Principal Consulting Engineer
Qualifications:
Required:
Four-year Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science (or related technical degree and/or equivalent experience)
Desired:
Graduate level degree is business is a plus
Skills and Experience:
Required:
Minimum 6+ years of experience as a customer facing systems engineer (or consulting systems engineer, technical marketing engineer, 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 behaviours
- Advanced routing protocols configuration, design and implementation:
o OSPFv2, OSPFv3
o IS-IS, IS-ISv6
o MPLS (LDP and RSVP)
o Segment Routing (MPLS and IPv6 data plane encapsulation)
o BGP, including multicast, unicast and VPN families
- Ethernet switching and L2 technologies:
o Standard loop avoidance mechanism
o EVPN and it variants implementation
- Deep understanding on Telemetry, Yang models (proprietary and standards)
- Product development
o The candidate must be able to write a “Feature Request Documents” describing in detail all the software and hardware needs
o 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.
o Deep Hardware understanding, from physical ports to how each chipset behaves
o Must be on top of standardization entities like IETF, where she/he will contribute to draft and RFC in the industry
- 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
- Juniper and Cisco detailed, and hands-on knowledge is mandatory
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.