System Engineer

Our client provides a global platform that merges the local networks of all their alliance partners, forming a single Software-Defined Network (SDN). Leveraging the advantages of virtualization technology and automation, they facilitate a flexible end-to-end configuration and provisioning of all services, thereby enabling local alliance partners to deliver consistent data connectivity services to their enterprise customers on a global scale.

An exciting, dynamic, international start-up environment awaits you with an open corporate culture of flat hierarchies. At our client, responsibility will be in your hands from the very beginning. You will continuously grow both on the professional and personal front amongst a diverse team of more than 20 nationalities, varied age groups and a wide range of skill-sets. This fusion will prepare you for paving the world with our client´s leading SD-WAN technology.

Job description, responsibilities and duties:

• SA & HM Engineering Activity:

• • implementing designs and concepts from the architecture level in the area of monitoring and service assurance

  • creation of design proposals and Proof of Concepts in the area of monitoring and service assurance

  • low-level troubleshooting on system and application level

  • creation and implementation of automation workflows

  • application/system research and reverse engineering of open source projects or enterprise solutions in a given area

  • designing of data pipelines

• Technical Management:

• • the bridge between operation team and technical architecture

  • subtask distribution and tracking towards operation team

  • regular reporting on given tasks

• Collaboration:

• • the entry point for advanced bugs, issues and functional enhancements

  • follow up meetings and negotiations

  • support for operation team

  • technical training for engineering and operation teams

  • calls with vendor counterparts if required by technology and contract

• Release Management:

• • CI/CD contributor

  • 4 eyes reviewer

• End to End Delivery:

• • technical handovers

  • LLD documentation as the outcome of given tasks

  • working independently with high technical intuition

  • subtasks completion and delivery

• Vendor contact:

• • creation of vendor tickets for advanced and complex issues, bugs, clarifications

  • Design and develop test cases, perform regression tests, maintain the test suites, validate new features & troubleshoot automated network services, service orchestration and SD-WAN related features

  • Understand requirements, scope the effort needed for validating the features, translate use cases into a test plan

  • Execute test cases, debug, investigate and track issues

  • Work with automation engineers to transfer the knowledge and discuss steps needed for automation test cases

  • Contribute to the test and release plan, collaborate with test automation engineers

  • Help to create network assessment documentation including workflows

    Requirements:

• Successfully completed university degree in CS or a similar subject with 3+ years of working experience

• Experience with one or more opensource and enterprise monitoring tools, profound in java/javascript, ansible or other automation wofklow, system scripting/automation, Linux administration, git versioning, networking knowledge on CCNA level, skilled at least in one of the technologies: Kafka, Elastic, StreamSets, Logstash, Moog.

• You're proactive, able to work independently and possess the flexibility to act convincingly within agile structures

• Windows administration, python basics, experience with ServiceNow, GitLab, Docker, data engineering and analytics

• Creating documentation and communicating fluently in English is no problem for you

• Knowledge in area of monitoring or service assurance, familiar with capacity management, skilled in system management and system administration incl. troubleshooting, cooperation with vendors or public community, self-reliant, oneself presentation

• English (B2)