Network Consulting Engineer- L3

JD for the role of - Network Consulting Engineer/Service Provider/Test Engineer with our direct client.
Job Title: Senior Network Engineer
Experience: Minimum of 6-8 years of professional experience in Networking domain (Service Provider and Service Provider)
Job Type: Fixed Term Contract
Industry: Network Automation
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced network engineer with 8-10 years of industry (Service Provider) experience to join our team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in Networking projects (planning, integration, and migration), and understand the networking use cases (requirements) and play a bridge between the network and software teams to automate the use cases/deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• This role desires deep understanding of the networking projects which includes "planning, deployment, migration and operations" the way being handled manually, gather the low level requirements, closely work with software team to automate the use cases / deliverables.
• Automation approach for bringing in delivery efficiency in the projects
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand the requirements, share with software team, and test the use cases in pre-prod environment before they go live in production.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical solutions to peers/customers including writing technical documents such as "Solution Requirements, Solution design and UAT documents"
• Play the role of an individual contributor.
• Takes ownership of task/project implementation for assigned engagements. Receives limited supervision. Receives little instruction on routine work and new assignments.
• Establish and maintain a Good working relationship with the project partners and the customers
• Work in an agile environment and participate in sprint planning, team meetings.
• Keep up to date with the latest trends and best practices in web and network automation development.

Skills & Qualifications

• 6-8 years of hands-on experience in Networking domain (Service Provider and Routing, Switching)
• Must have hands-on experience on preparing the MOP/NIP's for Network migration, software upgrade, complaince and provisioning, and executing them in the production network
• Must have hands on experience on Service Provider / Routing and Switching projects (Planning/Integration/Migration/Operations) :
• Static Routing, IGP (ISIS, OSPF)
• BGP (iBGP, eBGP, mBGP),
• MPLS (L2VPN and L3VPN), LDP, QoS, Multicast Routing
• SR-TE, SR-PCE
• BFD, CEF, RLFA
• IPv6 (Addressing, understanding of Pv6 ISIS, OSPFv3).
• Layer 2 Technologies: VLAN, VTP, STP (CSTP,PVSTP, RSTP, MSTP)
• IP Services: FHRP (HSRP, VRRP), DHCP, IP SLA,NTP, PTP, Synchronization, SNMP, Syslog.
• Security: Basic AAA Services, Port security, DHCP Security, Zone-Based Firewall
• Must have hands on experience on various Cisco platforms such "XE, XR, Nexus" and third party "Huawei and Nokia" devices. Experience on Cisco ACI/FX/ASA platforms is a plus.
• Must have experience on some of the below Cisco Devices:
• Switches - Cat 9200,9300,9400,9500,
• Nexus - N9K/7K/5K/3K/2K
• Routers - ASR901/920/903, ASR1K/9K, ISR4K, ISRG2, NCS540/560/5K, ASR9K
• Experience/Knowledge on multi-vendor environment of R&S, Service Provider, Security,

Firewalls and DC/Nexus technologies.

• Proactive and positive attitude in identifying the gaps and come up with automation solutions
• Strong problem-solving and Analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong Knowledge of MS project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications (Good To Have)

• Knowledge on network automation and orchestration tools like Cisco NSO, SD-WAN, ACI controller is a plus
• Knowledge on Python / scripting languages for network device management and automation is a plus
• Knowledge on software development life cycle is plus