Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum 8+ years of overall experience working in a Network / Telecommunications role, with expert level experience with Routing and Switching , Firewall Management, Proxy Management, IDS/IPS Management, NAC Management, SD-WAN, VPN, Firewalls, etc technologies
• Experience with technologies FortiGate Firewall, FortiManager, FortiSwitch and Fortinet SD-WAN is must.
• Advanced Knowledge or Certifcations in Fortinet (Fortiswitch, Fortianalyer, Fortimanager)
• Advanced Knowledge of Enterprise class Cisco network switches and routers (92xx,39xx,29xx,69xx, 2960, Nexus)
• Advanced knowledge of Cisco IOS
• Advanced knowledge of ASA and FTD Firewalls, FMC.
• Experience with SDWAN technologies is must.
• Expertise in Zscaler-ZIA/ZPA.
• Experience with technologies such as: Cisco VPN, Any connect, Aruba GNAC & ClearPass
• Extensive support of Routing Protocols/Technologies such BGP,OSPF, Logical Overlay, IOS-XR, MPLS VPN, Multicast.
• Advanced Knowledge of Layer 2 and 3 switching including STP, ARP, 802.1x VLANs, VTP, HSRP
• Advanced knowledge of Firewall and remote access solutions including Access-lists, NAT, SSL and IPSEC VPN, Site-to-Site and tunnels, Client-to-Site, and RSA.
• AWS/Azure cloud exposure.
• Understanding of IP Multicast architectures and related services.
• Strong understanding of application communication methodologies.
• Ability to perform TCP/IP Network traces/packet captures with solid experience interpreting results.
• High level of confidence and competence communicating on bridges.
• Solid background in vendor management to drive incident resolution.
• Experience with monitoring tools and strategies
• Execute and analyze packet captures using Wireshark and other related technologies.
• Perform or participate in complex maintenance or deployment activities.
• Create or modify documentation in response to new events and learnings.
• Excellent customer focus and engagement skills 
• Ability to develop solutions within a complex operational environment.

Shift Timings would be :- 1 PM to 10 PM IST

Key responsibilities include:

• Assist Network Engineering group in adhering to process and procedures laid out by management.
• Assist team in documentation, review and enhance network topology and performance.
• Share team responsibility for capacity and availability planning and reporting on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.
• Serves as subject matter expert and mentor to other Network Engineers.
• Must be capable of requirements analysis and preparing designs and plans for network systems, expansions, and upgrades to provide connectivity as needs arise.
• Design, configuration, and deployment of new network environment services and enhancements to include routing, switching, firewall, and load balancing solutions
• Maintains technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing such as routers, firewalls, switches.
• Ensure compliance with network engineering standards and processes across multiple data centers and remote sites
• Plan and document new deployments and the associated network infrastructure changes
• Infrastructure device upgrades or replacements
• Investigate, troubleshoot, isolate, and document problems
• Understand network risk assessment process and contingency planning
• Research, analyze and implement software patches or hardware changes
• Independently own the Security Infrastructure support solving complex issues and suggest design modifications as appropriate.
  • Ensure SLAs are met - Responsible for performance analysis, proactive troubleshooting and capacity planning for the Security platforms.
  • Perform monitoring and maintenance of overall environment working with experienced team members.
  • Perform change controls. Update process documentation and team portals
  • Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, performance analysis & Root Cause Analysis.
  • Communicate with peers and managers regarding system issues & participate in 24x7 on-call.
  • Automate operational tasks to make processes simpler and more robust.
  • Ability to handle multiple complex tasks in a dynamic environment, with tight deadlines concurrently.
• Refresh heat-maps and operations plans for campus network Security connectivity
• Monitor and analyze statistical data to develop improvement plans for network Security and application performance 
• Provide an effective network Security capacity plan
• Develop and monitor global weekly and monthly trending reports by business sectors to justify future growth 

Additional Responsibilities Include:

• Oversees and directs all aspects of the 24/7/365 mission critical network/telecommunication infrastructure operations; including planning, supporting, and maintaining functions
• Serves as the senior-level escalation point for network operations to resolve critical incidents 
• Maintains policy and procedures manual, conducts monthly service review meetings with key stakeholders.
• Provides leadership, management, direction, and technical oversight for the network Security operations department procedure manual and processes used by the team

Brownie Points

1. Working experience in any public ( Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle , Aws or others) or hybrid cloud
2. Experience on Cloud native or third party firewalls on cloud
3. Azure or AWS networking ( NSG, UDR,  VPC , VNET, Route63 and others)

Key skills: ZScalar, Cisco, Fortinet, and AWS