As support to a European space company we are looking for a
Communication and Network Engineer
for Operations

Activities

Our customer is a European organisation providing weather and climate-related satellite
data, images and products for its users. You will be working onsite as part of the
comms team. Your tasks will include:

• Execute network maintenance and engineering activities on the Operational network systems. This entails assuming responsibility, at the technical and coordination level, of the specification, planning, preparation, presentation, execution and reporting on those activities
• Lead the implementation and maintenance of a campus MPLS/VRF backbone network
• Interface and liaise with third parties, e.g. service providers and suppliers
• Monitoring and supervision of the network and comms link status and performance
• Detecting and investigating network anomalies
• Implementation of corrective measures, including testing and validation
• Ensuring that in case of network equipment failures the operational configuration can be restored, including the definition, maintenance, performance of associated recovery procedures
• Tuning of operating parameters to optimize performance
• Analysing problems with satellite and WAN links and services
• Monitoring of security configuration settings
• Implementation of security measures at the network level
• Using collected statistics to support proposals for network modifications
• Analysis, specification, planning and implementation of network upgrades and evolutions
• Installation and configuration of communications equipment (routers, switches, firewalls and multiplexers)
• Specification, implementation and support of quality and performance enhancing and optimization in support of multiple data flows across LAN and WAN links
• Provision of all necessary support to ensure the seamless integration of the communications network with the ground segment hardware and application software
• Generation or update of technical documentation (e.g. design specifications as- built/asplanned, maintenance procedures, engineering change requests, anomaly reports, user guides)
• Implementation and maintenance of excel-based repositories for allocated IP addresses, and switch port allocations
• Provision of stand-by/on-call support
• Liaising with the internal and external providers of network services for anomaly
• resolution, scheduling of maintenance windows, and planning and co-ordinating changes to the service
• Provision of support, as required, to critical operations
• Provision of on-the-job training to other team members
• Generate and maintain documentation (reviews, reports, etc)

Skills

You ideally have the following qualifications and experience:

• University degree in a relevant discipline
• Several years of professional experience in administration and troubleshooting, and the evolutionary upgrade engineering of networks in distributed systems throughout their lifecycle, preferably made in an operational or production environment, characterized by custom applications in addition to standard software, running both on the client and server side, and by high availability requirements
• Cisco certification or the ability to substantiate equivalent experience recent hands-on experience with MPLS/VRF networks
• Hands-on experience in the following areas:
  • Experience of working and performing the tasks listed above in 24/7 high-availability operations environments
  • Experience of specifying, planning and preparing network engineering activities, as well as their coordination and technical guidance with other engineers within and outside the team involved in the activities, and with the customers/users and other stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated capability to prepare the documents listed in the tasks above
  • Ability to analyse complex systems and to present them in a comprehensible way, with the specific ability to understand relevant details while keeping the focus on the overall system aspects
  • Cisco network equipment and architectures, Cisco operating systems
  • Network security solutions and architectures - Cisco security equipment, ASA, FWSM, IPSEC VPN, TACACS+
  • Routing protocols: OSPF, BGP, RIP;
  • High availability network architecture and protocols e.g HSRP, VSS;
  • Campus Backbone network architectures (e.g. MPLS VPN)
  • Data center network architecture
  • Network Virtualization architectures and solutions
  • Network QOS techniques and solutions;
  • Access control and authentication solutions
  • Network management and monitoring techniques and tools: JFF, Nagios, Cisco Works, RMON, SNMP
  • IP multicast and multicast related protocols and standards (e.g. PGM);
  • Service provider WAN interfacing : using SDH, ethernet-based, E1/E3, ISDN, leased line services;
  • Satellite communications: DVB, VSAT, Point to Point links;
  • Network time systems: GPS receivers, NTP servers;
  • Protocol analysers;
  • Tools: Snort, wireshark, tcpdump, iptables, cricket, iperf.
  • Monitoring and supervision of external service provider performance, knowledge of service management and SLAs
• Fluency in English is mandatory; French would be an asset

Deadline for application: October 3rd 2011

Please note: Due to work permit restrictions for this position, please apply only if you are citizen of a
European Union state or if you already hold a work permit for Germany.

HE Space Operations is a growing international space company. For over 25 years we
have provided our customers with consultancy services in Engineering and Business
Administration.