Key Responsibilities

• Lead ,deliver , implement and maintain end-to-end network, and security infrastructure solutions utilizing new technologies, including on prem and cloud solutions
• Design and maintain security posture and resilient network , through out the entire network and security landscape.
• Recommend and Drive recommended changes as needed in response to technology trends , business needs or audits
• Undertake projects workload and while ensuring necessary deliverables are achieved within agreed project time and cost constrains , ensuring closure and design documentations availability and accuracy.
• Carry out routine maintenance , failover tests , and drills to continuously monitor the network against established thresholds and BCP benchmarks.
• Perform proactive incident response and closure within SLAs and maintaining RCAs and KBs.
• Assist with development and management of the Network and security budgets.
• Align with IT risk management initiatives and Internal/External corporate audit

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of experience in networking and security fields
• CCNP Enterprise
• CCNP Security or FCP or PCNSA
• Thorough understanding and experience in network LAN solutions and technologies, including but not limited to campus switching, complex multi routing, WAN, SD-WAN, PBR, non-blocking datacenter technologies.
• Advanced understanding on wireless technologies, including wireless profiles, RF, manipulation in 5 GHZ. ad 2.4 frequencies
• Thorough understanding and experience on designing, manipulation and, troubleshooting, all routing protocols and technologies including, BGP, OSPF , EIGRP , RIP , IS-IS , MPLS, and re-distribution (Expert-Advanced)
• Expert on designing and troubleshooting advanced switching protocols, including but not limited spanning tree, port-channels, VPC, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP (Expert-Advanced)
• Through understanding and experience on security solutions, including, IPS/IDS and firewalls
• Knowledge and hands on experience in Multi-Pod cisco ACI environment is an advantage
• Experience with cisco Intent based networking (Cisco DNA) and Meraki platforms
• Advanced knowledge and experience on Cloud, Datacenter networking, computing, and security (Expert-Advanced)
• Advanced knowledge and experience on L2/L3 Multicast and streaming protocols (PIM, IGMP , RP)
• Experience on IP-Telephony solutions
• Experience on multiple monitoring and reporting platforms including (Riverbed , ManageEngine SolarWinds , PRTG , ZABIX )
• Working Experience with ITIL frameworks.

Hands on experience on platforms including but not limited to

• Cisco Catalyst and Nexus (ACI and NX-OS modes) (Mandatory)
• Aruba, Cisco, and Ruckus enterprise wireless systems (Mandatory)
• WAF and ADC solutions (Citrix, F5, Sophos, and Azure GW) (Desirable)
• Fortinet, Palo-Alto, FTD, Juniper, and Sophos Next-Gen Firewalls (Mandatory)
• Cisco and FortiGate SD-WAN solutions and platforms (Mandatory)
• Cisco ISR routers (Mandatory)
• Cisco and Ribbon enterprise telephony systems and voice gateways (Desirable)
• Aruba ClearPass , Cisco ISE, and NetScout , 802.1X NAC and AAA solutions (Mandatory)