Senior Associate-IT-Network

REPORTING TO: GSC Network Manager - IT

GEOGRAPHICAL REPORTING LOCATION: Bangalore / Chennai

WORKING LOCATION: Bangalore / Chennai

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES UNDER RESPONSIBILITY : 0

OVERALL OBJECTIVES: As part of the IT Infrastructure Support Team for Eurofins Food, Feed & Environment Testing Europe, you will join a growing international team to work on maintenance of newly deployed segregated IT User Zones and Application Availability Groups. Your role will be to support daily operations tasks and may require to support operational deliverables for new infrastructure or migrate the existing network components. You will collaborate with number of different IT Support and Delivery Teams on daily basis. It will require networking and network security skills. Willingness to work in rotational shifts with open mind and ability to cooperate with multiple individuals in a multicultural environment is essential. You may also get an opportunity to participate and drive Eurofins major IT Infrastructure transition and transformation across Food, Feed & Environment Testing Europe businesses.

SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS :

• Maintain current IT User Zones and IT Application Availability Groups network infrastructure
• Design, plan and implement network IT Infrastructure for Transformation / Integration / Segregation throughout Food and Environment testing businesses across Europe. These projects will be aimed to perform installations, configuration and migrations of enterprise-level network IT infrastructure systems from legacy to the new solutions
• Propose and deliver solutions that best meet the business needs in terms of security, cost and bandwidth
• Work close with Server, Cloud, Application team members do deliver the IT Infrastructure as wider project. Act based on the end to end view of the Infrastructure
• Document the solutions delivered and help to transition the service to regional teams in final stage of the project.

REQUIRED SKILLS :

An ideal candidate should have strong 0-4+ years overall experience and 0-2+ years of relevant experience in all of the below:

• MUST HAVE Knowledge / Skills
  • CCNA certified. CCNP and / or CCIE certification is plus (CCIE-LAB)
  • Ideally a proven track of LAN / WAN / MPLS / SDWAN network infrastructure design and implementation during acquisitions, transitions and delivery on enterprise level
  • Experience with protocols like: DNS, DHCP, NTP, HTTP, BGP, OSPF, PKI, Certificates etc.
  • Cisco based routing and switching (CCNA-Mandatory and CCNP MUST, CCIE LAB-desirable)
    • Knowledge of protocols: IP, SNMP, SMTP, OSPF, BGP, VLAN
    • ACLs / Static routing / QoS
    • Switch stacking
    • STP / SPAN / RSPAN / Switch Virtualization / VSS (Virtual Switching System)
    • VLAN / Private-VLAN / Inter-VLAN Routing / VLAN Migration / Trunks
    • Switch Security - Storm-Control / VLAN Hopping, DHCP Snooping
    • Gateway Redundancy - VRRP / HSRP / GLBP
  • Must have working knowledge and experience in managing wireless infrastructure through (Meraki / Aruba / Aero Hive etc. )
  • Well versed with ITIL framework to support business operations as per defined SLA
  • Network components maintenance experience (upgrades etc. . . )
  • Ability to read, understand and create technical documentations, SOP, Run-books, Process guides etc . of the delivered solutions
  • VeloCloud SDWAN / MPLS
  • Network monitoring
  • Well versed with managing tickets handling and maintain CMDB through Service Now.

• GOOD TO HAVE Knowledge / Skills
  • Experience of complex network migrations
  • Next Generation Firewalls (Checkpoint, Palo Alto and FortiGate)
  • Fortinet packet flow and architecture knowledge along with hardware and systems configuration knowledge
    • FortiManager
    • FortiGate - NG Firewall, VPN, SDWAN
    • Fortinet
  • Checkpoint packet flow and architecture knowledge along with hardware and systems configuration knowledge
  • Data centre network experience is a plus.
  • Willing to take ownership with constructive mind-set as a team player. Willingness to support operations beyond job hours as and when required.
  • Very good command of English written and spoken
  • Ability to present technical projects on meetings
  • Experience in building Network infrastructure design diagrams (LLD and HLD) and transitions

• ADDITIONAL Knowledge / Skills
  • VOIP
  • Network Load Balancing / Application Load Balancer
  • VPN (ideally Pulse Secure)
  • Data centre network experience
  • Experience in complex network migration
  • Cloud Networking