Network Specialist II

Description

Our team and what we’ll accomplish together

The IP Network Integrity (NI) team is a senior and highly technical team that many other areas rely on for assistance when things go wrong.

The NI team is responsible for supporting the core IP network nationally in TELUS, which supports all of our Voice, Video, peering and Internet traffic.

We work closely with both the front-line assurance teams to support our existing services as well as with the developers of the next generation technologies that will be deployed.

We are responsible for a wide range of technologies so there is always a new challenge technically to keep you interested.

In addition, we are now focusing on automation and innovation, trying to identify ways to reduce toil within the team by adopting principles like Site Reliability Engineering.

If you are passionate about technology, learning new things, supporting our partner teams and our customers, then look no farther.

Here is your opportunity to make your mark in a strong and established team who are looked up to by many different areas of TELUS for guidance and support.

This is the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience with many different IP services and to share what you already have with your team.

In addition, with our new focus on automation, you will be exposed to next generation capabilities including python coding, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment models, Ansible playbooks and other technologies that will change the way we work.

Description

What you’ll do

You will collaborate with a cross-functional team of dedicated and skilled technicians to :

• Quickly restore services impacting our customers
• Prepare documentation that your team can rely on and our partner teams can use for guidance
• Deploy automations to reduce toil and improve our ability to support our customers
• Leverage your Dev-Ops skills to help strengthen Dev-Ops practice within NI and TELUS

Qualifications

What you bring

• Strong knowledge of IP Core protocols used in Service Provider networks : OSPF, BGP, MPLS, ISIS, STP, etc
• Experience with the following hardware JUNIPER : EX, MX, QFX NOKIA : 7950, 7750, 7450 CISCO : ASR9k, NCS 5500, ME3400
• 2 to 5+ of years of experience as a Network Engineer
• Secondary certification, or equivalent, in Cisco, Juniper, or Nokia
• 24 / 7 on-call in a rotation with your peers

Great-to-haves

• Experience with TELUS-managed customers
• Understanding of Virtualization / SDN
• Knowledge of Access technologies (DSL / PON)
• Experience with legacy TELUS technology (, ATM, ECs, etc.)
• Post-secondary degree in a technical field
• Coding Language : Python, Typescript, Javascript, Bash, HTML
• DevOps : Gitlab CICD pipeline, Spinnaker
• Version Control : Git / Gitlab / Github / Bitbucket
• Front End Dev framework : React, NodeJS, Angular, Flask
5 days ago