IP PreSales Consultant

Job Description

The pandemic has highlighted how important telecoms networks are to society. Nokia s Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to bring more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise.What you will learn and contribute to Are you passionate about solving problems As part of our team, you will:
• Acts as IP technology and solution advocate to customers and CX teams to promote ION routing solutions
• Engages with account teams and end customers to assess customer requirements, defines network architectures and solutions, contributes directly to tenders /customer proposals.
• Takes ownership of the technical and commercial offer building
• Contributes to account strategies and directions closely cooperating with CO teams
• Analyses customer and market requirements, and ensures the ION product group gets systematically updated on market demands to allow product evolution in-line the local customers/ market demands
• Markets: Broadband aggregation, Carrier Ethernet, L2/L3 VPN services, IP Core routing, Security, Cloud and Datacenters, Mobile backhaul, 2G/3G/ 4G and 5G Packet Core, Software Defined Networks.
Your skills and experience Minimum 12+ years of experience as a customer engineer (or Solution expert, technical pre-sales, etc.) in an IP focused (IP routing & Ethernet switching) role or demonstrated equivalence.Candidate must have the deep understanding, hands-on, testing and deployment of the following technologies:
• IP Headers and per-hop standard forwarding behaviors
• Advanced routing protocols configuration, design and implementation
• OSPFv2, OSPFv3
• IS-IS
• MPLS (LDP and RSVP) and MPLS VPN technologies and standards
• Segment Routing (MPLS and IPv6 data plane encapsulation)
• BGP, including multicast, unicast and VPN families
• Carrier design philosophies and conventions for routing architecture
• Familiarity with applicable IETF RFCs and other standards
• Ethernet switching and L2 technologies:
• Standard loop avoidance mechanisms
• EVPN, VXLAN, and their various implementation
• Deep understanding of Telemetry, NETCONF, and Yang models (proprietary and standards)
• Deep understanding of security technologies, including but not limited to IPsec, MACsec, SSL, TLS, and others
• Product development interfacing:
  • The candidate must be able to write a Feature Request Documents describing in detail all the software and hardware requirements
  • Deep knowledge to challenge the Product Line Managers and Engineering Department (R&D) on how all the features will be impacting the HW and SW needed.
  • Deep Hardware understanding, from physical ports to how each chipset behaves
• Detailed hands-on to demonstrate all the features needed for specific applications
• Drive all the interoperability testing across multiple vendors where Nokia is the challenger and needs to integrate with actual vendors
It would be nice if you also had:
• Hands-on experience with major router vendor operating systems (SROS, IOS, JUNOS, EOS, or others), and modern router and switch hardware and OS architectures
• Familiarity with merchant silicon offerings, architectures, and their uses (Broadcom, Marvell, Cavium, and others)
• Understanding of Optical networking technologies is desired (SONET, OTN, and related technologies)
• Must be able to quickly and easily master new technologies and evolving standards in various customer business disciplines (Residential IP, Wireless Carrier IP, Business Services IP, etc.). Must have experience working with product development requirements and IP product lifecycle issues.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills for internal communication. Must have excellent customer communication etiquette and presentation skills. Must be comfortable being an IP products expert within Nokia and driving other departments and sales teams toward most effectively realizing IP products revenue.
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Keyskills :
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