Network Consultant

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Network Consultant

Location: London

Salary: Competitive

Contract - 3 months

Role Summary:

The post holder is part of a small team of Solutions Consultants based in US and London. This function is an integral part of the departmental process and enables it to respond to important and complex customer requests, pro-active proposition/roadmap driven capability development, and other ad hoc high value assignments. The role will be aligned with transformational work to separate the network and tools for two legal entities.

Main Responsibilities:To engage with the requestors and their architects to clarify and validate complex network and security service requirements.To engage with our Design team (and potentially Architecture) for initial review and feedback of bespoke/complex solutions in order to scope the requirementsTo work across ENT and with supporting resources to define the Requirement Specifications/Impact Assessments ensuring a collaborative approach and consensus agreement on the technical, service and commercial specification of the network and systems services to be delivered.To produce Statements of Work which clearly define the Capability Separation deliverables which captures requirements and scope.Ensuring success criteria is clearly understood by key stakeholders and documented to guarantee timely approval once scope has been delivered.To participate in discussions with internal stakeholders, to influence upstream product/application architectures and offerings, infrastructure standardization and related non-functional support capability for order fulfillment, service assurance and performance management.

Qualifications and experience:Excellent understanding of network services and technologies, design, development and launch of complex online telecoms products and services to diverse markets on a global scale to business-critical levels of serviceConcrete experience and excellent knowledge of network access gateways to production servers, encompassing remote access (VPN)Very good knowledge of network performance management tools eg Splunk, HPNA, Sev One, Cisco ISE and GigaStorVery good communications skills, both verbal and written, to capture business requirements and explain complex ideas to wide range of audienceAbility to meet tight timelinesA minimum of 5 years of relevant experience is envisaged for the role, but exceptional candidate with less experience would be consideredUndergraduate degree in network communications/computer science or related technical field and/or relevant work experience