Data Center Network Architect

The ideal candidate will have 10-15 years of experience with a Financial Services Firm, Technology vendor or systems integrator designing, and implementing large scale networks. Strong experience and hands-on candidate in Data Center Networking (Routing and Switching), SD WAN is mandatory with Cisco certification- CCIE.

Roles and Responsibilities: The engineer will be responsible for evaluating, engineering, designing, and troubleshooting enterprise scale Data Centre networks.

• The candidate will be responsible for

• Authoring of design documents, engineering standards and creating best practice technical architecture models utilizing knowledge of industry and technical trends

• Mentoring and knowledge transfer to team members across the organization.

• Participating in the weekly design meetings

• Engaging with project managers to develop the execution and test plans for network changes.

• Serve as an escalation for the operating teams during network outages.

• Ability to work both independently and as a team member is essential.

• Strong presentation skills are imperative to be able to explain network design, articu-late risk, and facilitate decision making.

• Strong security focus and experience with Network Security Concepts and Multi-tier Security architectures

- Senior in Network design engineering. More than 12-15+ years' experience

- Certifications: CCIE or equivalent

-Ethernet technologies: SPT, 802.1Q, VPC, Multilayer Switching; Leaf-Spine IP Fabric

- IP Routing: RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPBGP, TCP/IP

- Multicast routing: PIM, IGMP, MSDP. VxLAN

- Platform knowledge on Cisco Switching & Routing Platforms

-Nexus 9000 Series Data Centre Switching Platform

- ASR 1000x Series Routers -ASR 9000 Series Routers

- Platform Knowledge on Arista Switching platforms

- Working knowledge on various Network Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, NXOS, IOS-XR, Arista EOS