Hackajob is collaborating with BBC to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.
This role will lead the development and delivery of a BBC Future Network that will converge enterprise, office, media and control networks onto a multi‑tenanted Arista fabric in the BBC’s new home in Birmingham, The Tea Factory. Working closely with the project team, Architects, Solution and Product Managers you will document, design, configure, test and handover the network into support. Initially a role for 18 months the right candidate may have the role extended to work on other flagship BBC projects.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
The Programmes & Project Delivery department is leading the design and delivery of a flagship BBC project that will deliver state of the art media and broadcast technology into the BBC’s new home in Birmingham, The Tea Factory. The team offers a flexible approach to working, focusing on outcomes and results, engaging with thought leaders across the industry on a daily basis.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
The key responsibility of the role is to design, deliver, configure, test and handover a BBC large site multi‑tenanted network into the BBC’s new home in Birmingham, The Tea Factory. The impact will be a large site template for the BBC to deploy at BBC sites in the UK and across the world.
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
* Experience of translating network requirements from a variety of network owners into documentation and design collateral.
* Experience in the design, delivery, and support of fabric networks using open standards including EVPN and VXLAN.
* Knowledge of design and engineering techniques around integration of firewalls into fabric networks.
* Knowledge of current systems engineering best practices around the monitoring, performance testing, and security considerations of complex multi‑tenanted networks.
* Proven experience of using open automation toolsets (Ansible, NetBox, and vendor frameworks) to deploy network infrastructure at scale.
* Experience working with Git and DevOps practices.
Desired But Not Required
* Knowledge of handling PTP and IP multicast on a medium sized network.
* Current knowledge of Arista’s AVD framework and experience with Arista CloudVision.
* Experience with the creation of automated network test code using Python or Arista’s ANTA framework.
* Exposure to Fortinet firewall platforms and their use for securing inter‑tenant traffic on a multi‑tenanted network.
* Awareness of Wi‑Fi design best practices.
* Exposure to broadcast / media application layer protocols including AES67, RTP, SRT, and ST2202-7.
* Knowledge or experience of working with media/technology tools (hardware and software).
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