Lead Engineer- IT Infrastructure is responsible for the development and ongoing maintenance / support of Provide technical expertise and architectural solutions in infrastructure, hardware, hosting service and network areas.

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership, technical consultation, and operational support for enterprise-wide IT network infrastructure.

• Perform current state network assessments and develop architectures based on industry best practices and the latest advanced network technologies

• Utilize effective project management skills to lead strategic infrastructure projects while working with the business to ensure on-time and on-budget project delivery

• Identify, analyse, and resolve complex networking issues utilizing advanced technical experience.

• Take accountability for enterprise-wide network team task and project deliverables

• Provide technical training to peers and maintain network documentation

• Demonstrate effective vendor management

• Designs and installs internal and external networks to ensure smooth and reliable operation for fulfilling business objectives and processes

• Monitoring and testing to provide network performance statistics and reports

• Provides networking troubleshooting responsibilities.

• Long-term capacity planning, baselines, policies, and procedures.

• Proposals, whitepapers, presentations, and technical documentation.

• design and configuration documents.

• Technical presentations, procedures, and process documentation.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Have acquired relevant industry certifications in the computer and network technical fields (e.g., Microsoft, Cisco, Comp TIA)

• Knowledge of Cisco hardware, Nexus, Catalyst and WLAN.

• Knowledge of network routing: BGP, EIGRP, OSPF (VXLAN a plus)

• Knowledge on software defined networking, SD-Access, SDLAN, DNAC, ISE etc.

• Working knowledge of Unix, Linux, and Microsoft Operating Systems

• 6+ years’ experience in Network Engineering role, and specifically in Network Automation Orchestration

• Intermediate to Expert Level Skills in MPLS / DC Network / WAN / Routing / Network Design / Firewalls / VPN Technologies IPSec / S2S / SSL / Wi-Fi APs and Controllers.

• Experienced in Network Protocol testing - VLAN, RSTP, IGMP, IEEE802.1X, SNMP, NTP, Static/Dynamic routing, QoS etc.

• Understanding and Experience on LAN / WAN / WLAN / BGP / MPLS / OSPF / EIGRP / VPN troubleshooting Skills.

• Plan, Design, and Implement Classified and Unclassified communication networks.

• Network documentation and testing.

Required Experience & Certifications:

• 8+ years’ experience in a production IT environment managing enterprise IT infrastructure, hardware, hosting service and network areas.

• Ability to write architectural design documents or review design documents provided by others.

• Knowledge and understanding of industry trends and new technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural needs.

• CCNA & CCNP Certifications and Hands on experience on Switching & Routing.

• CISCO Firewall (FTD). Checkpoint, and FortiGate firewall Hands on experience.

• Good Knowledge in the Cisco Products link CISCO ASA, Palo alto, Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Identity Service Engine, WLC, Nexus etc.