Senior Telco Network Engineer

About the role

NCS, an AI tech services company and subsidiary of the Singtel Group, is hiring a Senior Network Engineer in Singapore. As a consultant, you will deliver network project implementation, post-sales consultancy and network maintenance support, especially for LAN, data centre and WAN architectures, and will gradually own the technical design of solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and implement telecom network (LAN and WAN) and security infrastructure projects, working with the project team until commissioning
• Assist the Project Manager with network design, site preparation and risk identification and mitigation
• Configure networks and systems, troubleshoot faults, monitor and test performance, and design technical solutions within scope
• Gather business and application requirements to plan, design, install, test and implement systems to specification and SLA
• Apply ITSM/ITIL practices (change, incident, problem, release management, CMDB) and respond to incidents with root cause analysis
• Implement backup/restore and disaster recovery procedures, and maintain network documentation
• Help prepare proposals and solution presentations
• Drive adoption of model-driven telemetry, SDN controllers and intent-based networking, and contribute to AI-assisted use cases such as predictive capacity management and automated remediation

Required profile

• Diploma or degree in an IT-related discipline
• 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills, and strong teamwork and organisational skills
• Preferred: exposure to carrier-grade equipment (Cisco ASR9K, NCS5500, N9K, Huawei NE5000E, NE40E, Juniper MX series) and certifications such as CCIE, HCIE or CCNP

Required skills

• Switches, routers, firewalls and routing protocols (BGP, MP-BGP, EIGRP, OSPF)
• MPLS L3VPN, L2VPN, EVPN, segment routing
• Advanced switching (DC Fabric, Fabric Path, MC-Lag, VPC, VXLAN)
• Vendor equipment: Cisco, Juniper, Huawei
• Network automation and scripting (Python preferred); Ansible, Terraform or similar
• SDN controllers, telemetry and streaming data; AI/ML concepts applied to networking are highly desirable