L3 Network Engineer (Onsite)

Role : Subject Matter Expert (SME with L3 or L3+ skill set) in Network Data

Key Roles and responsibilities

• Acquire knowledge and detailed understanding on customer’s network architecture
• Validate Scope of Work and Due Diligence of Data and identify gaps
• Validate RLS and identify skill gaps
• Gather required and detailed information and develop SMTD with complete understanding of customer network architecture
• Responsible for giving reverse knowledge transfer to BAU and getting sign-off from customer and internal stakeholders
• Effectively articulate risks and get sign-off on SMTD, Risk Register and other technical / operational documents. Propose risk mitigation plan and options.
• Participate in project planning and prepare MPP
• Responsible for implementing best practice, hardening, service assurance role-out
• Knowledge and ability to identify the risks on the customer Network and Security Architecture & make recommendations of solution options according to the industry best practices relevant for customer landscape
• Changes management in customer end Network devices for remote management of devices and onboarding of Monitoring tool

Self driven and self-motivated individual who can lead from the front and take end to end ownership of the Network and Security Tower for seamless transition and smooth Go Live of services from the perspective of People, Process and Technology.

Technical skills : Should have minimum 12+ years hands on experience in various Network products such as Routers, Switches, Wireless and WAN Technologies and Optimizers

Mandatory Skills (Must Have)

• Should have strong working knowledge on Cisco routers (including ISR & ASR)
• Should have strong working knowledge on switches such as Cisco Catalyst & Nexus,
• Should have strong working knowledge on Cisco and Aruba wireless controllers and access points
• Should have strong working knowledge on Riverbed WAN Optimizer
• Should have strong working knowledge on monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, Cisco DCNM and Cisco Prime
• Strong conceptual knowledge of routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS and switching protocols such as RSTP / MST, Link Aggregation, QoS, VLAN / VXLAN etc.
• Strong conceptual knowledge of WAN topologies and protocols like MPLS, VPN, DMVPN, P2P links
• Expertise in various DC technologies like VPC, VDC, FEX, VXLAN, OTV, LISP etc.
• Expertise in troubleshooting LAN & WAN issues. Provide assistance to localize the fault segment on the statistics collected and provide insight for further diagnosis
• Expert in installation & configuration of Routers, Switches, Wireless & WAN Optimization products
• Well versed with command line on Cisco
• Knowledge and working experience on Aryaka SD-WAN Technologies and products
• Knowledge and working experience on Infoblox IPAM solution and products
• Should be able to perform regular IOS upgradation and apply hotfixes
• Should be quickly able to identify network performance bottlenecks by constant monitoring and measurement of metrics and identification of impending faults
• Excellent hands-on deep packet analysis & periodic check of LAN / WAN traffic

Optional Skills (Good to Have)

• Knowledge of SDN / SDA / SDWAN technologies
• Knowledge of Wireshark
• Knowledge in Network Automation and Python scripting
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