- Architecting, designing, installing, maintaining, and managing the equipment needed to provide Cloud Network Infrastructure including physical and SDN network framework.
- Ensuring a high level of availability, flexibility, and network performance and ensuring SLA is maintained.
- Maintaining, auditing, reviewing, and updating infrastructure documentation.
- Working collaboratively with the client and team members on day-to-day changes, incidents, and requests.
- Oversee a team of Network Engineers, provide technical expertise and guidance to the team where required. Evaluate the performance of team members on a periodic basis and provide feedback to the team and HR.
- Proactively monitoring and analyzing key performance and capacity metrics and trends to assess risks, business impact and provide recommendations.
- Prepare, review and deliver differentiated solution presentations or technical proposals related to cloud network infrastructure.
- Manage and/or deliver technical validation activities including Proof Of Concept.
Requirements
This is an in-depth technical role with 80% technical and 20% managerial capabilities. This role requires proven experience and the ability to provide hands on technical expertise and mentorship with a keen eye on the compliance of business SLAs and goals. Well be evaluating your candidature on the following criteria:
- At least 6-8 years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining DataCenter networks, L2/L3 technologies, Cisco/Juniper routers, switches and wireless, Cisco/Juniper/Fortigate firewalls, Load balancer etc.
Strong fundamentals and understanding of the following Data Center network technologies:
- WAN Routing technologies (Leased lines, GRE VPNs, IPSEC based VPNs, MPLS, BGP,OSPF, VRRP/HSRP, EVPN etc.)
- Security technologies (Firewalls, ACLs, NAT, IPS, IDS, RADIUS, TACACS+, IAS, VPN technologies)
- Switching (VLANs, VXLAN LACP, EtherChannel, 802.3ad, VTP, 802.1q)
- Familiarity with QoS including basic QoS commands and implementations
- Network monitoring Protocols Tools (SNMP, NetFlow , Zabbix, PRTG etc.)
- Good Knowledge of SDN Technologies, preferably hands-on experience on any one of the SDN provider VMWare NSX, Juniper Contrail/Tungsten, Arista, Cisco etc.
- Advanced troubleshooting skills and the ability to quickly narrow down and resolve problems.
- Highly motivated individual who is a self-starter and can demonstrate effective project management and completion of complex network tasks with little guidance.
- Motivated learner ability to quickly learn new technologies and keep networking skills current with emerging technologies
- Experience in handling a team of minimum 4 people in the above rol
