Team leadership and responsible for the design and implementation of corporate security network capabilities that support reliable and secure hosted and collaborative services across the whole Vodafone Network in Europe.
Responsible for the engineering of the High and Low Level Design, network implementation, testing and quality assurance activities in the Local Markets corporate network. Responsible for developing and expanding the team’s technical skills and experience. Responsible to guarantee consistency and harmonisation across the region and being accountable for the effective design and evolution of security network nodes in Europe, promoting and delivering all possible best practise processes & cost savings initiatives.
o Responsible to deliver High / Low Level Design engineering and network design optimization of corporate networks in Europe.
o Drive increased quality of our network end to end
o Provide HLDs, LLDs, define templates, modularize and industrialize configuration items and their implementation.
o Deploy the network fit for purpose including understanding of how our services/applications layer will run across the network (capacity, capability, utilisation)
o Responsible to deliver optimal implementation process that ensures quality.
o Decrease the design and implementation costs and to achieve a harmonized & simplified network infrastructure
o Take control over CAPEX budget; forecast, planning, allocation, approval process, administration
o Deployment of the validated solution to its operational environment and deliver training
o Planning of Changes and support of Change Management Process
o Supervision of external supporters and 3rd parties
o Quality assurance in the design and implementation process
o Support, Test & Accept / Audit the deployed solution
o Hand over the accepted solution to Operations and Maintenance
o Document test & QA activities
o Drive knowledge transfer and technical skill development within Network Implementation team
o Responsible to ensure NW harmonisation and standardization across Europe:
o Harmonize security network environments and services
o Harmonize solutions, enable seamless access over a converged wired/wireless network to global IT systems and provide guest services for external partner services as well as Third party connectivity.
o Drive network standards across Local markets
o Drive + Support Network innovations
o Strategic insight into corporate network challenges, requirements and development issues and their impact on customer experience.
o Strong people management and motivation skills.
o Ability to help define and target a vision for Vodafone security evolution.
o In-depth knowledge in the following areas:
o Networks (TCP/IP, Protocols, Structures, Hardware, Security)
o Knowledge in the area of the installation and configuration of network components (Routers, Switches, VPN Gateways, Firewalls, Proxies and others)
o Knowledge in routing protocols, VOIP technology, WLAN technology, DHCP, DNS, Active Directory
o Knowledge in network management and network analysis
o Knowledge in security (policies, encryption, Authentication, Authorization, Accounting, 802.1x, PKI, certificates)
• University degree: telecommunication degree with more than 5 years of experience.
• Solid knowledge of NW design / architecture and network security experience
• Planning & budget management experience
• Operational experience
• Good stakeholders management
• Ability to work across multi-functional and cultural boundaries to deliver results/change
• Good Team Leadership and management to build high performing teams
• Experiences in project management
• Innovative & results oriented.
• Experiences in project management
• Innovative & Results oriented.