Network Lead

Network Lead

Location: Lansing, MI Duration: 12 Months Skills: F5 Load Balancer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Highly technical role, providing architectural, design, and implementation consultancy support for our client Cisco network landscape.
• Working alongside network team to deliver projects in support of building new data centre WAN/LAN network projects.
• Act as the technical lead for major network deployments and migrations.
• Provide network design leadership (high and low level network designs), troubleshoot network design and architecture issues, design validation, analyze network and device configurations as well as providing deployment guidance.
• Be the subject matter expert with a strong knowledge, understanding, and hands on experience with IP MPLS, WAN, LAN, security network infrastructure and mentor to more Network Engineering staff.
• Translate customer business and technology requirements that can vary in detail, and produce high quality network solutions, at both high and low levels of detail.
• Build Design (HLD/LLDs), implementation at architecture level not just support/TAC/sales/management.
• Have experience to prepare detail design for complex DC networks.
• Responsible for support for the transition planning from the network roadmap, gathering information, liaising with senior and key internal and external stakeholders.
• Responsible for the production of required technical design and creation of low level design documentation for projects.
• Analyze and understand the customer's requirements and expectations and select appropriate technologies to design an innovative winning technical solution.
• Identify new potential business opportunities within the customer's organization.
• Working in banking industry or service provider or large enterprise environment.
• Maintain a focus on achieving positive business outcomes in line with the customer requirements.
• Ensure that each solution is both financially and practically viable.
• Take full responsibility for technical, service, and commercial aspects of a solution assuring suitability and effectiveness in achieving the desired outcome.

Skills Required:

• Should have 12+ years of experience. Out of this at least 2-3 years of experience in solution designing, LLD/HLD preparation for large enterprise network setups.
• Strong understanding of Nexus switches and data centre architecture.
• Cisco networking skills, ideally to CCIE level.
• Must have very good understanding of new age technologies like Cisco ACI, SDN (SD LAN, SD WAN, SD WIRELESS), SDA. Fair understanding on Cisco Meraki, Viptela, Velocloud etc.
• Expert knowledge and experience in Cisco ASR9k, Cisco IOS XR, OSPF, MPLS and BGP.
• In depth knowledge and proven application of routing (OSPF, ISIS, BGP, IP MPLS) in larger networks with high availability.
• Knowledge and understanding of the working and operation of MBGP, MPLS VPNs, L3 VPN's, VPLS, L2 tunnels over MPLS, Traffic Engineering, Inter AS VPN's, Carrier to Carrier MPLS.
• Experience in designing, implementing and monitoring secure networks.
• Designed and implemented WAN network architectures in enterprise or ISP/Telco industries.
• Experience with architectural frameworks, service oriented architecture and building architecture roadmaps.
• Security: Firewalls, VPNs, Authentication (TACACS, AAA, PKI), 802.1x, NAC (Cisco Client). Also should have excellent implementation and troubleshooting skills for Check point firewall & Symantec Proxy.
• Load Balancers: Must have hands on experience on Citrix Load balancer. Experience on F5, NetScaler would be an added advantage.

Certifications:

• CCNP
• CCIE