Requirements: English
Company: Vodafone
Region: Milan , Lombardy
The Network Development Engineer is accountable for the design, deployment and support of network fabric and systems through a combination of a deep level understanding of networking at the protocol level coupled with programming skills to support the intensive automation required to operate a production environment. This role is accountable for network solutions and detailed designs considering specifics like room location, TOR, raw row, hardware and stock allocation, Subnets, VLANs, etc. and including capacity and performance management.The Network Development Engineer contributes to architecture design process working closely with Network Architects and following their guidance, understanding impact on the associated environments, ensuring availability of supporting business and enabling Network infrastructure within Data Centers or external service providers. Role holder participates in Network lifecycle management through network build and/or upgrade projects. Collaborates with program/project managers to develop milestones and deliverables. Will primarily use existing procedures and tools to develop and safely execute network change. However, may have to develop new procedures and deployment documentation from time to time. Serves as technical lead for team projects. Contributes to the development of roadmap and has responsibility for developing standalone features.Being part of an Agile team, acts as Technical Product Owner of one of the Network Engineering product lines and provides the vision and direction to the Scrum team throughout the development lifecycle. Managing stakeholders and market needs the Technical Product Owner is responsible for aligning the team to deliver top notch features, market value and increase the customer satisfaction and other related KPIs of his/her product. The role is responsible for supporting the creation of user stories to an adequate level of granularity, assessing options for technical and business feasibility, and ensuring development is aligned to business outcomes. Provides regular feedback by testing deliverables against a user storys acceptance criteria and provides regular feedback by validating that the product meets the business goals. NDE provides third level support and remediation for escalated major network incidents. Leads post-event root cause analysis. Coordinates with networking automation services for the development and integration of support tooling. Frequently develops scripts to automate routine tasks. Collaborates with network vendor technical account team and internal Quality Assurance team to drive bug resolution and assist in the qualification of new firmware and/or operating systems. This role is responsible for mapping of the operational capacity, availability, and performance of the reference solutions against SLAs from level three support perspective. The role is responsible for providing business information during release and iteration planning, as well as supporting the review, refine and re-prioritization of the release backlog.Key accountabilities and decision ownership: Work with Private and Public Cloud service providers to forecast and right-size long-term capacity and performance requirements, iterating regularly. Determine user and technical story impact on existing architecture, work processes and systems. Design and implement supporting platform/infrastructure/network and tooling for software module development, orchestration and operations. Design and implement supporting database and middleware capabilities to support software module development and operations. Monitor and maintain Platform/infrastructure/network performance, capacity and availability. Define product vision and strategy, road-map and growth opportunities according to stakeholders and market needs. Work with the Lead Product Owner to define and prioritize the user stories aligned to the capability roadmap, providing a systems perspective. Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value. Plan and prioritize product feature backlog, manage the backlog throughout iterations, plan and refine user stories while explicitly ensuring transparency to all Scrum team members on what the definition of Done for each item. Work with UI/UX designer to outline customer journeys. Mitigate impediments with Scrum master and impact successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals. Work with Development team on the analysis of features and product backlog increments, ensuring they are all aware of the business value of each item. Ensure user stories are broken down to an adequate level of detail for execution by engineering. Support the development of and execution of acceptance tests based on acceptance criteria, verifying stories meet acceptance criteria. Analyse and report delivery risks and opportunities.Key performance indicators: Platform/network related P1 incidents.Core compe