Senior Network Cloud Engineer

Position: Senior Network Cloud Engineer

Location: NYC NY or Alpharetta GA

Duration : Contract

• Looking for any cloud Azure AWS. Our program introduces IPV6. Good understanding of IPV6. Needs to be excellent in all BGP Routing and networking concepts
• We need a person who is experienced and has good basics in routing switching networks
• IPV 4 to IPV6 connectivity into the cloud. Should know about various connections. Should have automation capabilities for ex: Terraform Ansible.
• Person should come to face 2 face interview either in Alpharetta or in NYC.

Job Description:

• This position is a highly skilled Cloud Network Test Engineer role with deep knowledge of IPV6 and hands-on experience across Public Cloud Infrastructures AWS Azure and GCP.
• Candidates focus must be developing the lab testing frameworks validating expected test performance on the IPV6 and dual-stack networking in cloud-native and enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will design test strategies and ensure compliance with IPV6 readiness standards across public clouds.
• The position requires coordination with other teams in gathering certification requirements translating those requirements into a detailed test plan executing them in coordination with other team members in a live lab environment.
• This entails troubleshooting code/ platform lifecycle mgt and provide solutions to complex hardware/software problems.
• The work involves close coordination across BU technologists in translating their network needs from business requirements providing escalation support to network operations in validating bugs/vulnerabilities/work arounds in the lab providing solutions documenting the exposure/impact and presenting to the ENS forum for approval and assisting Operations in piloting those solutions in production environment.
• This role will drive the IPV6 validation across multi cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures develop sophisticated test automation frameworks using Terraform Ansible CloudFormation tools.
• The responsibilities include testing network DMZ designs and certifying the underlying hardware software features and enhancing overall security posture of the network.
• The candidate would be required to identity various communication scenarios and create & execute and/ or oversee the testing do the related data gathering and analytics capabilities and prepare related design and deployment templates.
• The successful candidate would have a deep understanding and hands-on experience on Routing and Switching of Cisco platforms IPV6 on-prem and cloud-based infrastructures and related security/ hardening aspects.
• Candidate is expected to be well versed in Cisco IOS-XE/ XR/ NXOS products general network hygiene best practices security and availability with understanding network security aspects and trends.
• The candidate will be collaborating with highly skilled infrastructure engineers and architects from across multiple verticals (e.g. cloud/ compute/ security/ telemetry/ desktop engineering teams/ security architects et al) and senior management often on a day-to-day basis. It is absolute imperative that he/ she has excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications:

• 8 Years of experience with LAN/WAN network design engineering and feature testing/ certification. CCIE/CCNP certified or equivalent Level of experience AWS Advanced Networking Azure Network Engineer or GCP cloud Network Engineer certifications are desired.
• 4 years of experience with Cloud PaaS and/or IaaS (Azure AWS).
• Well versed in cloud networking solutions understanding of cloud compute and related cloud operating models.
• Must have understanding AWS constructs like VPC IPV6 addressing Internet Gateway Transit Gateway Direct Connect Route 53 Azure: VNet IPv6 Azure Load balancer IPV6 Express Route NSGs Azure Network Watcher GCP: Cloud Routers Google Access for IPv6 Cloud NAT64 Interconnect VPC Flow Logs.
• 3 years of IPV6 Networking and validation experience.
• Experience with building Lab designs and certification of hardware and software of products performing PoCs.
• Strong knowledge of Networking technologies: TCP/IP BGP OSPF MPBGP MPLS VPNs VxLAN Multicast Well versed in DMVPN IPSEC and Encryption Standards Network Security Experience on Cisco IOS-XE Nexus Devices. Python Network programming knowledge is a plus. Knowledge in Agile process is a plus.