Job Description

Broad outline of the Role

• The position will be both challenging and rewarding while offering the individual flexibility to work on several different IP network projects in the realms of Network infrastructure Planning & Design, Optimization and Evolution. The ability to multitask on several initiatives and capable of working with cross-functional teams, assessing project details, requirements, risks. Provides Assistance to Leads across multiple projects with minor, major or complex issues. A person shall exercise actions within a project and technical support on various network environments across the globe.

Purpose - Broad objective of the role

The position will be both challenging and rewarding while offering the individual flexibility to work on several different IP network projects in the realms of Network infrastructure Planning & Design, Optimization and Evolution. The ability to multitask on several initiatives and capable of working with cross-functional teams, assessing project details, requirements, risks. Provides Assistance to Leads across multiple projects with minor, major or complex issues. A person shall exercise actions within a project and technical support on various network environments across the globe.

Minimum qualification & experience

• BS/MS/BE/BTECH in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering is desirable.
• 7-10 Years of working in Telecommunications or IT engineering roles.

Other knowledge/skills

• Strong Consultancy, Design, Implementation and Migration, customer handling exposure, ability to work on multiple projects and manage customers appropriately.
• Extensive experience in a technical role including strong experience supporting large SP networks and Voice solutions.
• Should have worked on Routing, Switching, Juniper MX/SRX platform, ASR/IOS-XR.
• Experience in preparing High Level Design & Low-level Design documents.
• Excellent and deep hands-on and planning capabilities in TCP/IP, MPLS, L2/L3 VPN, IPSEC, GRE, Traffic Engineering, IGP, BGP, Internet peering/exchanges, Nexus VPC peering.
• Strong knowledge of IP-related protocols including IS-IS, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, LDP, QOS solutions, and IPv4/ IPv6 standards/protocols.
• Experience in IP MPLS technology including VRFs, L2/L3 VPNs, understanding of MP-BGP architecture etc.
• Strong knowledge in Service Provider background.
• Hands-on experience with network services (DHCP, SNMP, FTP, TFTP, DNS, NTP).
• Strong hands-on experience on Cisco IOS, IOS-XR & JunOS CLI.
• Experience on different firewalls like Cisco, Juniper SRX, Fortinet.
• Must have Design/Architecture & Implementation experience in large networks.

Key Responsibilities

Preparing High Level Design & Low-level Design documents.
Assist with Network solutions across the lab and production environments.
Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware and software problems on environments and cloud computing partners.
Perform testing routinely. system, server, application, network, and input/output device performance while performing and testing routinely.
Test and Validate software and hardware improvements, upgrades, patches, reconfigurations.
Assist in Lead Architect documentation and diagrams.
Assist in Lead Architect with evaluations and vendor proof of concept (PoC) testing.
Assist in Lead Architect in road map, product life cycles, critical production support.
Analyze business requirements to develop technical network solutions & their frameworks.

Technical Competencies

• Advanced understanding of networking systems and TCP/IP. Strong knowledge of Cisco, Juniper & other vendor hardware platforms.
• Experience in preparing High Level Design & Low-level Design documents.
• Excellent and deep hands-on and planning capabilities in TCP/IP, MPLS, L2/L3 VPN, IPSEC, GRE, Traffic Engineering, IGP, BGP, Internet peering/exchanges, Nexus VPC peering.
• Strong knowledge of IP-related protocols including IS-IS, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, LDP, QOS solutions, and IPv4/ IPv6 standards/protocols.
• Experience in IP MPLS technology including VRFs, L2/L3 VPNs, understanding of MP-BGP architecture etc.
• Experience with network technologies, topologies, IP addressing, V-LANs, Firewalls, etc.
• Strong knowledge of Cisco/Juniper Routing, switching, understanding of different Routing Protocols (OSPF, IS-IS, BGP) and Redundancy Protocols (HSRP, VRRP, GLRP) to include experience troubleshooting issues with these protocols. Different firewall (Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet), F5 Load balancer etc.
• Experience in IP MPLS technology including VRFs, L2/L3 VPNs, understanding of MP-BGP architecture etc.
• Understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs and routing in LAN/WAN.
• Hands-on experience on Cisco IOS-XR & Juniper JunOS devices will be a plus.
• Experience or General Understanding in mobile, voice, video and message services a Plus but not necessarily.
• Ability to execute a Plan and action items on key Projects or POC
• MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, etc.
• Excellent communication and customer presentation skills
• Ability to recognize, analyses, and effectively solve problems in a timely and organized manner using industry best practices and procedures.
• Functions as the expert in networking experience as well as LAN/WAN optimization experience.
• Resolve hardware, operational, infrastructure within services platform switch and routing infrastructure.

Preferred Certifications:

• JNCIA/JNCIS/JNCIP/JNCIE/CCNA/CCNP/CCIE or other equivalent.

Knowledge / Skills

13. Is innovative - his/her ideas have led to new things that have added significant value.

16. Takes initiative and stretches to contribute to activities outside his/her areas of responsibilities.

17. Takes risks to go into newer areas in which he/she does not have prior experience.

18. Always strives and puts the extra effort for successful outcomes.

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