Senior Network Consultant

The team, position & mission:

The Network team in Orange Business is a cross-country team consisting of 20 members in Norway, Sweden, Germany, and The Netherlands. We are responsible for maintenance and development of our network infrastructure to ensure reliability to our customers and relevance in the market. We strive to work closely together within the team, but also with the other infrastructure departments as well as Service Delivery to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.

As a part of our team, you will be working with our data center network infrastructure along with our customer premises network solutions. To provide such an extensive product portfolio, we use a wide range of vendors and technologies including Juniper EX/QFX/MX, Cisco ASA, F5 BIG-IP, Juniper Mist Wi-Fi, VMware NSX.

We always aim to become more efficient in everything we do by scripting and automating repetitive tasks using Ansible, Python, Perl amongst others.

In this role, being self-driven, pragmatic and service minded are considered highly important personality traits and skills.

Your key areas of responsibility as a Senior Network Consultant:

• Incident Management: Prioritize, diagnose, and resolve incidents following established procedures.
• Problem Management: Take ownership of problem resolution, recommend solutions, and implement changes as needed.
• Change Management: Review and implement customer change requests following our best practices.
• Maintenance: Plan, assess, and execute maintenance tasks on our production platform.
• Projects: Independently or as part of a small team, carry out small projects across all phases.
• Architecture: Assist in system designs, specifications, and overall network architecture.

As an ideal candidate you have:

• 5 years or more experience from working in a data-center network environment.
• Experience of working with Linux operating systems.
• Have worked in a company using the ITIL framework.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Willingness and possibility to get security clearance (if not already) as per the Norwegian Security Act (sikkerhetsloven).

It is not a requirement, but other preferred qualifications would be experience with the following:

• Network automation using Ansible
• F5 BIG-IP load balancing services
• Cisco ASA firewall systems
• Juniper switches and routers
• Software Defined Networking, VMware NSX
• Good verbal and written communication skills in Norwegian

What we offer you:

• Hybrid ways of working with access to our modern & collaborative offices in Oslo
• We may work with tomorrow’s technology, but at our core we are a people-oriented organization and we are proud to have our Great Place to Work certification
• An open and inclusive culture, that enables us to reach our full potential
• A community of experts - as Digital Natives, we put innovation at the heart of our expertise
• Read more about the benefits we offer here.

About Orange Business:

Orange Business is a leading network and digital integrator company with offices in 65 countries worldwide, and part of the Orange Group.

Digital Services, a business line of Orange Business is a newly created division within Orange Business. In Europe the business line consists of approximately 1500 people distributed across 9 countries. We are digital natives, with innovation at the core of our business, which makes us a reliable partner close to our customers. Our joint mission is to help innovate, drive and lead them in their digital transformation challenges and business strategies in key digital domains, including Cloud, Customer Experience, Digital Workspace and Data & AI. As an agile and fast-moving digital business partner, the business line offers trusted end-to-end solutions and products that help businesses in a wide range of industries in the private and public sector transform their operations, enhance customer experience, and drive growth.

With our digital expertise, we are a strategic partner of Orange Business objectives to be a leading network and digital integrator with our team as a key growth engine.

The process:
We screen applications on an ongoing basis, with the aim of conducting conversations and interviews as we receive them.

Interested but feel that you don´t match the criteria 100%? We encourage you to apply anyway! We believe in the potential of diverse skill sets, perspectives and individuality. We want to encourage everyone to be their authentic selves and your unique capabilities may align perfectly with our team's needs! Your perfect match might be the next job we are announcing, so why not have a head start and apply now!

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