Specialist, Packet Network Engineering
Colt Data Centre Services · Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 69d ago
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About this role
Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.
Job ID:36795
Job Level:S2 Core
Job Location: Gurugram / Bangalore
Function: Chief Operations Office (COO)
Employment Type: Full time
Working pattern: Hybrid
The primary purpose of this role is to provide technical leadership for the engineering, evolution and operational excellence of Colts global Internet backbone. The role is responsible for designing, integrating and optimising carrier-grade Internet and IP/MPLS infrastructure, supporting large-scale network transformation, backbone modernisation and service integration initiatives across a multi-vendor environment.
Working closely with Architecture, Operations, Automation and Product Engineering teams, the role will drive routing innovation, Internet connectivity, service resilience and operational efficiency, ensuring Colt continues to deliver highly available, scalable and secure network services to its global customers.
Join us and you will become part of a highly skilled engineering team responsible for building and evolving one of Europes leading service provider networks, working with the latest routing, automation and Internet technologies.
- Design, test, implement and optimise large-scale Tier-1 Internet and IP/MPLS backbone infrastructure supporting global carrier and enterprise services.
- Lead engineering activities for Internet backbone evolution, network integration, operational handover, service migration and strategic infrastructure transformation programmes.
- Design and optimise Internet Transit, Internet Exchange (IX) Peering, Private Peering, CDN Interconnects, Cloud Connectivity and Internet Edge routing architectures.
- Develop scalable routing solutions using IS-IS, BGP, Segment Routing (SR-MPLS/SRv6), MPLS and EVPN technologies, ensuring high availability, fast convergence and operational resilience.
- Engineer routing policies, traffic engineering strategies, capacity planning and backbone optimisation to improve network performance and customer experience.
- Support carrier-grade network services including DDoS mitigation, DNS infrastructure, NetFlow/IPFIX visibility and network telemetry solutions.
- Develop and maintain engineering automation, production validation and infrastructure-as-code solutions using modern automation frameworks.
- Produce High-Level Designs (HLD), Low-Level Designs (LLD), engineering standards, migration plans, implementation procedures and operational documentation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering, operations, security, product and vendor teams to deliver strategic network transformation initiatives.
- Proven experience designing, implementing and operating large-scale Tier-1 Service Provider Internet and IP/MPLS backbone networks.
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with Internet routing architectures, including Internet Transit, Tier-1/Tier-2 Peering, Internet Exchange (IX) Peering, CDN Interconnects, Cloud Connectivity, Internet Edge
- Routing, Routing Policy Engineering and Capacity Planning.
- Expert understanding of carrier-grade routing protocols including IS-IS (including Multi-Instance IS-IS), OSPF, iBGP/eBGP, Route Reflectors, BGP Communities, BGP-LU, BGP-LS and advanced routing policy frameworks.
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with Segment Routing technologies including SR-MPLS, SRv6, Prefix-SID, Adjacency-SID, TI-LFA, Remote LFA, Flex-Algo and Segment Routing Traffic Engineering.
- Proven experience designing, implementing and troubleshooting MPLS and EVPN services including L2VPN, L3VPN, EVPN-VPWS (Single-Homed and Multi-Homed) and EVPN-ELAN (Single-Homed and Multi-Homed).
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across cross-functional engineering teams.
At Colt, you ll make a difference. Because around here, we empower people. We don t tell you what to do.
Instead, we employ people we trust, who come together across the globe to create intelligent solutions.
Our global teams are full of ambitious, driven people, all working together towards one shared purpose: to put the power of the digital universe in the hands of our customers wherever, whenever and however they want.
We give our people the opportunity to inspire and lead teams, and work on projects that connect people, cities, businesses, and ideas. We want you to help us change the world, for the better.
Diversity and inclusion- Inclusion and valuing diversity of thought and experience are at the heart of our culture here at Colt. From day one, you ll be encouraged to be yourself because we believe that s what helps our people to thrive. We welcome people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability, neurodiversity, age, marital status, pregnancy status, or place of birth.
Most recently we have:
- Signed the UN Women Empowerment Principles which guide our Gender Action Plan
- Trained 60 (and growing) Colties to be Mental Health First Aiders
- Please speak with a member of our recruitment team if you require adjustments to our recruitment process to support you. For more information about our Inclusion and Diversity agenda, visit our DEI pages .
Our benefits support you through all parts of life, for both physical and mental health.
- Flexible working hours and the option to work from home.
- Extensive induction program with experienced mentors and buddies.
- Opportunities for further development and educational opportunities.
- Global Family Leave Policy.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Internal inclusion & diversity employee networks.
- When you join Colt you become part of our global network. We are proud of our colleagues and the stories and experience they bring - take a look at Our People site including our Empowered Women in Tech.
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