Network Services & Automation Engineer
ref :577898 | 11 Mar 2024
apply before : 09 Jun 2024
Morocco Sala Al Jadida - Morocco
about the role
Orange International Networks Infrastructures & Services (OINIS) is a technical division, serving Orange group on international aspects. With around 1700 high skilled employees around the world, OINIS is a major player in the world of networks, infrastructure, and security.
OINIS’s mission is to design, deploy and run international and long-distance networks, as well as IT infrastructures of the Orange group.
Joining OINIS means evolving in an international, multicultural, and technological environment. This rich environment will give you opportunities to grow, you will learn from our teams’ experiences and us from yours.
OINIS aims to become a key player in the evolution of the network and services and to offer our customers a unique experience:
· The Business market (via Orange Business: OB): with the design, deployment and supervision of international terrestrial, submarine, and satellite networks
· The international voice and data wholesale market
· Orange subsidiaries with their interconnection needs.
Within the NEST (Network Engineering, Strategy and Transformation) department, INSIDE (Infrastructures, Networks, ServIces Development & Engineering) aims to sustain Enterprise and International Wholesale Business growth in developing and supporting customer end-to-end infrastructure and services. It is composed of 5 teams, each with specific line of business, but common way of working.
Within INSIDE department, the SDN infra team is mainly in charge of studying and delivering virtualized services for French and International customers. In this context, you will assist a team of SDN/NFV experts. You will take part in the implementation of a secure infrastructure as a service offer based on OpenStack and/or Kubernetes with a part of physical router orchestration.
In this context, the team need to model several services (L3VPN, L2VPN, switch aggregation…) & develop modules to be able to automate service production and configuration (creation, deletion & modification of such service). Team is based in France.
Within the INSIDE Department,
A transverse team, responsible for service modeling, has been created with engineers from all the 5 INSIDE teams.
to
modelize specific L3 & L2 Orange Business Services to
develop modules needed for specific projects linked to the automation of VPN network services or functions (e.g., using Cisco NSO network controller). to develop & maintain required
automation framework in lab (e.g. tests to integrate in dedicated Web Portal & Scheduler and/or in a CI/CD chain upon needs using Ansible, GITLAB CI, Robot Framework…) to
validate network functions or services in a lab: you need to understand them as pre-requisite to their proper automation and modeling.
to
automate network tests (in Python) which are executed in a lab representative of our International MPLS VPN networks. to
transfer knowledge to the operational engineers who will use the tests automated or the service modules developed.
Technical skills Coding / programming skills: Python language is our prime reference, past experience with developing in that language (even during university) is required. Experience in other language (e.g., Shell) is also appreciated. Automation framework knowledge (tools, languages) including CI/CD automation chain & GIT at least. Also potentially Ansible, Jenkins, GITLAB CI or Robot Framework are tools used in our environment. Some practical experience on some would be a real +. Software development applied to the network: YANG, Netconf are standards used. System: Linux (advanced enough to administrate Linux systems) Cloud IT culture e.g., virtualization, containers Knowledge of Docker is real + A first practical experience in Agile mode project would be a real + Strong technical interest for IP networking subjects (understand the service or function is mandatory to automate or model it the right way!) Network protocols basic knowledge: TCP/IP, addressing, routing (ISIS, MP-BGP…), MPLS VPN concept. CISCO/Juniper CLI knowledge is a + (e.g., CISCO CCNA level, Juniper JNCIA level) Interest for new protocols and emerging technologies is required, in a technical environment evolving very fast.
Personal skills Ability to work in team and cross-functional projects, in a complex organization with different activities and multi-cultural environment (Europe, North America, Egypt, India…). Team spirit (you will work with other engineers based in France, Slovakia and Morocco and will share lab resources) Technical driven: ability to acquire quickly technical information. Must be curious, 'investigation' minded. Autonomy & Flexibility as evolving in a changing environment. Good synthesis skills (Both written and oral) Result driven, customer-centric approach.
about you
EXPERIENCE Education and training Master’s degree or higher in Computer science, Engineering or Telecommunication Telecommunications education in a technical field (data processing, computers, telecom, networks)
Experience wishes : 0 to 5 years in telecommunications market (can be + of course). First practical experience in programming or even test automation is expected.
Previous experience in international environment is a +
Education and training Master’s degree or higher in Computer science, Engineering or Telecommunication Telecommunications education in a technical field (data processing, computers, telecom, networks
Experience wishes : 0 to 5 years in telecommunications market (can be + of course). First practical experience in programming or even test automation is expected. Previous experience in international environment is a +
French knowledge is a + Only your skills matter
Regardless of your age, gender, origin, religion, sexual orientation, neuroatypia, disability or appearance, we encourage diversity within our teams because it is a strength for the collective and a vector of innovation. Orange Group is a disabled-friendly company: don't hesitate to tell us about your specific needs.
4,21/5 is the candidate experience in France, in the category of companies with over 1,000 employees
