Software Consulting Engineer

Software Consulting Engineer

This role has been designed as Hybrid with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Aruba is an HPE Company, and a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. Helping some the largest companies in the world modernize their networks to meet the demands of a digital future, Aruba is redefining the Intelligent Edge - and creating new customer experiences across intelligent spaces and digital workspaces. Join us redefine what s next for you.

What you ll do:

Responsibilities:

• Looking for 2+ years of experience in supporting Aruba Products and Customers
• Provide pre and post sales Design and consulting services to Aruba-HPE teams, customers and partners for various technologies and solutions.
• Provide Complete services lifecycle for the customers including Plan, Design, Implementation, Migration and Optimization
• Plan: Creating customer requirement document and business outcome plan
• Design: Creating high level and low-level design documents based on customer requirements
• Implementation: Preparing the installation plan includes Network implementation plan and Network ready for use plan
• Migration: Preparing migration including Method of Procedure and migration validation checks
• Optimization: Working on continuous improvement of network operations, uptime and security conformance.
• Ability to multitask and work independently when required, with little supervision or direction
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, presentation and interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface to senior levels of the customer organization
• Formulate action plans (technical and operational) for analysing and resolving reported issues.
• Simulate customer designs in lab.
• Participate in solution development and publications for knowledge base.
• Work effectively in a team environment including Aruba and Customer colleagues; QA, engineers, and field organizations.
• Required to travel to customer sites for consulting, training purposes, business reviews.
• Provide Quarterly Customer Review meetings, providing technical status and recommendations
• Demonstrable experience identifying areas-of-opportunity for process improvement.

What you need to bring:

• Minimum of two (2) years experience with one or more of the following Aruba products;

IAPs/Controllers, Airwave, ClearPass, Central, Aruba switches, or also non-aruba security products like Cisco ISE is an added advantage.

• Knowledge of authentication protocols and servers required (802.1x, RADIUS).
• Complete understanding of authentication methods (EAP-PEAP, EAP-TLS, EAP-MSCHAPv2)
• Installation and configuring of Linux systems, shell scripting. Understanding of Docker containers is preferred.
• Good understanding of Database concepts (RDBMS), SQL, PostGRESQL.
• Knowledge on Certificates (X.509), SSL symmetric and asymmetric encryption.
• Skilled in network design and implementation (knowledge and hands on preferred).
• Working knowledge of AD-domains, Forests, 2-way transitive trust.

Preferred Qualifications (in detail) :

• Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering is preferred.
• Technical and consulting experience supporting networking products and solutions with advanced expertise in network switching, routing and security highly desired.
  • Industry certifications like CCIE, CWNA, ACCP, ACCX, ACMP, ACMX, ACDX and RHEL preferred.
  • Radius (authentication, Authorization, Attributes, CoA, Accounting, etc.)
  • SNMP based monitoring and AMON troubleshooting
  • Linux installations and troubleshooting skills
  • TACACS (Authentication, Authorization including per-command)
  • PKI (CA, Certs, Encryption, Trust, Client-side config)
  • Captive Portal (Redirects, Logins, Walled Garden)
  • Web Programming (PHP, HTML, JavaScript)
  • Cloud technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure)
  • 802.1x (EAP-PEAP, EAP-TLS, Supplicant config, Server trust, wired/wireless differences)
  • Network Device AAA (Experience with AAA on different switches, WLAN controllers, VPN concentrators, integration with Radius solutions)
  • Policy Enforcement (ACLs, Firewalls, dACLs, web redirection, VLAN switching)
  • Windows Sysadmin (AD, DC, Domains/Groups, GPO)
  • LDAP (DB structure, user/computer objects/groups)
  • SQL (DB structure, filter creation), Strong knowledge of POSTGRES
  • API (XML, SOAP, REST, Python)
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