Job Description: Job Responsibilities :

- Provide design, implementation and support for routers, switches, and controllers, including monitoring, annual hardware and software refresh budgetary estimates and expansion or upgrade of existing infrastructure.

- Participate in Security and Control related tasks such as audit and network infrastructure improvements

- Implements network changes to production devices, including planning, change management, configuration and troubleshooting.

- To be a resource for projects, i.e. plan and carry out network implementations

- Implement medium to large enterprise data networking infrastructure projects adhering to standard designs

- Develop and perform implementation activities for projects including fail-over testing

- Develop and implement non-standard work-arounds for production problems

- Identify operational problems resulting from design decisions from various sources (monitoring, trouble tickets, customer complaints, etc.) and report them back to evaluate solutions to these issues.

- Implement circuit upgrades which introduce changes to network design, hardware, telecom service provider or circuit technology changes.

- Identify and develop automation opportunities using existing tools e.g. BNA, Orchestration. Also maintain the related process documents

- Primary contact for vendor TAC in support of operational problems

-  Responsible for quality hand-over of implemented device/technology to the Network Operations team

Primary skill set:

•       Solid experience with CISCO or Juniper technologies (routing, switching, WAN/LAN protocols, Wireless etc.)

•       Familiar with medium and large enterprise networks

•       Familiar with optimization and performance with focus on capacity planning, performance monitoring and automation

Nice to Have skill sets :

•        CCNP routing and switching certification will be an added advantage

•        Programming/scripting : Python, Ansible

Additional information regarding technologies the current team uses:

- Switching Technologies: VLANs, Spanning Tree, Trunking, VTP, etc.

- TCP/IP: IPv4, IPv6

- Wireless LAN: Wireless LAN Controller, Light-weight APs, 802.11a/b/g/n, Mesh networks

- Network Tools: Netscout

- Secure Networking: 802.1x Port Security, IPsec, Network Address Translation, DMVPN,

- Various Network Services: DHCP, DNS

- Understanding of Radius and TACACS authentication with Cisco ISE