Required Skills:
• Minimum 8+ years experience in an Enterprise Network Operations support environment.
• Experience with Network technologies such as:
o Routing, Switching - LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, QoS, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, Multicast, IPv4/v6, MPLS.
o Network Virtualization/ automation: Cisco ACI, Arista fabric Network (including cloudvision and VXLAN encapsulations) , Cisco DNAC/Catalyst center, PRISMA, Palo Alto CloudGenix.
o WiFi Technologies - Aruba/CISCO wireless Controllers, Access Points, Management Platforms.
o VPN tunnel protocols - SSL/TLS, GRE, L2TP, ESP, IKEv2 IPSEC
• Experience with troubleshooting complex networking problems.
• Expertise in packet capture analysis using Wireshark, tcpdump/ssldump from L2 to L7 traffic flow.
• Experienced in both proactive and reactive use of advanced network monitoring tools, including but not limited to: Netscout, Wireshark, Splunk, SevOne, HPNA, IBM Watson.
• Confident, Vocal, self-starter, organized and detail oriented.
• Strong technical acumen and analytical skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to work with all levels of management and clients.
• Skilled at aligning actions with business impact and service restoration priorities
• Demonstrates ownership, accountable and can hold others accountable (professionally).
Desired Skills:
Experience in Network design, implementation, or operations role.
• Experience operating in follow-the-sun 24/7 global support model.
• Experience working in greenfield, brownfield deployments, Low latency/high frequency trading environments.
• Worked with Network enclave deployments be it standalone or sub divided segmentation such as secure intranet.
• Experience with automation tools such as Python, Ansible and API structures.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Agile framework SCRUM ceremonies.
• Experience of working within financial services (Insurance, Banking, Investment banking).
• Experience with other network technologies.
o Optical transport, DWDM, Firewall, Proxy, loadbalancing, DNS/IPAM, AAA NAC- dot1x/radius.
• Possesses forward-thinking approach to risk identification and mitigation.
• Understand configuration management with tools such as Forward Networks and HPNA.
• Relevant and current Industry certifications in Network Technologies.