Network Architect - SD-WAN

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Required Skill: Any Combination of SDWAN - MERAKI, VIPTELA, SILVERPEAK, FORTINET

Years of Experience - 14 - 24 yrs

Job Description:

Candidate with foundation of deep technical hands on expertise in network technologies. He/She should possess a high-level knowledge across compute, storage, and security disciplines supplemented with automation experience to have a “big picture” vision. Minimum 14 years + of Operations and transformations experience.

Although it’s a transformational role but Candidate should attain Operational knowledge to provide the support for escalation of network incidents during critical network emergencies.

Required Skills:

· Must have ‘CCIE Routing and Switching’, CCIE Enterprise, Cisco Devnet certification or, VMWare NSX, Versa, Fortinet certified is preferred.

· Expertise in one or more OEM product lines in enterprise areas:

o SDWAN – Cisco Viptela, Meraki, FortiGate, Silver peak, Velo cloud, Versa, Azure vWAN, AWS Cloud WAN

o SSE: Zscaler, Palo Alto, Cisco Umbrella, Fortinet.

o Cloud Interconnects – Mega port, Equinix or Aviatrix

o Software defined access/Traditional LAN – Cisco, FortiGate, HPE

· Possess programming competence, with technical skills in some variant of each of the following:

o Automation Frameworks (Ansible, Postman, Terraform)

o Coding: Python, JSON, YAML

· Recent experience leading a project delivering some aspect of segmentation on a large-scale environment spanning, wide area networks, SASE and Cloud Connectivity.

· Have a minimum of 14 years’ experience designing, developing, configuring, and implementing large scale global enterprise networks with diverse solutions from multiple vendors.

· Demonstrated experience leading a project delivering some aspect of network services automation

· Experience to prepare Bill of Material, Migration approach, ramp up plan and effort estimation (transformation and transition) based on the inputs received as part of RFPs.

· Have excellent communication skills with a proven track record of presenting at the most senior levels within the enterprise and the network industry.