Job Description
Primary Purpose of the Role:
Inmarsat owns and operates an extensive global IP network to support its fleet of satellites and to carry traffic from a diverse set of customers. The use of deep packet inspection tools for both bandwidth management and network intelligence has become increasingly important and Inmarsat has invested significantly in this area. The core network team have a vacancy for a specialist to help manage the deployment, configuration and maintenance of the DPI infrastructure.
The current DPI infrastructure consists mainly of Sandvine policy traffic switch (PTS) which will be superseded by Sandvine Active Logic over the next 2 years. The DPI Engineer will support the transition to Active Network Intelligence (ANI) and the in-life operation of the system which will be deployed in a private cloud environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the management of Inmarsat's DPI infrastructure at multiple sites
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert for Inmarsat's Sandvine Infrastructure
- Support Product team, CTO and Service Assurance teams to turn requirements into appropriate policies and or bespoke scripts
- Lead or support testing activities required to ensure that new policies can be deployed to the production network without unexpected effects
- Diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues related to the DPI infrastructure
- Track issues through to resolution within agreed time limits
- Liaise with the manufacturer where appropriate to resolve problems
- Support the work of the core network team as directed by the team manage
Qualifications
Key Knowledge and Skills
- Experience in a technical role involving IP networks and DPI solutions
- Ideal candidate will have served as a developer in prior roles and have a deep understanding of modern, highly scalable architectures leveraging the latest technologies including NET/C#, Restful APIs, micro-services, cloud computing etc
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, IT or Software Engineering, Microsoft, Cisco, Linux or similar certification or a diploma from a technical institute
- Knowledge of Load Balancing, Firewalls and Virtualization
- Linux or Unix OS experience
- Good Understanding of IP networks (CCNP level knowledge)
- Hands-on experience with the installation, configuration, and/or operation of networking equipment such as Cisco, Juniper or other network hardware manufacturers would be an advantage
- Ability to investigate and resolve problems in a logical manner
- Ability to prioritise multiple tasks effectively
Desirable Knowledge and Skills
- Programming and/or scripting in any language or knowledge of SQL databases
- Experience of virtualized routing technologies such as Juniper vMX or Cisco 5921
- Previous experience of Sandvine technologies and Sandscript would be an asset
- Knowledge of Multicast, PIM, IGMPv2/v3, SNMP
Additional Information
You must be eligible to work in this location advertised.
Inmarsat Values:
Our values define Inmarsat's culture and represent what we believe in. Inmarsat employees aspire to certain behaviours which support our corporate values, they create a stronger working environment and lie at the heart of our continued success as an organisation.
- Customer - Providing a unique value to our customers
- Accountability - taking ownership, getting results and keeping our promises
- Respect - collaborating, embracing diversity and valuing differences
- Excellence - creating bold solutions for our customers and putting quality at the heart of everything we do