CCIE Certified Network Architect

Job Title: CCIE Certified Network Architect

**Job Location: New York, NY-onsite 8 - 14 years of experience**

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot overall networking and network connectivity to IoT devices/sensors
• Design and troubleshoot Cisco, Arista Network platforms and protocols
• Candidate’s focus will be developing lab framework to connect IOT end points to Campus/branch networks and certify the underlying hardware, software features and end point functionality.
• Candidate would be required to identity various communication scenarios between end and edge devices and create and execute and/ or oversee the testing of data gathering, aggregation, and analytics capabilities.
• The successful candidate would have a deep understanding and hands on experience of Cisco’s or other vendor’ similar product on SD-Access (SDA) and 802.1x or NAC (Network Admission Control) and TrustSec related functionality.
• Related to these are been well versed in Cisco IOS-XE products, Micro/Macro Segmentation configurations, Cisco DNA Center (DNAC) as it is the management GUI / controller for SD-Access and its automation.
• Candidate will be collaborating with different teams, strong network engineers, and higher management in his day-to-day activities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 yrs of relevant experience in enterprise network environment/customers

Required Skills

• Strong in Routing & Switching. Proficiency in routing protocols
• In depth experience in SD Access deployment, DNAC, VxLAN are mandatory
• Experience in IoT Deployment, IoT communication protocols
• Knowledge on Cisco ISE, TACACS, DNS/DHCP Functioning are important
• Cisco certification- CCIE Lab certification is mandatory
• Excellent Knowledge of Network protocols BGP, OSPF, Spanning Tree protocol, Multicast
• IP Routing Platforms: ISR, ASR1K, ASR9K, Catalyst 9K, Nexus9K
• Multicast: IGMPv2/v3, PIM, Static RP, RP-Anycast
• Overlay technologies like IPSEC, DMVPN, VXLAN, SDWAN, SDA, MACSEC
• Cabling and optics 10/25G/40G/50G/100G – Break out cables, break out panels.
• It is imperative that he/ she has excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Ansible knowledge a huge plus
• ISE knowledge a plus