Network Engineer (IOS-XR & NSO)

Core Network Engineer (IOS-XR & NSO) | £465p/day (Inside IR35) | 2 days on site (London) | 6 months initially Our client is looking for a Core Network Engineer to join their EMEA network engineering team. You'll be a go to technical expert on a large, live core network, helping drive upgrades, migrations and automation across the estate. What you'll be doing Designing, building and supporting large-scale WAN, MAN and optical networks, and leading migrations and hardware refreshes on Cisco 8000, ASR 9000 and NCS 5500/5700 platforms Hands-on engineering and troubleshooting on Cisco IOS-XR in a busy production environment, including upgrades, platform moves and root cause analysis Developing and maintaining automation in Cisco NSO (service models, YANG, Python, NETCONF/REST) for provisioning, compliance checks and software upgrades What you'll need Experience in large enterprise or service provider networks Strong, current, hands-on Cisco IOS-XR experience Strong Cisco NSO experience (service modelling, YANG, Python, NETCONF/REST, Git) Expert knowledge of MPLS, SR-MPLS, ISIS, BGP, OSPF, EVPN, L2VPN/L3VPN, multicast and QoS Must have experience in NSO & IOS-XR Core Network Engineer (IOS-XR & NSO) | £465p/day (Inside IR35) | 2 days on site (London) | 6 months initially Oscar Associates (UK) Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. To understand more about what we do with your data please review our privacy policy in the privacy section of the Oscar website.