Network Engineering Lead

Job Requirements

Job Requirements

Role/ Job Title: Network Engineering Lead

Function/ Department: Information Technology.

Job Purpose:

The primary responsibility will be managing the 24x7 DC/DR/NDR network, Pan India, Network Support & Operations. You will work closely with the teams from Network Projects, EUS leads, NOC and other cross-functional teams who are managing systems and applications, to drive efficiency and improvements in supporting/managing the business.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Should analyse, design, implement and maintain the networks F5 and Citrix Net

Scaler Load Balancer infrastructure.

• Should inspect data packets and TCP, IP flow in network and application flow.

• should possess a working knowledge of switches, routers, and firewall concepts.

• Should be able to configure and maintain F5 and Citrix Load Balancers, load balancing best practices.

• Should also take the responsibility to upgrade network operating systems software and hardware as per the management requirements.

• Must ensure that the plans are integrated effectively with the other aspects of the technical infrastructure.

• Extensive knowledge of Load balancing technology including algorithms and health check options.

• Knowledge and experience regarding F5 BIG-IP LTM VIP configuration with health check.

• Knowledge and experience with F5 BIG-IP GTM Wide IP configuration.

• F5 BIG-IP i

Rule programming and troubleshooting experience.

• Extensive knowledge of Citrix Net

Scaler VIP configuration with health check.

• Knowledge and experience with Citrix Net

Scaler Global Load Balancing (Gslb) configuration.

• Candidate Must have extensive experience working in structured change management, Problem and Incident processes.

• Candidate Must have production environment experience consisting of Global load balancing, Local load balancing, SSL acceleration, HTTP compression / caching, and DNS.

• Candidate Must have strong Networking Experience - TCP / IP, Administration of networking hardware.

• Candidate Must have design and maintenance experience with complex Web hosting network architectures.

• Experience directly managing routers, switches, load balancers and SSL accelerators in a high-availability infrastructure is required.

• Expert understanding of TCP as it pertains to packet inspection and network / application flows.

• Expert ability to troubleshoot issues and make recommendations for system changes, as needed, to resolve issues.

• must have integration / configuration / administration experience and possess a solid Network background including an understanding of switch, network routing, and firewall concepts.

• The Load Balancing Engineer must possess very strong troubleshooting skills as well as a strong TCP understanding as it pertains to packet inspection and TCP flow in the Network and Application flows.

• The Load Balancing Engineer must have a very good understanding of DNS functionality and concepts as it relates to IPv4 and IPv6.

• Deep understanding of network protocols (Routing / Switching)

• Design and implement Load balancing rules using industry best practices.

• Communicate network architecture designs clearly and effectively to technical and non-technical decision makers

• Perform security hardening of network systems.

• Develop or contribute to technical documentation including Low Level design documentation, Technical Implementation document, deployment/build plans, and test plans.

• Deploy designed solution within a testing environment to verify compliance with security and functional requirements.

Education Qualification:

Graduation:

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) / Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) / Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)

Post-Graduation: Master of Science (M.Sc) /Master of Technology (M.Tech) / Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Experience: 10-18 years.