Backbone Network Engineer at Apple Inc. (Cork, Ireland)

This position will be responsible for daily engineering and deployment within Core Network Services in Europe, supporting Apples MPLS backbone as well as its extensive edge connectivity. The successful candidate will demonstrate leadership and collaboration skills in working both with other IS&T organisations and their peers to build and maintain the networking infrastructure. They will need to develop and maintain clear documentation and procedures associated with designing and implementing new deployments, provisioning new circuits, and sustaining operations. This position provides the opportunity to build and manage a world-wide, multivendor ISP-class network that includes metro and long haul optical interconnectivity.

Key Qualifications:
Good experience in IP, BGP, MPLS, MP-BGP, IS-IS, RSVP and LDP.
Solid understanding of wide area networking in a content or service provider, or very large-scale enterprise, environments.
Experience supporting a large peering/transit network, with a sound knowledge of the traffic engineering and routing policy development this needs.
Hands-on experience with carrier-grade routers and operating systems required.
Strong analytical and organisational skills, including the proven ability to adapt to a dynamic project environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
In addition, experience in troubleshooting DWDM optical equipment, with Craft/WebGUI, CLI, TL1 and NMS solutions, useful.

Description:
This position will support and implement Apples backbone network to address a wide variety of business challenges.

The candidate will need to excel in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with the ability to multi-task and provide not only operational support but work closely with members of the Core Services team to provide solutions to grow our network infrastructure.

This position requires a collaborative team player who will work in cross-functional groups and have the ability and willingness to work with others.

The responsibilities also include updating and maintaining existing networks to current standards, sustaining operations, and contributing to technical documentation.

The engineer will need to obsess over the customer experience and to drive operational excellence in every aspect of their work.

In addition to the technical networking skills, this position also requires strong people skills and an individual who enjoys the dynamic nature of Apples environment.

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