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Role Purpose
Support the Core Networks team to assess, plan, integrate, and support Enterprise Business with business solutions expertise in line with Vodafone standards and regulations. This is a hands-on role involving custom integrations with enterprise customers within Vodafone timelines, improving brand policy and service assurance.
Key Accountabilities
- Ensure that vulnerability management activities are carried out across the customer network and external perimeter, aligning with owners about detected vulnerabilities
- Plan and coordinate all activities required to provide extensive service assurance – monitoring, performance
- Ensure that approval of network architectures follows correct processes
- Develop processes, procedures, and policies for Change and Incident Management for senior management within Vodafone standards
- Perform risk analysis, support and track remediation plans, and govern the risk acceptance process as a result of network audits and business continuity governance
- Facilitate interactions between Core Networks and other teams, managing relationships with Internet community, engineering, enterprise, and operations teams
- Lead incident response and post-incident activities for high-severity enterprise customer incidents, ensuring that lessons learned are documented and distributed to all key stakeholders
- Advise and execute administrative activities of network transformation decisions related to planning, deployment, and optimization of networks and service enablers
Competencies
- Strong understanding of end-to-end Enterprise Network Architecture
- Experience in IP Network Planning, Dimensioning, and Audit
- Experience in Denial of Service attacks and mitigation systems, Intrusion Detection and Prevention
- Experience in Service Assurance Frameworks
Qualifications and Experience
- 3+ years of relevant experience in similar roles within structured and digitally oriented companies
- Master’s/Bachelor’s degree in Service Management, Computer Science, or Telecommunication Engineering (or an equivalent education path)
- Certifications in Cyber Security, Service Management, Service Strategy, ITILv3
- Very good knowledge of networking principles and protocols:
- IP technologies, IP Routing & Switching
- BGP, MPLS (option A/B/C), Route Reflectors
- Layer 3 VPN and Layer 2 VPN/VPLS/EVPN
- IS-IS, OSPF, VPC
- Equivalent knowledge of CCNP/CCIE
- Good knowledge of firewalls: Checkpoint, Juniper, CISCO ASA, F5, Nokia, Fortinet (or equivalent)
Commitment from Vodacom
Vodacom is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining the very best people by offering a flexible, motivating, and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognized, developed, and rewarded.
We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment that respects, values, celebrates, and makes the most of people’s individual differences — we are not only multinational but multicultural too.
At Vodacom, you will have access to our excellent flexible benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.
Closing date: 23 June 2025