Subject Matter Expert

**India***
- Work closely with key customers alongside of regional business development teams to develop, validate and as needed, help to execute complex solution designs, deployment/integration/migration scenarios.
- Work closely with other Post-Sales engineers and product management team to develop common set of IP & Cloud solutions in agile software development based upon diversified suites of requirements and use cases from carriers, cloud service providers and large enterprises.
- Deploy & commission IP & SDN networks in large service providers and enterprise networks
- Execute Migration strategy & MoP’s for brownfield deployments
- Closely co-ordinate with Design team and Technical team to design/resolve the day to day network/hardware issues
- Assist in troubleshooting of complex technical issues
- Replicate customer environment covering critical network elements (in a Virtual, Simulator, or physical lab) aiding in expediting problem analysis and communication with customer operational experts.
- Develop and publish solutions white papers, best practices, learnings, and test/document solutions.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Must be able to work independently on testing and integration of IP and cloud network infrastructure.
- Clear concept and strong technical domain knowledge in routing, switching & cloud.
- Good knowledge and hands-on experience of using IP/MPLS Protocols such as BGP, OSPF, ISIS, VRRP, LDP, RSVP-TE, Segment routing. Implementation Knowledge on L2 & L3 services using - VPLS / MP-BGP and EVPN / VxLAN
- Experience in troubleshooting Large L2 and L3 based VPNs
- Internetworking troubleshooting experience. Good analytical skills and ability to debug network issues.
- Strong experience of Linux Operating Systems, including Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian
- Exposure to virtualization and cloud technologies such as OpenStack, virtual networking, distributed programming, Linux containers, and SDN/NFV
- Good understanding of modern Intel platform architecture and platform advancements in CPU micro-architecture, cache and memory, IO and virtualization, etc.
- Interprets internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes and services.
- Solves complex problems based on sophisticated analytical thought and complex judgment.
- Provides expertise and delivers advanced system troubleshooting methods like system level tracing, debug, protocol flow analysis.
- Identifies, reproduces, and characterizes defects and collaborates promptly with Product support teams for fixes.
- Leads and resolves complex situations derived from technical activities such as software upgrade, audit, equipment swap, network expansion, multi vendor issues, acceptance testing, feature testing, tailored technical support, end-to-end performance improvement, etc.
- Interacts with customer for complex cases, providing workarounds, etc.
- Leads the Root Causes Analysis (RCA) analysis and report creation.
- Complies with the requirements as per the emergency process role and ensures quick recovery for issues categorised as critical outages and code red.
- Leads and supports technical activities in early product phases (releases, pilots, trials and early projects).
- Promotes, creates and approves knowledge articles (author, reviewer, approver, coach).
- Provides customer and internal technical training or consultancy.
- Performs system level product competence training and knowledge transfer across teams.
- Reviews technical documentation and specifies features for supportability and maintainability. 15. Works in customer and 3rd party interface (communications, partnering).

**REQUIRED SKILLS**:

- 8 to 12 years of experience in IP data networking.
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or a relevant technical degree
- 5 or more years’ experience in a role requiring understanding, designing and Implementing IP Routing technologies and networking protocols
- 3 or more years’ experience in designing & implementing Linux Servers / Virtualized Networks in a decent sized Datacenter
- Industry leading certifications like SRA, CCIE, JNCIE, ASRA, RH Openstack would be a plus
- Experience in network design, integration & migration of large networks in premier Operator/ Vendor organisations.
- Strong IP network troubleshooting skills

**ABOUT US**:
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