· Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Information Technology/Information Systems/Computer Science, Business IT, or its equivalent
· Minimum 7 years of relevant working experience, with the last 3 years in large-scale network architecture design, deployment, and implementation. At least 5 years of experience in Network Operations Support, Administration, and implementation.
· Must have in-depth and hands-on technical experience in routing and switching, and firewalls.
· Good knowledge of the following, but not limited to:
o Firewall technologies – Cisco ASA, Fortigate, Palo Alto (high availability, virtual firewall concept)
o IP load balancer
o Access, Distribution, and Core Switches
o Router configuration (high availability)
o LAN and WAN administration
o Wireless Controllers and Access Points
o Network Access Control Devices (ie. ClearPass Policy Manager or Cisco ISE)
· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, combined with the ability to provide a quick resolution to problems
· Good exposure to network monitoring, configuration, traffic analysis, network discovery, and management tools.
· Hands-on experience with routing protocols and control plane technologies like BGP, OSPF, OMS, LISP, IP SLA, PBR, OTV, ACI
· Experienced in leading customer facing consulting, assessment, and transformation projects.
· Sound experience in SDN, Routing, Switching, and Wireless LAN (Cisco WLC and Meraki), Access Point, cisco Prime, NAC, and Cisco ISE-based wireless network deployments.
· Strong experience in design, architecture, configurations, and administration of Cisco ACI, SDWAN, SDA and traditional enterprise Networks.
· Understanding wireless technologies like standalone and controller-based APs, 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11i, 802.11ac and ax(wi-fi 6) standards, WLAN antennas, WLAN Security (“WEP”, WPA & WPA2 / AES, 802.1x, EAP, PEAP, LEAP, TKIP), BYOD, etc.
· Able to guide the team in resolving network performance, capacity, downtime, and other P1-related issues.
· Strong experience with troubleshooting complex network issues and good hands-on well know tools like packet analyzers.
· Knowledge of network documentation including network diagrams, configuration templates, SOP, technical presentations, capacity, and uptime reports as required.
· Develop technical training materials and conduct training programs and educate engineers on basic technical details.
· Knowledge of Cloud technologies below will be an advantage:
o Experience in network automation via scripting (e.g. Python, Ruby) or tools (e.g. Ansible, Algosec, Chef, Salt, Chef, YAML). Familiarisation with “Network as code” or “infrastructure