Staff Network Operations Engineer

Management Level

Company Overview :

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.  
EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide.

Capitalising on India's strong reputation as a global talent hub for IT / ITES, EQ India has structured the organisation to be a part of this growth story. Today, EQ India has evolved as an indispensable part of EQ Group providing critical fintech services to the US and UK.

EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role overview
Role involves a mixture of implementation/installation and operational support for the network estate and Data Centres, working with multi-vendor technologies, including switches (IOS and NX-OS, Junos), routers (ASRs and ISRs) and firewalls (ASA-X, Juniper and Checkpoint UTM SPLAT).

This role requires oncall duty between 5 to 7 weeks a year.

Key Skills

•    Candidate must demonstrate experience with Public Cloud networking – AWS and Azure
o    Cloud Connectivity
o    Cloud firewall
o    Market place
o    3rd party SDx modules

•    Candidate must demonstrate experience with network automation
o    Terraform
o    Ansible

•    Experience with Cisco Technologies (Routing, switching, VPN)
o    Cisco Routers
o    Cisco Firewall Security
o    Cisco Switches
o    Virtual Private Network (VPN)  - site to site and remote-access VPN's
o    Wireless Network

•    Good understanding of different WAN technologies – traditional MPLS-like and  SD-WAN

•    Experience with Juniper Technologies:
o    Firewalls
o    Routers
o    Switches
o    Wireless Network

•    Experience with Fortinet Technologies:
o    Firewalls
o    Routers
o    Switches
o    Wireless Network

•    Candidate must demonstrate Infrastructure as code – Automation in the network stack

•    Experience with load-balancing technologies:    
o    F5
o    KEMP

•    Experience with DNS platforms

•    Can-do attitude and willingness to learn new technologies
Desirable 

•    Minimum 10 years of experience in Network field

•    working, demonstrated hands-on product and technology skills in several above-mentioned areas

•    strong practical knowledge of Security platforms and technologies, and strong practical knowledge of troubleshooting Routing and Switching protocols BGP, EIGRP, OSPF and STP

•    HSRP, TCP/IP, IPSEC protocols

•    strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills

•    strong written and verbal communication skills
Certifications

•    CCNP certification

•    ITIL v3 certified – Foundation or Advanced

•    Graduate Degree B.Sc. or equivalent

•    F5 Certified – nice to have

Benefits:
Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

•    3 days of additional leaves on & above statutory requirement along with 2 days of voluntary leaves to pursue the CSR initiatives  

•    Business related certification expense reimbursement

•    Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents

•    Cab transport for staff working in UK & US shift

•    Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned CTC

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.