Job Title: Senior Consultant | Technical Architect | Bengaluru | Technology Strategy & Transformation
Role: Enterprise and data center IT network specialist / SME
Total Experience: Consultant (5+ years), Senior Consultant (7+ years)
Base Location: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Delhi/NCR
Certification: Must have any networking domain certification such as
- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
- CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+
- AWS certified advanced networking Cloud certified.
Role Summary:
We are looking for an enterprise and data center IT network specialist who poses core IT networking skills, a solid foundation for working in the IT and networking infra management domain and showcase strong experience in deploy, manage, migrate, secure, and troubleshoot a wide range of data center network infrastructures. The role demands to lead or support end to end technology transformation engagements, offering network strategy domain, implementation and optimization services for large enterprises. The Subject matter expert (SME) having proficiency in working with multi-vendor and multi network domain solutions across on-premises and hybrid cloud networking. You’ll work closely with client stakeholders, OEM vendors, and internal teams to deliver value-driven, secure, and future-ready infrastructure solutions.
Technical Skills Required:
· Strong working experience on LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, and firewall networking technologies.
· Expertise in deploy and configure network devices, routing protocols – static, RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGR), redundancy protocols (HSRP, VRRP, Cluster), IP addressing (IPV4/IPV6, subnetting and CIDR), routing tables, and security policies.
· Proficiency in setting up access controls (ACLs), encryption protocols (e.g., SSL/TLS, IPSec), Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IPS/IDS) and VPN services.
· Exposure to SDN and network virtualization technologies and solutions.
· Wired and Wireless LAN Networking – Deploying and configuring Nexus, DC leaf & Spine, Cisco ACI, L2/L3 switches fabric, network segmentations, SD-LAN (Cisco, Aruba & Dell) technologies.
· Wireless Networking – Good knowledge of Wi-Fi standards (e.g., 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax) and their respective strengths, limitations, security protocols (WPA2, WPA3). Expertise in installing WLC and access points as per heatmap design and conduct performance optimization and assessment and tunning as per end user traffic requirements. Good exposure to Wi-Fi6/6E and Wi-Fi7 solutions.
· WAN Networking - Hands on experience of IP routing, Ethernet, MPLS, DIA, P2P, ILL, Mobile Networks (4G/LTE, 5G), QOS, IPSec VPN, Vendor solutions for routers and SD-WAN (Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, Aruba), Load Balancers (F5, Citrix HA Proxy, Cloud) and traffic engineering.
· Working with ISPs for connectivity, links terminations, bandwidth optimization and performance. Configurating and managing QoS, Class of services, performance parameters and security policies across the underlay and overlay networks.
· Cloud Networking – Working knowledge of public cloud networking (AWS, Azure and GCP), creating virtual networks (VPCs, VNets), virtual machines, container networking, integrating multi cloud networking systems, Hybrid cloud integrating using IPSec VPN, direct connect /express routes, security groups and load balancing.
· Experiencing of working as L2/L3 network operation engineer, handling incident and service requests. Creating RCAs and capacity planning.
· Proficiency with network diagnostic tools and expertise to troubleshoot at L3/ SME level.
· Working experience of deploying monitoring tools (SolarWinds, ManageEngine, Nagios or Zabbix), integrating with ITSM solutions (i.e. ServiceNow)
· Good knowledge on setting up Network Security solutions, perimeter Firewall (Palo Alto, Check Point), DMZ, EDR solutions, Antivirus, PAM, SASE enabled SD-WAN
· Familiarity of cloud managed network services, cloud Meraki solutions.
· Having multi-vendor end-to-end implementation experience involving network setup and configuration
Good to have:
· Familiarity with tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef to automate network configurations and management.
· Understanding on network automation- Network digital twin, service catalogue, AI/ML enabled solutions, CI/CD
· Skills in writing network automation scripts using languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
· 3rd party API integration, configuration, and monitoring
· Understanding of 5G networks, IoT networking concepts, connectivity protocols and security
· Network slicing for 5G networks.