[Hiring] LAN & Wi-Fi Integration Authority @Vodafone

Role Description

As a Location Independent Worker, for operational reasons you may be required to perform your duties, either temporarily or permanently, from any of Vodafone’s UK offices or customer sites within a reasonable geographic area of your home address. Our “Office in a Box” home working kit will provide you with everything you need, no matter where you are.

As a LAN & Wi-Fi Solution Design Authority you will:

• Create detailed technical designs for high profile customers, offering specialist expertise and full technical ownership.
• Act as a subject matter expert, owning the customer solution design during post sales delivery.
• Participate in and often lead detailed design and integration workshops to capture technical requirements and define the best solution for the customer.
• Plan and deliver end to end LAN, WLAN, SD WAN and NAC solutions based on customer requirements, including migration planning and testing.
• Carry out hands-on build work when needed, including staging, commissioning, and installing new network equipment.
• Attend site visits and installations where necessary.
• Ensure the customer signs off the final solution and build.
• Produce Vodafone work packages that break down detailed deliverables and the required resources within agreed SLAs.
• Provide pre and post sales consultancy to support new business opportunities and deliver 4th line support to the customer services organisation.
• Support the development and evolution of Vodafone products, continuously seeking to improve the customer experience through the product lifecycle.
• Work co-operatively with team members and colleagues, contributing positively and constructively to the achievement of team and organisational objectives.

Qualifications

• Industry recognised vendor qualification to Professional or Expert level. Cisco CCNP Enterprise minimum or related experience.
• Experience of dealing face to face with customers in a high-level technical role (i.e., Consultant, Designer, Senior Engineer), including delivering presentations.
• In-depth knowledge and practical experience of LAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, NAC.
• Experience in design & deployment of Enterprise level LAN infrastructure, including L2 & L3 technologies, as well as network access control.
• Experience of varied Wi-Fi deployments; Indoor/Outdoor Wi-Fi, Wireless Mesh Networking, Wi-Fi 1 – 6, differing antennas.
• Sound understanding of Design best practice, business processes and frameworks (ITIL and eTOM) used to deliver complex customer solutions.

Requirements

• Ability to resolve complex problems in an ingenious manner, accepting responsibility for the consequences of decisions.
• Develop decision criteria based on factors that affect Vodafone and its customers.

Benefits

• Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits.
• Up to 28 days off plus bank holidays.
• Paid time for charity work.
• Personalised benefits for you and your family, including discounts, vouchers, and a pension plan.
• Amazing learning tools and top-notch parental leave policies.

Company Description

We’re here to build a network the UK can count on – one that connects people, places and potential. We’re creating more than the UK’s best network. We’re helping close the digital divide, empower communities and drive meaningful progress.

We believe that everyone should feel they belong. We’re building a workplace where different perspectives are welcomed, voices are heard, and everyone feels safe to show up as themselves.

Join our UK Networks team, where we’re continually building and enhancing our network, connecting millions of people and businesses across the country.