Senior Network Cloud Testing Engineer

**Position: Senior Network Cloud Testing Engineer

Location: NYC, NY or Alpharetta, GA

W2 Contract Role** Required Skills What we are looking for?

• Looking for any cloud Azure, AWS. Our program introduces IPV6. Good understanding of IPV6. Needs to be excellent in all BGP, Routing and networking concepts
• We need a person who is experienced and has good basics in routing, switching, networks
• IPV 4 to IPV6 connectivity into the cloud. Should know about various connections. Should have automation capabilities for ex: Terraform, Ansible.
• Person should come to face 2 face interview either in Alpharetta or in NYC.

Job Description

• This position is a highly skilled Cloud Network Test Engineer role with deep knowledge of IPV6 and hands-on experience across Public Cloud Infrastructures, AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Candidates focus must be developing the lab testing frameworks, validating expected test performance on the IPV6 and dual-stack networking in cloud-native and enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will design test strategies and ensure compliance with IPV6 readiness standards across public clouds.
• The position requires coordination with other teams in gathering certification requirements, translating those requirements into a detailed test plan, executing them in coordination with other team members in a live lab environment.
• This entails troubleshooting, code/ platform lifecycle mgt, and provide solutions to complex hardware/software problems.
• The work involves close coordination across BU technologists in translating their network needs from business requirements, providing escalation support to network operations in validating bugs/vulnerabilities/work arounds in the lab, providing solutions, documenting the exposure/impact and presenting to the ENS forum for approval and assisting Operations in piloting those solutions in production environment.
• This role will drive the IPV6 validation across multi cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures, develop sophisticated test automation frameworks using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation tools.
• The responsibilities include testing network DMZ designs and certifying the underlying hardware, software features and enhancing overall security posture of the network.
• The candidate would be required to identity various communication scenarios and create & execute and/ or oversee the testing, do the related data gathering and analytics capabilities and prepare related design and deployment templates.
• The successful candidate would have a deep understanding and hands-on experience on Routing and Switching of Cisco platforms, IPV6, on-prem and cloud-based infrastructures and related security/ hardening aspects.
• Candidate is expected to be well versed in Cisco IOS-XE/ XR/ NXOS products, general network hygiene best practices, security and availability with understanding network security aspects and trends.
• The candidate will be collaborating with highly skilled infrastructure engineers and architects from across multiple verticals (e.g. cloud/ compute/ security/ telemetry/ desktop engineering teams/ security architects et al) and senior management often on a day-to-day basis. It is absolute imperative that he/ she has excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications:

• 8+ Years of experience with LAN/WAN network design, engineering, and feature testing/ certification. CCIE/CCNP certified or equivalent Level of experience AWS Advanced Networking, Azure Network Engineer, or GCP cloud Network Engineer certifications are desired.
• 4 + years of experience with Cloud PaaS and/or IaaS (Azure, AWS).
• Well versed in cloud networking solutions, understanding of cloud compute and related cloud operating models.
• Must have understanding AWS constructs like VPC IPV6 addressing, Internet Gateway, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53 Azure: VNet IPv6, Azure Load balancer, IPV6 Express Route, NSGs, Azure Network Watcher GCP: Cloud Routers, Google Access for IPv6, Cloud NAT64, Interconnect, VPC Flow Logs.
• 3+ years of IPV6 Networking and validation experience.
• Experience with building Lab designs, and certification of hardware and software of products, performing PoCs.
• Strong knowledge of Networking technologies: TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, MPBGP, MPLS VPNs, VxLAN, Multicast Well versed in DMVPN, IPSEC and Encryption Standards, Network Security Experience on Cisco IOS-XE, Nexus Devices. Python Network programming knowled…