Network Team Lead - Technical Operations
Role Overview :
We are looking for an energetic and dynamic Network Team Lead with around 6-8 years of experience in a data center networking domain with 1-3 years of experience in Software Defined Networking(SDN) specifically in a private cloud & virtualization domain.
Responsibilities :
Your responsibilities in this role will be centered around the following :
- Architecting, designing, installing, maintaining, and managing the equipment needed to provide Cloud Network Infrastructure including physical and SDN network framework.
- Ensuring a high level of availability, flexibility, and network performance and ensuring SLA is maintained.
- Maintaining, auditing, reviewing, and updating infrastructure documentation.
- Working collaboratively with the client and team members on day-to-day changes, incidents, and requests.
- Oversee a team of Network Engineers, provide technical expertise and guidance to the team where required. Evaluate the performance of team members on a periodic basis and provide feedback to the team and HR.
- Proactively monitoring and analyzing key performance and capacity metrics and trends to assess risks, business impact and provide recommendations.
- Prepare, review and deliver differentiated solution presentations or technical proposals related to cloud network infrastructure.
- Manage and / or deliver technical validation activities including Proof Of Concept.
Requirements :
This is an in-depth technical role with 80% technical and 20% managerial capabilities. This role requires proven experience and the ability to provide hands on technical expertise and mentorship with a keen eye on the compliance of business SLAs and goals. We’ll be evaluating your candidature on the following criteria :
At least 6-8 years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining DataCenter networks, L2 / L3 technologies, Cisco / Juniper routers, switches and wireless, Cisco / Juniper / Fortigate firewalls, Load balancer etc.Strong fundamentals and understanding of the following Data Center network technologies :WAN & Routing technologies (Leased lines, GRE VPNs, IPSEC based VPNs, MPLS, BGP,OSPF, VRRP / HSRP, EVPN etc.)Security technologies (Firewalls, ACLs, NAT, IPS, IDS, RADIUS, TACACS+, IAS, VPN technologies)Switching (VLANs, VXLAN LACP, EtherChannel, 802.3ad, VTP, 802.1q)Familiarity with QoS including basic QoS commands and implementationsNetwork monitoring Protocols & Tools (SNMP, NetFlow , Zabbix, PRTG etc.)Good Knowledge of SDN Technologies, preferably hands-on experience on any one of the SDN provider – VMWare NSX, Juniper Contrail / Tungsten, Arista, Cisco etc.Advanced troubleshooting skills and the ability to quickly narrow down and resolve problems.Highly motivated individual who is a self-starter and can demonstrate effective project management and completion of complex network tasks with little guidance.Motivated learner – ability to quickly learn new technologies and keep networking skills current with emerging technologiesExperience in handling a team of minimum 4 people in the above role.Bonus attributes that will help your application :
Hands-on expertise on CloudStack networking