Minimum 8+ years of overall experience working in a Network / Telecommunications role, with expert level experience with Routing and Switching , Firewall Management, Proxy Management, IDS/IPS Management, NAC Management, SD-WAN, VPN, Firewalls, etc technologies
Experience with technologies FortiGate Firewall, FortiManager, FortiSwitch and Fortinet SD-WAN is must.
Advanced Knowledge or Certifcations in Fortinet (Fortiswitch, Fortianalyer, Fortimanager)
Advanced Knowledge of Enterprise class Cisco network switches and routers (92xx,39xx,29xx,69xx, 2960, Nexus)
Advanced knowledge of Cisco IOS
Advanced knowledge of ASA and FTD Firewalls, FMC.
Experience with SDWAN technologies is must.
Expertise in Zscaler-ZIA/ZPA.
Experience with technologies such as: Cisco VPN, Any connect, Aruba GNAC & ClearPass
Extensive support of Routing Protocols/Technologies such BGP,OSPF, Logical Overlay, IOS-XR, MPLS VPN, Multicast.
Advanced Knowledge of Layer 2 and 3 switching including STP, ARP, 802.1x VLANs, VTP, HSRP
Advanced knowledge of Firewall and remote access solutions including Access-lists, NAT, SSL and IPSEC VPN, Site-to-Site and tunnels, Client-to-Site, and RSA.
AWS/Azure cloud exposure.
Understanding of IP Multicast architectures and related services.
Strong understanding of application communication methodologies.
Ability to perform TCP/IP Network traces/packet captures with solid experience interpreting results.
High level of confidence and competence communicating on bridges.
Solid background in vendor management to drive incident resolution.
Experience with monitoring tools and strategies
Execute and analyze packet captures using Wireshark and other related technologies.
Perform or participate in complex maintenance or deployment activities.
Create or modify documentation in response to new events and learnings.
Excellent customer focus and engagement skills
Ability to develop solutions within a complex operational environment
Key responsibilities include:
Assist Network Engineering group in adhering to process and procedures laid out by management.
Assist team in documentation, review and enhance network topology and performance.
Share team responsibility for capacity and availability planning and reporting on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.
Serves as subject matter expert and mentor to other Network Engineers.
Must be capable of requirements analysis and preparing designs and plans for network systems, expansions, and upgrades to provide connectivity as needs arise.
Design, configuration, and deployment of new network environment services and enhancements to include routing, switching, firewall, and load balancing solutions
Maintains technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing such as routers, firewalls, switches.
Ensure compliance with network engineering standards and processes across multiple data centers and remote sites
Plan and document new deployments and the associated network infrastructure changes
Infrastructure device upgrades or replacements
Investigate, troubleshoot, isolate, and document problems
Understand network risk assessment process and contingency planning
Research, analyze and implement software patches or hardware changes
Independently own the Security Infrastructure support solving complex issues and suggest design modifications as appropriate.
Ensure SLAs are met - Responsible for performance analysis, proactive troubleshooting and capacity planning for the Security platforms.
Perform monitoring and maintenance of overall environment working with experienced team members.
Perform change controls. Update process documentation and team portals
Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, performance analysis & Root Cause Analysis.
Communicate with peers and managers regarding system issues & participate in 24x7 on-call.
Automate operational tasks to make processes simpler and more robust.
Ability to handle multiple complex tasks in a dynamic environment, with tight deadlines concurrently.
Refresh heat-maps and operations plans for campus network Security connectivity
Monitor and analyze statistical data to develop improvement plans for network Security and application performance
Provide an effective network Security capacity plan
Develop and monitor global weekly and monthly trending reports by business sectors to justify future growth
Additional Responsibilities Include:
Oversees and directs all aspects of the 24/7/365 mission critical network/telecommunication infrastructure operations; including planning, supporting, and maintaining functions
Serves as the senior-level escalation point for network operations to resolve critical incidents
Maintains policy and procedures manual, conducts monthly service review meetings with key stakeholders.
Provides leadership, management, direction, and technical oversight for the network Security operations department procedure manual and processes used by the team
Brownie Points
Working experience in any public ( Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle , Aws or others) or hybrid cloud
Experience on Cloud native or third party firewalls on cloud
Azure or AWS networking ( NSG, UDR, VPC , VNET, Route63 and others)