Gigamon Engineer

Gigamon Engineer

Role overview

A Gigamon Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, and operating Gigamon

visibility/packet broker platforms that provide traffic to security, monitoring, and

performance tools in enterprise or service provider networks. The role often includes

acting as a subject matter expert to optimize traffic flows, filters, and policies for security

and NOC teams.

Key responsibilities

 Design and implement Gigamon visibility solutions, including GigaVUE nodes,

cluster design, and integration with core, data center, and cloud networks.

 Configure and manage flow maps, filters, load balancing, deduplication, header

stripping, and SSL/TLS decryption as required by security and monitoring tools.

 Integrate Gigamon with IDS/IPS, firewalls, SIEM, APM/NPM, and other analytics

platforms, ensuring the right traffic reaches the right tools without

oversubscription.

 Monitor platform health, capacity, and performance; plan upgrades, patches, and

expansions in coordination with network and security teams.

 Troubleshoot packetlevel issues, visibility gaps, and tool performance problems

using SPAN/TAPs, Gigamon nodes, and protocol analyzers like Wireshark.

 Create and maintain design documents, runbooks, and standard operating

procedures for Gigamon operations.

 Provide knowledge transfer, training, and advisory support to customer or internal

teams on best practices for traffic visibility and usecase design.

Required skills and experience

 Strong background in enterprise or data center networking (routing, switching,

VLANs, trunks, SPAN, TAPs, L2/L3 protocols).

 Handson experience with Gigamon visibility appliances (e.g., GigaVUE series)

including clustering, management (H/Vision), and advanced traffic policies.

 Familiarity with security and monitoring tools (IDS/IPS, firewalls, WAF, DLP,

NPM/APM, SIEM) and how they consume mirrored traffic.