Job Description

Job Class: Engineering

Job Location: Kenya

Contract duration: 8 Months

Job Title: System Engineer 2

Job Summary:

Our client, a leading global technology organization is seeking a System Engineer 2 with 3-5 years of experience in a network support role within a large-scale or online environment. The ideal candidate will excel in problem-solving through programmatic solutions and possess strong customer handling, presentation, and analytical skills. They should have hands-on experience with network technologies and protocols, as well as a deep understanding of hardware such as F5, Cisco, Juniper, and Infinera.

Job Responsibilities:

• Perform network monitoring and preventative maintenance measures to maintain a high availability network.
• Performs network remediation activities with an internal teams or cross functionally with internal customers, to resolve network issues.
• Interrogates network design plans, build test plans, drives test cycles from beginning to completion, identifies root cause of complex networking problems.
• Provides technical expertise in test execution and resolution of critical issues affecting test lab infrastructure.
• Participates in the creation of and adherence to test management, maintenance, deployment, and test automation procedures, as well as associated documents, and plans.
• Responsible for tracking and reporting issues via internal tool sets, and communicating resolutions and suggested solutions to software, hardware development and test leadership teams.
• Supports strategic deliverables by ensuring adequate and appropriate test analysis and monitoring of devices under test are in place, by providing interactive monitoring, data and log collection, review, statistical trending and analysis of the devices under test, through the evaluation of new and existing systems designs, and technical strategies.

Job Responsibilities

• Must have a minimum of 3 -5 years of working experience.
• Experience in network support role within an on-line or large scale environment, solving problems programmatically.
• Good customer handling, presentation, analysis and problem solving skills.
• Experience with network technologies, protocols, and testing protocol scalability in a large environment.
• Knowledge of network hardware: F5, Cisco, Juniper, Infinera etc. as well as common operating systems.
• Experience developing code for test applications and experience in the execution and documentation of test plans required (including: test case development and documentation of pass/fail criteria).
• Understanding of Lab test methodologies and test equipment

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