Job Description:

Mandatory skills:

• The candidate must have ability to lead independently, his/her job involves analyzing existing configuration of large network and making recommendations to improve performance.
• At least 10 years of design/configuration experience of large enterprise networks that comprises of Cisco & Arista routers and switches.
• Hands on experience with Cisco’s IOS, Catalyst and Nexus range of products and operating systems.
• Through knowledge in network fundamentals and  layer-2 protocols.
• The candidate must have thorough expert level experience in configuring and supporting EIGRP, OSPF and BGP routing protocols.
• Must have good experience with Wireshark packet analysis tool.
• Good experience with creating network diagrams in Visio and provide presentations in power point.
• Participate in the Change Management process to include creating new change request, reviewing submitted change forms, verify submitted change request information is complete, stage, and/or implement changes to network devices and update design documentation as required.
• Expertise in troubleshooting issues by studying network traffic flows, lock down an application, troubleshooting network problems in a service provider environment under short time constraints involving complex network application flows between multiple hosts spanning multiple firewalls and different geographic locations.
• Good knowledge with F5 load balancer.
• Good knowledge of Cisco ACI or Arista spine-leaf network architecture and VXLAN technologies.

Requirements:

• Knowledge in MPLS is preferred.
• Experience in Arista networking and CVP preferred.
• Extensive hands-on troubleshooting with routers, switches and load balancers.
• Experience with Palo Alto firewalls and Fortinet firewalls is desired.