VXLAN Project Engineer

OpticoreIT Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 89,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Opticore IT is seeking a VXLAN Project Engineer at CCIE level to join our team on a six-month contract (IR35) with on-site work in Central London three days per week. You will design and deploy VXLAN/EVPN fabrics for a quantitative research fund, focusing on spine-leaf architectures and underlay/overlay integration.

You will build with Arista EOS and our orchestration platform, lead technical delivery, coordinate with stakeholders, and produce as-built documentation and handover to operations.

Qualifications

• CCIE level or equivalent experience required.
• VXLAN/EVPN design and deployment expertise required.
• Data centre spine-leaf architectures experience essential.
• On-site in Central London: 3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Produce low-level designs for VXLAN/EVPN spine-leaf fabrics, including underlay routing, overlay segmentation, multi-tenancy and border/service leaf placement.
• Build and configure fabrics using Arista EOS platforms and client’s orchestration and management platforms.
• Configure underlay (OSPF/IS-IS/eBGP) and overlay (MP-BGP EVPN) as well as anycast gateways.
• Act as technical lead on assigned projects, reporting progress, risks and issues to the project manager.
• Engage with client stakeholders, vendors and third-party suppliers; present designs at design authority or CAB.
• Produce as-built documentation and handover to operations/support teams.

Skills

VXLAN/EVPN design

Data centre spine and leaf design

Data centre spine and leaf deployment

Client and stakeholder engagement

CCIE-level (or CCNP)

Education

CCIE or CCNP certification

Tools

Arista EOS

Job description

Opticore IT is a specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within fast-paced,challenging environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more.

Opticore IT are currently searching for a VXLAN Project Engineerwho is operating at a CCIE level to come and join the team on an initial 6 month basis (inside IR 35) with scope to extend. This requires 3 days per week on site in Central London.

This opportunity will have you working for a quantitative research fund in their high performing data centres to build and increase capacity for increased workloads. You'll support this growth with strong VXLAN/EVPN design and deployment skills and experience.

What you'll be doing:

Design

• Following the existing engineering standards, produce low-level designs for VXLAN/ EVPN spine-leaf fabrics, including underlay routing, overlay segmentation, multi-tenancy and border/service leaf placement

Build and implementation

• Build and configure fabrics using Arista EOS platforms and client’s proprietary orchestration and management platforms
• Configure underlay (OSPF/IS-IS/eBGP), overlay (MP-BGP EVPN), anycast gateways etc.
• Note, hardware rack, stack and cabling will be implemented by other teams

Project delivery and stakeholders

• Act as technical lead on assigned projects, reporting progress, risks and issues to the project manager.
• Engage with client stakeholders, vendors and third-party suppliers; present designs at design authority or CAB.
• Produce as-built documentation and run knowledge transfer and handover to operations/support teams.

What you'llbring:

• VXLAN / EVPN (Arista preferred, but any vendor)
• Data centre spine & leaf design
• Data centre spine & leaf deployment
• Client and stakeholder engagement
• CCIE or very strong CCNP-level (or equivalent experience)

Diversity:

At Opticore IT we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We actively recruit for an inclusive and diverse workforce and as such, want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made with your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.