Lead System Engineer - SDWAN

Responsibilities

Relevant experience: 10-15 years

• Primary Skills – Expert in on Datacenter Network   with product experience on Cisco ACI,
• Able to help with Deploy and Troubleshoot above technologies without any supervision .
• Experience in working on heterogeneous network with managing various technologies .
• Able to Train Junior members in the team                                                                          
• Proficient on DC deployment with VRF , MPLS , VXLAN, Cisco Nexus and routing Protocol .
• Expert on BGP and OSPF Routing protocols                                                      
• Troubleshooting skills on Production issues using Various tools – Splunk , Netflow , Debugging of network logs
• Review Network standards and recommend new hardware standards on Datacenter networking
• Plan, design, and document ACI  architecture and deploy automated templates (with zero touch provisioning) to all locations.
• Configure security zones & VRF’s to control the traffic on ACI.
• Developing, implementing, and deploying ACI, NDO, NDI, Multipod and VXLAN
• Providing support and troubleshooting technical issues
• Creating and following ACI implementation plans
• participate in other next-gen technical project delivery 
• Work with cross functional team for solution development and training and knowledge sharing
• Acts a single point of Technical contact during Technical Escalation Management
• Practices to make devices & operations more efficient
• Perform hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, network designs, and network deployments using new products and feature.
• Overall responsibility of expert level for technical support (Incident, Problem, Critical Changes)
• Good to moderate knowledge on IP Networking CCNA /CCNP, Routing protocols (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP) and switching (VLAN, Trunking, Dot1x, various flavors of STP)
• Experience in planning and designing or operating service provider or large enterprise WAN/LAN networks.
• Good communication skills
• Take the lead in outage calls
• Own and drive root cause and permanent resolution
• Perform moderate network changes
• CCNA /CCNP, Routing protocols (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP) and switching (VLAN, Trunking, Dot1x, various flavors of STP)
• Experience in planning and designing or operating service provider or large enterprise WAN/LAN networks.
• Review network design and provide recommendation on Low Level Designs and configuration standards
• Able to debug production issues                                                                                            
• Scripting knowledge using Python or Ansible                                                   
• Able to lead production issues and manage issues with large senior stakeholders      
  
  

  Day to day work:

  • Review the existing process and update it for being more autonomous.
  • Propose new process and create new documentations.
  • Define improvement plan: how to decrease number of alarm and escalations.
  • Deal with Paris NRE TEAM to have approval or be autonomous on the resolution of the incident / alarms.
  • Give an improvement plan for reducing number of tickets escalated to Paris team.

Profile required

Abilities / Skills Required

• Strong stakeholder engagement / Client Relationship Management
• Very good attitude, good listener and adapter
• Motivated and proactive and ready to take more challenges
• Lead incident as final point of escalation