TE077 Infrastructure Engineer II

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

 

Job Description:

This job is responsible for tool and service designs within a technical domain that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include creating infrastructure tools and their integration as a service, facilitating deployment of technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include looking for opportunities to improve efficiency when implementing and maintaining tools/services and embracing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

• Ideal Candidate
• A senior engineer with deep Cisco IOS-XR expertise, strong Cisco NSO automation experience, and a proven track record delivering large-scale network migrations, software upgrades, hardware refresh programmes, and automation initiatives within complex global enterprise or service provider environments.
• This role is targeted at candidates capable of delivering SIM Core and Core 2.0 transformation programmes, including Cisco 8000 deployments, IOS-XR lifecycle management, and NSO-based network automation.

Responsibilities:

• Provides subject matter expertise and consulting services on a range of technologies and assists Technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers to ensure that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
• Assists with translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
• Assists in the evaluation of reference models, blueprints and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose
• Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes
• Conducts on-site evaluations of third-party products being considered for firm adoption
• Promotes an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
• Contributes to the creation/selection of functional and non-functional product evaluation requirements within and across domains
• The engineer will act as a technical SME, leading network transformation initiatives, software upgrades, hardware refresh programmes, automation development, and operational improvements across EMEA and the global network estate.
• Key Responsibilities
• Core Network Engineering
• • Design, implement, and support large-scale WAN, MAN, and Optical Transport networks.
• • Lead migration and transformation programmes involving:
• Cisco 8000 Series Routers (8011/8212)
• Cisco ASR 9000 Series
• Cisco NCS 5500/5700 Platforms
• Cisco DWDM Platforms
• responsible for the design, implementation, automation, and lifecycle management of the firm's global Core Network infrastructure. This role requires strong expertise in Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco NSO, MPLS Segment Routing, Optical Transport technologies, and large-scale network migrations.

Required Qualifications:

• Required Skills
• Core Networking
• • 10+ years of experience within large enterprise or service provider environments.
• • Expert knowledge of:
• MPLS
• Segment Routing (SR-MPLS)
• ISIS
• BGP
• OSPF
• EVPN
• L2VPN/L3VPN
• Multicast
• QoS
• IPv4/IPv6
•  
• Cisco IOS-XR
• • Strong hands-on experience with:
• Cisco 8000 Series
• ASR 9000
• NCS 5500/5700
• • Experience performing production software upgrades, platform migrations, and troubleshooting complex network environments.
•  Cisco NSO Automation
• • Strong Cisco NSO experience.
• • Experience with:
• YANG
• Python
• NETCONF
• REST APIs
• gNMI
• Git
• • Knowledge of NSO service modelling, automation workflows, and network orchestration.
•  Optical Networking
• • Experience with:
• Cisco DWDM
• Optical Transport Networks
• Dark Fibre
• Carrier Services
• Metro Ethernet
• Long-haul Optical Infrastructure
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• Tools Technologies
• Experience with:
• Cisco NSO
• Forward Networks
• HPNA
• SevOne
• Splunk
• NetScout
• Wireshark
• NNMi
• OBM
• IBM Watson
• Jira
• Confluence

Desired Qualifications:

• • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• • Excellent verbal and written communication.
• • Strong stakeholder management and vendor engagement experience.
• • Ability to work independently and lead technical initiatives.

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Automation
• Production Support
• Risk Management
• Adaptability
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager