Network Engineer - Routing & Switching (10-14 yrs)

Role - Network Engineer

Level - Senior & Lead

Experience - 10 to 14 years

Work Location - Bangalore

Notice Period - Immediate to 30 days

Mandatory Skills - Load Balancer, SD-WAN, Wireless, Routing, Switching, Firewalls

The resource should be a Subject Matter expert (SME) on Load balancing Technology, Routing and Switching, and Network Packet Brokers operation.

The primary responsibility will be managing the 24x7 Network Support & Operation for Load-Balancing

You will work closely with the teams from Network Projects, EUS leads, NOC, and other cross-functional teams who are managing systems and applications to drive efficiency and improvements in supporting/managing the business.

Essential Responsibilities :

Roles & Responsibilities :

- The primary responsibility would be overseeing complete Load balancing and network Packet Broker operation.

- Load Balancing Engineer with hands-on experience on F5 BIG-IP GTM and LTM devices as well as Citrix NetScaler.

- Hands-on experience in migrating other load balancer vendors to F5 Load Balancer

- Must be an expert in F5 and Citrix load-balancing platforms.

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Should analyse, design, implement, and maintain the networks F5 and Citrix NetScaler Load Balancer infrastructure.

- Should inspect data packets and TCP, IP flow in network and application flow.

- Should possess a working knowledge of switches, routers, and firewall concepts.

- Should be able to configure and maintain F5 and Citrix Load Balancers, load balancing best practices.

- Should also take the responsibility to upgrade network operating systems software and hardware as per the management requirements.

- Must ensure that the plans are integrated effectively with the other aspects of the technical infrastructure.

- Extensive knowledge of load-balancing technology, including algorithms and health-check options.

- Knowledge and experience regarding F5 BIG-IP LTM VIP configuration with health check.

- Knowledge and experience with F5 BIG-IP GTM Wide IP configuration.

- F5 BIG-IP iRule programming and troubleshooting experience.

- Extensive knowledge of Citrix NetScaler VIP configuration with health check.

- Knowledge and experience with Citrix NetScaler Global Load Balancing (Gslb) configuration.

- Candidate must have extensive experience working in structured change management, Problem and Incident processes.

- Candidate must have production environment experience consisting of Global load balancing, Local load balancing, SSL acceleration, HTTP compression/caching, and DNS.

- Candidate must have strong Networking Experience - TCP / IP, Administration of networking hardware.

- The candidate must have design and maintenance experience with complex Web hosting network architectures.

- Experience directly managing routers, switches, load balancers, and SSL accelerators in a high-availability infrastructure is required.

- Expert understanding of TCP as it pertains to packet inspection and network/application flows.

- Expert ability to troubleshoot issues and make recommendations for system changes, as needed, to resolve issues.

- Must have integration/configuration/administration experience and possess a solid Network background, including an understanding of switch, network routing, and firewall concepts.

- The Load Balancing Engineer must possess very strong troubleshooting skills as well as a strong TCP understanding as it pertains to packet inspection and TCP flow in the Network and Application flows.

- The Load Balancing Engineer must have a very good understanding of DNS functionality and concepts as it relates to IPv4 and IPv6.

- Deep understanding of network protocols (Routing / Switching)

- Design and implement Load balancing rules using industry best practices.

- Communicate network architecture designs clearly and effectively to technical and non-technical decision makers

- Perform security hardening of network systems.

- Develop or contribute to technical documentation including Low-Level design documentation, Technical Implementation documents, deployment/build plans, and test plans.

- Deploy a designed solution within a testing environment to verify compliance with security and functional requirements.

- Implementing F5 Traffic path switching (TPS) in addition to application-based load balancing

- Provide cutover support when solution is deployed in the production environment (Go Live).

- Data collection, analysis and change recommendations of configuration

- Collection and analysis of customer network information as well as packet capture.

- Recommending corrective actions based on gathered data and its analysis

- Ability to learn and apply new technologies, architectural design patterns, and the latest solutions.

- Troubleshooting and resolving implementation issues.

- Update skills regularly on the new technologies and attend workshops

- Project documentation, including solution document, plan of action, and implementation document.

- Hands-on and in-depth troubleshooting skills on Routers, SDWAN, LAN, Campus, All routing technologies, Ipv6, and WIFI technologies.

- Lead crisis/incident event management incidents as needed

- Support adoption of new technologies and tools, recommend capability improvements to network engineering, and assist in lab/ QA deployments for technology trials.

- Direct the continuous and secure maintenance of the corporate, data centre, and cloud networking infrastructure, including network security and Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plans.

- Responsible for accurate assessment management of all network devices in CMDB

- Responsible for upgrades and patches as required, and meeting all security & compliance requirements.

- Ensure service-level targets are met and address all service-level complaints.

- Participate in disaster recovery/business continuity activities, as needed.

- Establish standards and governance in future acquisitions to mitigate risk and maximize network stability.

- Responsible for participating in Audits and providing information related to network-specific diagrams, configurations, processes, and procedures.

- Responsible for remediation for any vulnerabilities related to audits.

- Could you provide subject matter expertise in interactions with partners and customers and program manage collaboration

projects internally?

- Manage the software lifecycle.

- Troubleshoot, design, and deploy iXia

- Utilize APIs and automation for iXia and Arista systems

- Administer and manage iXia the Switches!

- Work with network switch, routing, tap, and span

- Collaborate with the team on troubleshooting and deployment tasks

Qualification :

- Bachelor's Degree in IT/Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; or equivalent work experience

- Minimum of 8-12 years of Network work experience in network Operations

- Hands-on and in-depth skill experience in recommending, implementing, maintaining state-of-the-art network hardware and software systems.

- Network & Infrastructure experience specific to medium to large size organizations

- Ability to be flexible, decision-oriented, and motivated to support management initiatives.

- Handle incidents on a case-by-case basis.

- Could you coordinate with OEM and vendor for any issues?

- Find out the RCA of major issues.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Current or held advanced network technical certification (e.g., CCNA/CCIE/CCNP, JNCIE/JNCIS, or relevant industry certification etc.

- Experience or background with automation using Terraform, Ansible and/or Python will be an added advantage.

- Prior experience in multi-vendor networking technologies.

- Demonstrated experience of metrics-driven management with accountability.

- This position requires the incumbent to travel up to 15% of the time.

- Incumbents must make themselves available during core business hours and any on-call escalation after business hours.