Network SME

Role** Network SME

2 Required Technical Skill Set** Cisco Nexus 5k/7k,F5,VPN,F5 Load balancer,

Juniper Switches, Ansbile automation

Desired Competencies (Technical Competency)

Must-Have**

(Ideally should not be

more than 8-12)

- Experience in Network Support with Good Knowledge and

troubleshooting experience on Routing, Switching.

- Must have worked or managed enterprise grade datacenter networks

- Experience in working with Nexus5K, Nexus 7K/9K, Nexus

2K,routers,Juniper Switches

- Experience in Test, Implement, and Support Advanced Layer-2/3

Switching Solutions.

- Experience in Cisco or Juniper Routing and Switching, Cisco, Cisco

ISE, Cisco Meraki, F5 Load balancer

- Good Knowledge and experience in working of VRFs, VDCs, AAA,

SNMP,

- Monitoring tools, (DHCP/DNS/IPAM).

- Experience in management of F5 devices- GTM,LTM,WAF, VPN,

Firewalls

- Experience in upgrade of F5 devices- GTM,LTM,WAF, VPN, Firewalls

- Experience of Infoblox DNS & upgrades

- Experience with Juniper switches ,Core MX routers

- Experience in using Ansible Automation for various activities across

Network devices,F5(LTM,GTM,WAF,VPN) upgrades using Ansible

- Experience of SDN, Cisco ACI

- Experience in checkpoint, FortiGate or another firewall, Cisco Prime.

- Experience in configuration and troubleshooting knowledge in Layer2

protocols, such as: VLAN, Private VLANS, VTP, STP, DTP, Trunking,

Stacking. High Availability Protocols (HSRP, VRRP, GLBP),

EtherChannel, DOT1Q, ISL, SVI.

- Experience in configuring/troubleshooting of Layer3 Protocols such as:

BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, Static Routing, Floating Static Routing, Failover.

Good-to-Have

- Good to have knowledge with network management tools such as

configuration management, network health check tools, log collectors.

- Good to have knowledge in monitoring network with tools like (Cacti,

netcool, Nagios, PRTG, NetFlow, etc.)

- Good to have knowledge of using Spectrum/ E-Health/ Cisco-Prime/

NCM/ IPAM

- Should have knowledge of Infovista tool.

- Good to understand Internet Lease Lines, SDWAN, MPLS

SN Responsibility of / Expectations from the Role

1 Designs and configures network implementations/Upgrades

2 Participates as a Subject Matter Expert in architectural design reviews

3 Support for LAN/WAN networking technologies, including F5 LB support.

4 Perform analysis of various Projects and effort estimations

5 Perform upgrade, implementation across multiple Network devices – manual, Using Ansible automation

6 Develop configuration management capabilities and documentation practices