Principal, Network Performance - Adidas

This is an exciting new role supporting one of our key Global Clients. As an Adidas Engineer you'll be the primary contact for internal teams and the Client, responsible for lifecycle support for incident & problem management. Your primary scope will be resolving issues affecting the customer network infrastructure.
The successful Engineer's working this position should have a common understanding of traditional networking standards and should be keen to learn NEW strategic technologies such as NFV, SDN and SDWAN concepts.
This role is also suitable for internal candidates with implementation and assurance skills. (Implementation, Assurance, BVOIP teams).

Qualifications
Required Skills, etc:
• Hands on with LAN/WAN/routing protocols/QoS/troubleshooting/scripting.
• Professional level of industrial certifications from one of the vendors - Cisco, Juniper, /Riverbed/Fortigate/Palo Alto products/technologies is advantage.
• Cloud technologies and security services (Zscaler).
• Overview or experience with NEXT-gen technologies like SDWAN (Velocloud, Viptela, Riverbed, FatPipe); SDN (NFV); NEXT-Gen Firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet) is welcomed.
• User level skills on Linux, Unix & scripting (python, pearl) will be preferred.

Soft skills
• Well organized, detail oriented and flexible to help meet business requirements.
• Good communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Innovative with capability to adapt to new environments and drive changes successfully.
• Team player, analytical thinker & problem solver.

Working hours are EMEA, however expectation is for excellent flexibility out of hours, so that global support can be provided for this client as and when necessary. Emergency call out will be required as part of this role.

For Slovakia only: Salary from 3000 € brutto per month. Actual salary is likely to be higher based on skills, knowledge and experience.