Network Engineering Senior Specialist

Role: Network Engineering Senior Specialist

Work location: Alpharetta GA (Onsite)

Type: Contract

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
• Work under minimal supervision
• Experience in using test tools like Ixia/Spirent/ iperf Latency generators a big plus
• Network traffic analysis able to read pcaps Wireshark
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Collaborate and co-ordinate with Network and Security teams and vendors.
• Ability to deal with multiple projects and prioritize the tasks
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills a MUST
• Create all necessary test cases and develop config templates and operational manuals.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills while working with diverse audiences including highly skilled IT professionals and senior management.
• Collaborate with other technical teams at client to deliver product and solution level support.
• Facilitate the transition from PoC to certification to pilot to a fully established prod environment with focus preparing test plans and incremental updates to stakeholders.
• Extensive liaising with Cisco and Arista

Skills Required:

• Excellent Knowledge of Network protocols BGP OSPF Spanning Tree protocol Multicast
• Strong understanding of IPV6 fundamentals addressing NDP ICMPv6 DHCPv6 SLAAC IPV6 IPV4 implementation.
• Experience with Routing Protocols OSPFv3 BGPv6
• Knowledge on Cloud Networking and Security best practices (AWS Azure GCP)
• MS Azure VNet VNet-Peering Private Link vWAN Express Route Firewall Load Balancer
• AWS Global infrastructure VPC S3 EC2 Route 53 Transit Gateway Direct Connect
• Knowledge of firewalls and NAT64/DNS64 configuration.
• Design and troubleshoot Cisco Arista Network platforms and protocols
• IP Routing Platforms: ISR ASR1K ASR9K Catalyst 9K Catalyst8Kv Nexus9K
• Multicast: IGMPv2/v3 PIM Static RP RP-Anycast
• Overlay technologies like IPSEC DMVPN VXLAN MACSEC and SDWAN/SDA a plus
• Cabling and optics 10/25G/40G/50G/100G Break out cables break out panels.
• Ansible knowledge a huge plus
• Proficient in traffic generation tools like Ixia/Spirent iPerf3 Wireshark.
• Test automation within CI/CD infrastructure ROBOT framework a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes and IPV6 enabled CNI plugins like Calico and Cilium is a plus.