Senior Network Engineer (Telecom Networks)

NCS Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NCS Pte Ltd is a leading AI Tech Services company with a 15,000-strong team across the Asia Pacific, delivering network projects in LAN, WAN, and data center environments. You will be responsible for design, implementation, and post-sales support, driving high customer satisfaction and professional standards.

You will own technical designs, perform configurations, and contribute to innovative networking solutions including telemetry, automation, and AI-assisted use cases.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years hands-on network engineering experience.
• Experience with switches, routers, firewalls.
• Strong routing protocols: BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, MP-BGP.
• Experience with MPLS L3VPN/L2VPN and EVPN.
• Experience with DC Fabric, VXLAN, MC-Lag, VPC.
• Familiarity with SDN, telemetry, and automation.
• Certifications CCIE/HCIE/CCNP preferred.
• Proactive fault isolation and resolution.
• Documenting networks and proposing solutions.
• Exposure to Cisco, Juniper, Huawei equipment.

Responsibilities

• Lead network project implementation from design to commissioning.
• Perform configurations, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring.
• Design solutions for LAN/WAN, DC and security.
• Adopt ITIL practices in changes, incidents and releases.
• Prepare proposals and solution presentations.
• Drive model-driven telemetry and SDN controller adoption.
• Contribute to AI-assisted networking use cases.

Skills

Network engineering

LAN/WAN

DC/Data Centre

BGP/OSPF

MPLS L3VPN/L2VPN

SDN/Telemetry

Automation (Python)

Ansible/Terraform

AI for networking

Troubleshooting

Vendor equipment knowledge

Education

CCIE/HCIE/CCNP certifications

Tools

Cisco ASR9K

NCS5500

Juniper MX2000

Huawei NE5000E

NE40E

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Company Description

NCS is a leading AI Tech Services company. With a 15,000-strong team across the Asia Pacific, NCS scales its platforms and capabilities to provide clients with greater agility and AI expertise across a range of Industries. Embracing a strong ecosystem of global partners, NCS transforms technology services delivery combining AI with digital resilience to drive real business impact. NCS is a subsidiary of the Singtel Group

Job Description

As a Senior Network Engineer, you will be working as a consultant responsible in providing network project implementation, post-sales consultancy and network maintenance support, particularly in the area of network architectures (LAN, Data Centre and WAN). You will also be involved in hands-on operations in network maintenance.

Progressively, you will own technical design in implementation of technical solutions. Ensuring quality technical solutions and drive towards the highest levels of customer satisfaction and improvement in professional standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage/implement network infrastructure projects covering in area of Telecom Networks (LAN & WAN) and security system.
• Manage/implement, by project basis, working with project team members in implementing and delivering projects till commissioning.
• Assist Project Manager in various aspects of project implementation, including network design, site preparation, risks identification and mitigation
• Tasks include performing network/systems configurations, troubleshooting errors/problems, monitoring and/or testing systems performance, and contribute to the design of technical solutions for customer environments adherence to scope of work.
• Proactively provides solutions to prevent problems from occurring and/or to provide resolution for technical issues.
• Gather business and/or application requirements on the infrastructure to plan, design, install, test & implement systems in accordance with the specifications & service level.
• Aligned or enhanced ITSM/ITIL methodologies in daily operations e.g. Change, Incident, problem, release management & CMDB.
• Respond promptly to incident, root cause analysis & provide temporary and/or permanent resolution of incidents escalated. Provide timely status updates to relevant parties.
• Implement service continuity measures, i.e., backup/restore procedures & disaster recovery plan, to ensure continuous operation of the business.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all implemented networks.
• Assist in preparation of proposals and solution presentations.
• Drive adoption of model-driven telemetry, SDN controllers, and intent-based networking.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of AI-assisted or autonomous network use cases, such as:
  • Proactive fault detection and root-cause analysis
  • Predictive capacity management
  • Automated remediation and closed-loop operations

Qualifications

• 3 – 5 years of hands-on experience
• Experienced in implementing and administrating network devices such as Switches, Routers, Firewalls.
• Experienced in implementing and administrating advanced network routing protocols such as BGP, MP-BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, network Security.
• Experienced and knowledgeable in implementing MPLS L3VPN, L2VPN, EVPN, Segment routing etc.
• Experience implementing advanced switching technology including DC Fabric, Fabric path, MC-Lag, VPC, VXLAN etc.
• Experienced in Administration and troubleshooting in network environment.
• Exposure with carrier-grade network equipment (Cisco ASR9K, NCS5500, N9K, Huawei NE5000E, NE40E, Juniper MX2000, MX960 etc) will be added advantage.
• Certifications such as CCIE/HCIE/CCNP and other relevant IT industry certificates will be preferred.
• Possess good analytical and trouble-shooting skills in the area of technical fault isolation and rectification
• Possess good working knowledge in multiple vendor equipment like Cisco, Juniper, Huawei router.
• Practical experience with network automation and scripting (Python preferred).
• Familiarity with automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent.
• Experience working with SDN controllers, telemetry, and streaming data is an advantage.
• Knowledge of AI/ML concepts applied to networking or autonomous networking frameworks is highly desirable.

Additional Information

We are driven by our AEIOU beliefs—Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership, and Unity—and we seek individuals who embody these values in both their professional and personal lives. We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients, Growing our people, and Creating our future.

Together, we make the extraordinary happen.

Learn more about us at ncs.co and visit our LinkedIn career site.