Azure Network Engineer - Senior Consultant- Hyderabad

AI and Engineering

The AI and Engineering portfolio is an integrated set of offerings that addresses our clients’ heart-of-the-business issues. This portfolio combines our functional and technical capabilities to help clients transform, modernize, and run their existing technology platforms across industries. As our clients navigate dynamic and disruptive markets, these solutions are designed to help them drive product and service innovation, improve financial performance, accelerate speed to market, and operate their platforms to innovate continuously.

ROLE

Level: Senior Consultant/Specialist Senior

As a Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, you will be responsible for review, modify and lead the team to build and operate highly scalable client environments on cloud or Hybrid cloud or on premises within HCMS framework.

The work you will do includes:

• Lead and drive discussions with business and functional analysts to understand the business requirements and the impact of integration on the overall business architecture
• Run the daily calls / meetings with respect to deliverables and build the weekly status reports to be reviewed with leadership/client

• Architect and deploy Azure networking components (Virtual Networks, Subnets, Network Security Groups, VPN Gateways, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Load Balancers, Application Gateways).
• Implement hybrid connectivity solutions between on-premises and Azure environments.
• Optimize network performance and reliability for cloud workloads.
• Configure network security controls, including firewalls, security groups, and access controls.
• Ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements for cloud networking.
• Recommendation on network vulnerabilities in configurations.
• Network health and performance using Azure tools (Network Watcher, Monitor, Log Analytics).
• Lead Troubleshoot connectivity issues, latency, and outages.
• Maintain documentation for network architectures and operational procedures.
• Work closely with cloud architects, DevOps, and security teams to support project delivery.
• Provide guidance and support to application teams on cloud networking best practices.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for network-related issues.

• Working experience with ISPs to troubleshoot issues like link down, slowness, link flapping and turning up new circuits.
• Perform detailed reviews on deliverables and provide technical guidance to the team members

Skills / Project Experience:

Must Have:

• Deep understanding of Azure Virtual Networks, Subnets, Network Security Groups, VPN Gateways, ExpressRoute, Load Balancers, Application Gateways, and Azure Firewall.
• Ability to design, implement, and troubleshoot these components
• Experience with TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, routing, and switching.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (ARM Templates, Terraform, Bicep).
• Proficiency in PowerShell or Azure CLI for automation.
• Solid grasp of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, NAT, and VPN technologies.
• Ability to apply traditional networking concepts in cloud environments
• Experience integrating on-premises networks with Azure using VPN and ExpressRoute.
• Knowledge of hybrid architectures and secure connectivity patterns
• Experience in Network administration, troubleshooting, implementation, (add-on – planning, designing and architecture)
• Must know the difference between Core, Distribution, Access and edge network layer
• Experience in performing IOS upgrades, L3/L2 VLAN configuration, complete configurations of switch and router from scratch, working with on-site engineer to take console of any network device. Minimum knowledge about MPLS configuration
• Hands-on experience with ticketing tools, specifically Service-Now.
• Knowledge about ITIL/ITSM processes like Incident, problem, change, task management.
• Working advance knowledge about Routing protocols like OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and most of the LAN protocols.
• Experience in any of the WAN technologies like MPLS, DMVPN, GRE IPSec Tunnels, SD-WAN
• Working experience with protocols like NTP, SNMP, Syslog, 802.11, 802.1x, AAA, ACL, NAT, TACACS, RADIUS, Port Security, Port mirroring
• Exposure to Enterprise composite network models like Datacenters architecture, branch or remote office architecture.
• Troubleshooting experience on network performance like QoS, Bandwidth policing, Traffic shaping, Latency, Jitter, bandwidth utilizations
• Hands-on experience in managing monitoring tool, NetFlow /bandwidth analyzation tools, (add-on – Cisco Prime Infra, Nagios, Ops Managaer(NetFlow, CMDB, backup management), SolarWinds Orion)
• Hands-on experience in managing and administering DHCP and DNS services (either on Windows or Infoblox), SFTP/TFTP.
• Added experience with tools like Wireshark, Debugging, EEM, Python, Automation, Cisco ACI, SD-WAN (Viptela, Velocloud, or any), SASE technologies.
• Any technical training completed like CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, Cisco Wireless
• Ability to perform estimation of work products and cost analysis
• Knowledge and experience working with Microsoft Office tools
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like ARM Templates, Terraform, or Bicep.

Good to Have:

Palo alto , F5, Cisco ISE