Senior Network Specialist - IP

We are currently looking for a skilled Senior Network Specialist - IP to join any European or North American hub office.

The Senior Network Specialist - IP will be the supporting IP specialists between our operations team and Network Engineers with a focus on solving problem cases either raised by operations or by the Senior Network Specialist - IP. It’s expected to use a structural approach to handle problem cases and secure internally knowledge database are updated. Additional tasks are training different IP related teams in various operational tasks. The Senior Network Specialist - IP will be reporting directly into the Head of Engineering Data.

Key Responsibilities

- Support with specialist knowledge the operational IP teams in daily incidents
- Handle problem cases, chase solutions, work arounds and secure documentation in knowledge DB
- Take part of educating various internal teams.
- Support advanced maintenance works, migrations & implementations

Who are you

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written, facilitation and presentation techniques
- Strong leadership/team skills and a positive track record in executing innovative ideas and coordinating among internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to show initiative, take ownership, challenge the status quo, drive simplification and a new focus within the wider business
- Excellent people skills, teamwork, willingness to learn, ability to prioritize and coordinate tasks and assignments.
- Friendly, confident and able to meet deadlines
- Organized and committed to accurate data management
- Helping to ensure satisfied and delighted customers
- Comfortable working across different cultures and geographies
- Ability to work in cross-functional development organization with financial analysts, architects, engineers, project managers and product managers

Your Experience

- 10+ years’ experience of working with network engineering or operations and ideally working closely with the main IP equipment platforms on the market today
- Detailed understanding of all aspects of IP and Ethernet networks such as, but not limited to MPLS applications, SR, QoS, EVPN, BGP, IS-IS, NETCONF/YANG, Telemetry and Netflow
- Experience in analyzing and optimizing needs for various support tools for better or quicker operational handling
- Proven ability to accurately document and maintain learned knowledge
- Proven experience at interfacing with vendors in influencing their product improvements for both hardware and software
- Understanding of optical networks and how IP are reliant on optical technology for long haul links
- Capable skills in data wrangling through Python or R, as well as SQL


From humble beginnings in the early 1990s, we have become connectivity partner of choice to the world’s largest content providers, operators and enterprises. In the past, our network laid the very foundations of the Internet revolution and today it’s enabling digitalization throughout business and society.

Arelion, formerly Telia Carrier, is owned by Polhem Infra, a Swedish investment company backed by some of the largest Swedish public pension funds. We started building our network in 1993, when our Autonomous System, AS1299, was allocated, and we’ve grown organically ever since. Our network now stretches 70,000 kms across Europe, North America and Asia and lets you connect directly to more than 2,300 wholesale customers in more than 125 countries. With more than 450 local access partners around the world, we are the backbone of your business, wherever you are.