Network Connectivity Engineer

Role: WAN Engineer

Desired Experience Range: 8-10 YEARS

Location: Chennai / Hyderabad

Required Technical Skill Set

• Design, Deployment, and upgrade of PTP and CMPLS WAN circuits (MPLS, BGP, VRFs).
• Cisco Product line exclusively ASR 9000s & 1000s, Catalyst 4500s,3850s,3650s and Nexus 3000 series in addition to legacy cisco product line 7200,6500, ISR, FWSMs & ASA.
• Configuring & troubleshooting Layer 3 network protocols such as OSPF, ISIS & BGP.
• Having good knowledge on Infoblox configuration and management & upgrades
• Experience with QoS implementations for voice and video on Enterprise Networks.
• Experience with BGP routing protocol on internal Enterprise Networks.
• Experience with eBGP & MPLS to providing routing to diverse, globally connected ISPs and other autonomous systems.
• Have DNS, Proxy, VPN experience.
• WAN circuit service provider migration. Collaborated with ISP to resolve WAN issues.
• Troubleshooting of BGP, MPLS, IS-IS peering issues and work with ISPs.
• Exposure to entirely different distributors.
• An intensive understanding of how networks function.
• Knowledge and Data of network system capabilities
• Expertise in Network design
• Switching Models Cisco 6500/6900, Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K, VPC, FEX, VDC, Cisco VSS, Cisco Catalyst 4500, 3800, 3500 2900
• Strong knowledge in Routing technologies: Handling Cisco ISR/ASR routers, Protocols include BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, VRF, L3 VPNs, IPsec, VPN, QoS, Intelligent WAN
• Good working experience with routing protocols like EIGRP/OSPF/BGP/IS-IS/MPLS.

Desired Competencies (Technical/Behavioral Competency)

Must-Have

• Preparing specifications to define and illustrate network designs and configurations.
• CCIE Certification required.
• Have DNS, Proxy, VPN, Infoblox experience.
• Need to design network solution architecture and implementation documentation (customer and operational).
• Provide network WAN/LAN design, implementation, consulting and leadership for data and congregated communication infrastructure utilizing available Network equipment.
• Perform design integration for complex, cross-functional systems and lead technical design reviews of various infrastructure projects and function as a high-level technical resource.
• Provide Network Design Engineering services in support of a global customer's network.
• Should develop network designs and cost models for customer specific opportunities and same to be presented to product and contract management teams.
• Define and follow standards and best practices for network design, testing, and implementation methodology.
• Experience developing network designs and cost models
• Review the network design and bill of material with project manager and peer network engineers
• Coordinate schedules, tasks, resources, and dependencies for network design projects.
• Training the peers on end-to-end network designs and operating procedures.
• Design WAN infrastructure & Remote Connectivity to sites for customer.
• Need to designed IP address plan and naming convention to minimize address usage, optimize performance, and standardize equipment names.

Good-to-Have

• CCNA/CCNP Preferred
• CCDA/CCDP Preferred
• Experience in Network design and implementation
• Unix/Linux and Scripting knowledge preferred.

Role descriptions / Expectations from the Role

• Provide leadership, strategic direction, engineering and escalation support for Enterprise LAN/WAN, Data Center, and Campus Network platforms across North America locations.
• Develop and participate in the creation of roadmaps based on developing industry trends and best practices.
• Ensure operational efficiency in developed solutions by delivering high quality, easy to use solutions.
• Interface with North American business users and develop standards-based solutions to meet business demands for LAN, Data Center, and Campus platforms while managing total cost of ownership.
• Manage suppliers and contracted staff of network engineers to design, develop and deploy network solution.
• Establishes and maintains network performance.
• Builds net configurations and connections.
• Troubleshoots network problems.
• IP address auditing.
• Establishes networking environment by designing system configuration and directing system installation.
• Defines, documents, and enforces system standards.
• Collaborates with network architects on network optimization.