Required Skills:

• Acquire knowledge and detailed understanding on customer’s network architecture
• Validate Scope of Work and Due Diligence of Data and identify gaps
• Validate RLS and identify skill gaps
• Responsible for giving reverse knowledge transfer to BAU and getting sign-off from customer and internal stakeholders
• Effectively articulate risks and get sign-off on SMTD, Risk Register and other technical/operational documents. Propose risk mitigation plan and options.
• Knowledge and ability to identify the risks on the customer Network and Security Architecture & make recommendations of solution options according to the industry best practices relevant for customer landscape
• Changes management in customer end Network devices for remote management of devices and onboarding of Monitoring tool

Technical Skills:

Good experience in various Network products such as Routers, Switches, Wireless and WAN Technologies and Optimizers

• Should have strong working knowledge on Cisco routers (including ISR & ASR)
• Should have strong working knowledge on switches such as Cisco Catalyst & Nexus,
• Should have strong working knowledge on Cisco and Aruba wireless controllers and access points
• Should have strong working knowledge on Riverbed WAN Optimizer
• Should have strong working knowledge on monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, Cisco DCNM and Cisco Prime
• Strong conceptual knowledge of routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS and switching protocols such as RSTP/MST, Link Aggregation, QoS, VLAN/VXLAN etc.
• Strong conceptual knowledge of WAN topologies and protocols like MPLS, VPN, DMVPN, P2P links
• Expertise in various DC technologies like VPC, VDC, FEX, VXLAN, OTV, LISP etc.
• Expertise in troubleshooting LAN & WAN issues. Provide assistance to localize the fault segment on the statistics collected and provide insight for further diagnosis
• Expert in installation & configuration of Routers, Switches, Wireless & WAN Optimization products
• Well versed with command line on Cisco
• Knowledge and working experience on Aryaka SD-WAN Technologies and products
• Knowledge and working experience on Infoblox IPAM solution and products
• Should be able to perform regular IOS upgradation and apply hotfixes
• Should be quickly able to identify network performance bottlenecks by constant monitoring and measurement of metrics and identification of impending faults
• Excellent hands-on deep packet analysis & periodic check of LAN/WAN traffic
• Knowledge of SDN/SDA/SDWAN technologies
• Knowledge of Wireshark
• Knowledge in Network Automation and Python scripting