shaping and Rate adaption
• Classifying in 8/4 classes on the edge/core, End-to End quality assurance, Expedite class forwarding for VoIP, LLQ – low latency queuing, Measuring jitter & delay, QoS header in IP/MPLS (explicit/implicit null), router tester simulations, IPSLA probes

Security:

Very good knowledge in different Firewall technologies and security analysis:

• Filter, Adaptive Filter, Zone modeling
• VoIP through Firewall technologies, Securing Router, Thread analysis, DDoS & DoS mitigation
• CoPP, ACL’s, private vlans, DAI

Very good knowledge in different tunnel Implementations:

• IPSec, GRE tunneling

Network Management:

Very good knowledge in Network Management Technologies:

• FCAPS and KPI Modelling in Performance Management with SNMP, NTP, Syslog, Netflow
• In-Band- as well as Out-of-Band Management Implementation

VoIP:

Very good knowledge within following Technologies:

• Integration of VoIP into IP Backbone and Access networks
• QoS adaption for VoIP
• IP Transit with VoIP exchange
• SIP

Multicast:

Very good knowledge in Multicast streaming services based on:

• IGMPv2, IGMP Snooping, PIM Sparse-Mode, PIM Dense-Mode
• Multicast RPF, MSDP, Anycast RP, Auto RP, BSR
• SSM (Source Specific Multicast), IPTV services

 

BRAS / BNG and AAA:

Very good knowledge setting up access networks:

• PPTP xDSL
• vDSL
• Radius
• TACACS+
• DSLAM

 

Network Platforms:

Large Experience with the following Platforms (extract):

• CISCO IOS / IOS-XR Routers (NCS, CRS, ASR9K, 7600)
• CISCO Switch Platforms (Nexus – 7000, 5000, 2000 series, Catalyst – 6800, 6500, 4900, 4500, 3×50…)
• Juniper Junos Router (MX-series, M/T-series)
• Juniper Firewalls (SRX series)
• Juniper Switch Platforms (EX series)

Please note: Due to urgent hiring the client has requested consultants already based in Germany.