Network Test Engineer
3 months contract to start with (INSIDE IR35)
Bradford (2 to 3 days onsite)
Must Have : Hands on technical knowledge & experience of Layer 2 Metro Ethernet networks, Layer 3, preferably Cisco Kit, SDWAN :
Key Skills Required
A highly technical, experienced hands on resource with experience of managing, coordinating, facilitating & executing test plans, defect management and status reporting; primarily for Layer 2 & Layer3 work, SDWAN features.
assistance with test environment design
commissioning & installing (kit, software, test environment)
configuring
monitoring
service testing & trouble shooting
basic networking Must Have : Management, facilitation & testing :
coordinating resources for testing (people, kit, etc.)
managing & executing testing of the service, including SIP trace collection, management & review
defect investigation & management
documentation (process updates, test plans, test results, config documents etc.)
regular status reports as agreed
good time management skillsKey Experience Required
Must have : Layer 2 networking experience, eg LAGs, spanning tree, control frame tunnelling, CoS/QoS, TACACs, SNMP, FTP, SSH, NTP, ACLs, layer 2 device configuration & management
Traffic generators, layer 3 protocols & CIsco IOS, Cisco SDWANRole Specifics
Supporting Document
Should have : MEF certification, Layer 3 network experience, Ixia traffic generator, Cisco IOX, CIsco IOS XR, Ciena SAOS 8.x.x, SAOS 10.x.x
experience with Jira for sprint planning, updates, defect management
experience with Confluence for documentation repositoryGCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy