Academic and Professional Qualifications Required:

• Cisco certified - CCIE ideally
• Excellent presentation skills, both written and oral
• Good interpersonal skills and team player
• ITIL Foundation desirable

Skills set and Core Competencies Required for Role

• Expert knowledge of Firewall technologies (ASA, Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Fortinet,…) with a minimum of 5 years' experience.
• Strong understanding and experience with some of the following automation / orchestration / devops technologies: regular expressions, Python scripting, Ansible, netconf, json, YAML, git, docker, kubernites, Splunk, elastic search, containers, microservices.
• Expert knowledge of Routing and Switching (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, multicast)
• Expert knowledge of Cisco Data Center switches (Nexus 9000, 7000, 5000, 3000 and 2000 FEXs)
• Expert knowledge of data packet capture analysis (wireshark, Riverbed, Corvil, …)
• Knowledge of Load Balancers ( A10 LTM, F5 GTM)
• Knowledge of Arista Data Center switches
• Knowledge of Cisco Wireless solutions
• Network Virtualization (VRFs, contexts, VDCs, etc.)
• Network Security with VPNs, ACLs, etc
• Strong understanding of network enterprise monitoring solutions and associated operational support processes, ideally solarwinds
• Strong understanding or Linux; Software Define Networks
• Understanding of Cloud networking (AWS, Azure,…)