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,…)
