About the job Network SME Role** Network SME 2 Required Technical Skill Set** Cisco Nexus 5k/7k,F5,VPN,F5 Load balancer, Juniper Switches, Ansbile automation Desired Competencies (Technical Competency) Must-Have** (Ideally should not be more than 8-12) - Experience in Network Support with Good Knowledge and troubleshooting experience on Routing, Switching.- Must have worked or managed enterprise grade datacenter networks - Experience in working with Nexus5K, Nexus 7K/9K, Nexus 2K,routers,Juniper Switches - Experience in Test, Implement, and Support Advanced Layer-2/3 Switching Solutions.- Experience in Cisco or Juniper Routing and Switching, Cisco, Cisco ISE, Cisco Meraki, F5 Load balancer - Good Knowledge and experience in working of VRFs, VDCs, AAA, SNMP, - Monitoring tools, (DHCP/DNS/IPAM).- Experience in management of F5 devices- GTM,LTM,WAF, VPN, Firewalls - Experience in upgrade of F5 devices- GTM,LTM,WAF, VPN, Firewalls - Experience of Infoblox DNS & upgrades - Experience with Juniper switches ,Core MX routers - Experience in using Ansible Automation for various activities across Network devices,F5(LTM,GTM,WAF,VPN) upgrades using Ansible - Experience of SDN, Cisco ACI - Experience in checkpoint, FortiGate or another firewall, Cisco Prime.- Experience in configuration and troubleshooting knowledge in Layer2 protocols, such as: VLAN, Private VLANS, VTP, STP, DTP, Trunking, Stacking.High Availability Protocols (HSRP, VRRP, GLBP), EtherChannel, DOT1Q, ISL, SVI.- Experience in configuring/troubleshooting of Layer3 Protocols such as: BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, Static Routing, Floating Static Routing, Failover.Good-to-Have - Good to have knowledge with network management tools such as configuration management, network health check tools, log collectors.- Good to have knowledge in monitoring network with tools like (Cacti, netcool, Nagios, PRTG, NetFlow, etc.)- Good to have knowledge of using Spectrum/ E-Health/ Cisco-Prime/ NCM/ IPAM - Should have knowledge of Infovista tool.- Good to understand Internet Lease Lines, SDWAN, MPLS SN Responsibility of / Expectations from the Role 1 Designs and configures network implementations/Upgrades 2 Participates as a Subject Matter Expert in architectural design reviews 3 Support for LAN/WAN networking technologies, including F5 LB support.4 Perform analysis of various Projects and effort estimations 5 Perform upgrade, implementation across multiple Network devices – manual, Using Ansible automation 6 Develop configuration management capabilities and documentation practices