Cloud IAC SME

Cloud IAC SME

Location: 100% Remote

Type: 6+ month contract

Responsibilities

Overall 10+ years' experience in network & security domain

5+ years in Cloud network setup, Hybrid network connectivity, Cloud security products

Good hands-on experience in Cloud native services in Azure and AWS e.g. Azure VWAN, AWS transit gateway, NAT gateway, AWS network manager, Security group

Deployment of SDWAN solution, integrating with Cloud setup. Migration of MPLS to SDWAN setup for Hybrid cloud connectivity- Products Cisco Miraki, Cisco SDWAN, Fortinet SDWAN

Minimum 3 + years of experience with IaC, automation & DevOps tools (Terraform, ansible)

Good hands-on experience in Cloud native services in security area

Coordinates closely with internal sales, sales support, and service resources to align solution design with customers' business requirements

Understand customer requirements for Network Infrastructure solutions, for example wireless networks and explain how Cisco Meraki will integrate with current infrastructure, as well as service future needs

Micro segmentation of a flat network etc.

Act as a subject matter expert in the design of Cloud networking components and deployment

Create product documentation for customers and perform competitive analysis regarding competing products

Ability to work cooperatively with cross-functional teams including sales, marketing, operations, finance, management, and partners

Extensive experience in Layer 2 & Layer 3 technologies

Experience deployment and configuration of virtual appliance from multiple OEMs like, Fortinet, PaloAlto, Juniper, F5, Cisco Advanced Services etc

Additional network Implementation experience with enterprise solutions such as

LAN Technologies: Ethernet – fast Ethernet, gigabit and 10 gigabit Ethernet, Port – Channel, VLAN, VTP, Inter-VLAN routing, STP, RSTP, PVST, 802.1x

WAN Technologies: MPLS, Channel & Leased lines, T1/T3, SONET, PPP TCP/ IP: Subnetting, VLSM, NetBUI, IPX/SPX, IP.v4, VoIP

Routing Protocols: Static, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, MPLS, HDLC, PPP, X.25

Infrastructure Services: DHCP, DNS, SMTP, POP3, FTP, TFTP

Administration and troubleshooting: CDP, TELNET, SSH, ICMP, PING and TRACEROUTE, SNMP and SYSLOG, CISCO IOS software and configurations, Call Manager, Cisco Contact centre Network Analysis Tools: Packet Sniffer, Vitalnet, NetQoS, Net screen Manager(NSM), Wireshark, Netcool Monitoring and Infinistream Mgmt Console, What's-Up Gold, Netbrain, Solarwinds, Remote Access Server Nortel (1680) administration, Nagios, Splunk

Operating Systems: Windows server 2003, Windows server 2008, Windows server 2012, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10, Novell Netware, Red Hat Linux 7.x and Unix

CISCO and other vendor equipment: CISCO 1900 2900 Series routers and 2960, 4507, 6509 switches, ASA 5500X, Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K & 1K, Cisco routers Cisco GSR 12416 (7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series) & Cisco Catalyst switches (7600, 6500, 5500, 4900, 3750, 3500, 2900 series). PIX Firewall (506/515/525/535), ASA Firewall (5505/5510), Cisco ACE Load Balancers. Juniper M/MX, Juniper SRX/SSG, Juniper EX Series and MAG Series VPN Gateways. Cisco FWSM/PIX/ASDM, Nokia Checkpoint NG, Palo Alto network, ACE Module and F5 Load Balancers

Communication & Soft Skills

• Excellent communication verbal + documentation
• Should be able to lead the discussion & Effective stakeholder management.