Routing Engineering: Design and implement advanced BGP policies (Path Selection, Community strings, Filtering) to optimize multihoming and peering traffic across multiple IXPs.
MPLS and VPNs: Design, configure, and maintain the MPLS core, including LDP/RSVP-TE and deployment of L3 VPN services (VRF) and L2VPNs (VPLS/VPWS) for enterprise customers.
Optimization and QoS: Perform Traffic Engineering (TE) using RSVP-TE to ensure deterministic paths and apply QoS policies (DiffServ over MPLS) to prioritize critical services (Voice and Video).
Resilience: Implement high-availability and fast-convergence mechanisms such as BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection) and MPLS FRR (Fast Reroute) to meet stringent SLAs (five nines).
PE) and CGN (Carrier-Grade NAT) solutions, and design IPv6 transition strategies (Dual Stack or DS-Lite).
Level 3 Troubleshooting: Lead resolution of complex incidents involving packet loss, microbursts, high latency, and protocol failures (BGP session flapping, OSPF/IS-IS adjacency issues).
Requirements
Education: Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications, Information Technology, or a related field.
Core technical skills: External Routing; BGP (Border Gateway Protocol); strong command of iBGP and eBGP, Route Reflectors (RRs), advanced path selection policies, attribute manipulation (AS_PATH prepending, MED, Local Preference) and use of Community strings.
MPLS Core: MPLS and VPNs; proven experience with LDP and RSVP-TE. Configuration and operation of L3 VPNs (M-BGP and VRFs) and L2VPNs (VPLS or VPWS/Ethernet VPN
EVPN).
Interior Routing: IGPs (OSPF or IS-IS); proficiency in designing hierarchical areas, optimizing metrics and ensuring fast convergence. Preferably with IS-IS experience.
High Availability: Resilience and convergence; practical knowledge of MPLS FRR, BFD and use of Non-Stop Routing (NSR) or Graceful Restart (GR).
Hardware: Carrier routers; hands-on command and configuration experience on high-capacity routing platforms (e.g., Cisco NCS/ASR series, Juniper MX series, or Huawei/Nokia platforms).
Addressing: IPv4 and IPv6; scalable addressing planning. Knowledge of IPv6 transition strategies (e.g., Dual Stack, DS-Lite, NAT444).
Differentiators: Expert-level Service Provider certifications (e.g., CCIE Service Provider, JNCIE-SP).