Network Administrator.Infrastructure & Operations

Job Purpose

Administration, managing and development of Etisalat IT Data and Voice Network to achieve the highest level of availability and performance to all the corporate services provided to internal Etisalat staff as well as the services offered to Etisalat Subscribers.

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• Maintain and support the following components:

1. IT data center network devices

2. Routers

2. Switches

3. Wireless network

4. Cisco Call Manager.

5. Cisco UCCX.

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  installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the Internal LAN of the company, solving end user network related problems.
• Administer all network equipment, hardware (routers, switches, wireless access points, voice servers, gateways and IP phones) and software upgrades.
• Perform network design and capacity planning.
• Interact and negotiate with different vendors during implementations of new projects and support for the existing and finished projects.
• Develop, implement and maintain network and IP Telephony policies and procedures.
• Practice network asset management, including maintenance of network component inventory and related documentation and technical specifications information.
• Establish operational level agreements with end users.
• Administer and maintain end user accounts, permissions, and access rights.
• Perform system backups and recovery.
• Check daily Syslog Report to monitor logs generated by all network devices using SolarWinds.
• Handle Trouble Tickets generated by IT Service Desk team and assigned to Network team.
• Monitor network Devices and connectivity links using applications like SolarWinds.
• Send weekly graphs report which gives statistics for the traffic utilization on Etisalat links using SolarWinds.
• Draw Visio Diagram for all Etisalat infrastructure network.
• Collect Serial numbers, Location and Part number for each network device (Hardware Inventory).
• Manage of WAN optimization.

• Handle authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) using Cisco ACS. • Handle the acceptance of new Point of Sales (PoS) Projects. • Manage WAN optimization. • Provide 24/7 on call support for Etisalat employees

.• Download and test new network software.

• Do planned network outages at night.
• Test new network products and solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS_ESSENTIAL

QUALIFICATIONS_DESIRABLE

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EXPERIENCE_DESIRABLE

At least 2-4 years experience working in IP networks in large corporate environment with at least 1 year hands on experience with Cisco Routers and Backbone and Edge Switches.

Good knowledge of switching and IP routing protocols.

familiar with the operations of IP networks in Telecom environment.

Minimum 2 to 4 years experience.

Area of experience: Network and/ or Voice

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