Network Test Engineer

Job role :Network Test Engineer

Experience: 10+

Location : NYC

Skills

• Senior level, experienced, can lead projects and work independently.
• Experience required with extensive experience with LAN/WAN network design, engineering, and code/ feature certification/ validation.
• Experience with testing design and certification of products in LAB environments is highly desirable.
• CCIE or at a min CCNP level experience.

Skills Required

• Demonstrate knowledge of working with protocols such as OSPF, BGP, IGMP and PIM.
• Experience with Cisco Platforms such as Catalyst and Nexus.
• Knowledge of certification of new code, and bug Scrubs on IOS/ XE/ NXOS/ and limited XR.
• Good foundation in Linux administration, networking, and automation.
• Cloud-native networking concepts, including Kubernetes architecture, container networking (CNI), and operational tools such as kubectl.
• Familiarity with eBPF-based networking and security, particularly platforms such as Cilium is major plus. This includes policy enforcement, observability, service load balancing, BGP integration, and troubleshooting using eBPF maps and kernel-level telemetry
• Good knowledge of Python, Github.
• Ansible playbooks authoring and how to integrate Ansible with ROBOT framework for seamless automation is beneficial.
• Some proficiency in the ROBOT Framework is a big plus
• Experience with Arista Platforms such as 7280, 7504, 7060 etc.
• Experience developing strategies with multiple vendors.
• Experienced with creating design documents for each certification which includes engineering guidelines.
• Experience with Tools such as IXIA and / or Spirent to test and certify various designs and troubleshoot networks issues.
• Excellent knowledge of IP Routing, BGP, OSPF, and layer2 protocols like Spanning-tree.
• Understanding of network protocols, network platforms such as Cisco/Arista to design and troubleshoot new implementations.
• Good protocol level understanding/ Wireshark.
• Multicast: IGMPv2/3, PIM-SM, Static RP, RP-Anycast, MSDP.
• IP Routing Platforms, ISR4k, ASR1K, Catalyst.
• Cisco/ Arista Switching Platforms Catalyst switches.
• strong knowledge of Switching and Switching mechanisms like CEF, TCAM.