Network Operations Engineer in Islington
Join Sky's Network Operations team in Islington, where you'll work on core network capacity expansion upgrades and new projects/services.
Responsibilities
* Work closely with the Network Design team to review and understand business requirements, high‑level designs, and low‑level designs.
* Prepare provisioning procedures (MoP) for the deployment of Core Network capacity expansion upgrades/migrations and new projects/services.
* Deploy those procedures in the production network during out of business hours.
* Test procedures in lab environment and ensure successful, event‑less deployment in production network.
* Gain a high‑level detailed knowledge of hardware and software to consult on feature availability and performance with test engineers, design engineers and vendors.
* Support other team members, make suggestions and bring improvements.
Qualifications
* Solid experience with service provider technologies, understanding Core IP backbone, CDN, Peering and Transit (P&T).
* Good experience with IOS‑XR based platforms such as Cisco NCS/ASR routers (configuration, management & OS upgrade).
* Strong experience in ISIS, MPLS, BGP, QoS, Segment routing, EPE (egress peer engineering), EVPN, Telemetry.
* Great communication skills (both written and verbal) to convey risks, acquire sign‑off, call out issues to management, and send weekly project updates.
* Knowledge of Python, GIT for leading configuration templates, JINJA, NETCONF, YANG models is desirable.
Benefits
* Sky Q.
* Discounted mobile and broadband.
* Access to a wide range of outstanding Sky VIP rewards and experiences.
Location & Working Arrangements
Brick Lane office in the heart of the East End of London. Hybrid working supported.
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