Cisco Network Engineer

About the Company

They balance innovation with an open, friendly culture and the backing of a long-established parent company, known for its ethical reputation. We guide customers from what's now to what's next by unlocking the value of their data and applications to solve their digital challenges, achieving outcomes that benefit both business and society.

About the Client

Our client is a global digital solutions and technology consulting company headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company generates annual revenue of over $4.29 billion (35,517 crore), reflecting a 4.4% year-over-year growth in USD terms. It has a workforce of around 86,000 professionals operating in more than 40 countries and serves a global client base of over 700 organizations. Our client operates across several major industry sectors, including Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI), Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Manufacturing & Consumer. In the past year, the company achieved a net profit of $553.4 million (4,584.6 crore), marking a 1.4% increase from the previous year. It also recorded a strong order inflow of $5.6 billion, up 15.7% year-over-year, highlighting growing demand across its service lines. Key focus areas include Digital Transformation, Enterprise AI, Data & Analytics, and Product Engineeringreflecting its strategic commitment to driving innovation and value for clients across industries.

Job Title: Network Cisco +Python automation

Location: Pune

Experience: 8-12 yrs

About the Role

Technical Expertise:

• Proficiency in Python is essential, while familiarity with PyATS is highly recommended.
• Basic knowledge of Linux is required.
• AAA - Understanding in both Local and Remote authentication
• Radius - Understanding of both UDP-based and TCP-based Radius protocols
• Tacacs - Knowledge of TCP/TLS-based protocols
• Remote AAA Server - Experience with ISE, openradius, or opentacacs is beneficial.
• SSH - Ability to implement Password or password-less authentication, along with knowledge of ciphers, MAC, and Keytype algorithms
• Telnet - Familiarity with this protocol
• HTTP/HTTPS - Understanding of TLS versions and the ability to perform basic GET/SET operations
• SNMP - Experience with Versions 1, 2c, and 3, as well as SNMP operations such as snmpwalk, get, getnext, and set, including authentication and privacy for SNMPv3
• Openssl/OpenSSH - Proficiency in these open-source code.
• PKI-based certificate management - Knowledge in this area is important.
• Familiarity with copy protocols such as SCP, SFTP, TFTP, FTP, HTTP, etc.

NTP - Understanding of Network Time Protocol

Good to Have:

• Containers and Kubernetes - User level and deployment
• Awareness of different password types including 0, 5, 7, 8, and 9.
• L3 Routing protocols such as OSPF is important.
• Experience in server bring-up, particularly with SFTP, SCP, and FTP protocols.
• Certification such as CCNA or CCNP is preferable. Alternatively, experience working with L2/L3 devices or any other switch experience is acceptable