Network Design Engineer

KEY JOB REQUIREMENTS: In this role, you will be successful, if you have:

Experience:

Candidates must have had experience working in Telco/carrier in mobile/security/infrastructure environments.

• Elicit business and technical requirements working with various partners during requirements collection phase.
• Author High Level and Low Level Design Documents to support Enterprise and Mobile Services
• Own software/hardware selection perform bug scrubs and security vulnerability assessments and work with Test and Delivery engineers to review test plans, defects, test reports, MOP and change tickets.
• Participate in vendor selection by providing technical requirements into RFP document and by doing technical evaluation including Proof of Concept testing.
• Steer network security elements feature roadmap by working closely with our strategic technology partners for software release planning, budget submissions and provide inputs for case preparation.
• Drive platform improvements enable automation and implement new solutions that enable DevOps capabilities and support business strategy of building once and deploy multiple time.

Skills & Competencies:

Must Have:

• Fortinet NSE4 certification and strong hands-on experience of FortiGate firewalls, FortiAnalyser and fortimanager
• Solid grasp of firewall architecture.
• Demonstrable experience in crafting and owning both High Level Design and Low Level Design documentation.
• Good understanding of configuring firewall policies, address objects, NAT, Interfaces, Zones, Dynamic Routing (BGP), logging.
• Good understanding of routing and switching especially of Nokia SROS devices (e.g. 7750) would be advantageous, else Cisco (CCNA/CCNP); MPLS

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Palo Alto firewalls, F5 LTM/GTM (or other load balancing) and Mobile 5G technologies
• Ability to apply Open-config and Vendor specific NETCONF-YANG models, JSON and XML payload for network automation to configure and manage firewalls
• Knowledge of Python and GIT to manage configuration templates and develop Automation solutions