Senior Network Administrator - IT

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Job Description

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Senior Network Administrator - IT (L2)   located in Chennai.

Reporting to the Senior Manage r & the role involves

What a typical day looks like: Strong technical expertise in areas such as Routing, Switching, Security and Traffic Optimization.

Technical expert with sharp skills in technologies such as Dynamic Routing Protocols, LAN switches, Wireless LAN technologies, Firewall configuration, SSL & IPSec VPN/DMVPN configuration, Cisco WAAS/vWAAS, AppNav Controllers, Performance Routing (PFRv3), cisco AVC.

Experience working with Network QOS

In-depth experience/operational knowledge working with SNMP, NetFlow, and Network Tools

Good knowledge and working experience on ISR & ASR with IOS XE platform.

Experience in handling complex production issues, major outages, root cause analysis (RCA) and excellent diagnostic, problem solving skills.

Effective communication with high degree of escalation management

The experience we’re looking to add to our team: Any graduate or post graduate

8+Years of IT experience.

5+ years of experience in WAN alone, 5 to 7 years is more preferred

L2 Network Support.

Technologies/Protocols: TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, HSRP, IPsec, VPN/DMVPN, MPLS. QoS, Multicast, dot1q, STP, VLANS, VTP, HSRP, VoIP, WLAN, DNS, DHCP, ARP, SNMP, NetFlow, Cisco vPC, FCoE, Cisco Fabric Path etc."

Products: Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco Routers (ISR & ASR with IOS XE platform), Cisco Nexus Switches, Cisco WAN Accelerators, F5 load-balancers, Cisco ASAs, Cisco & Aruba WLAN products, Packet analysis and debugging abilities using a variety of tools (e.g. Ethereal/Wireshark, tcp dump, etc.)

Proficient knowledge in scripting (Linux/Unix Shell scripts / Python / Ruby, etc,) and Hands-on experience in Configuration Management and Deployment tools (Chef / Puppet / Ansible / Terraform, etc.)

Good knowledge in CI/CD tools (Jenkins / TeamCity / Bamboo / Travis CI, etc,) and building CI/CD pipelines good knowledge in GIT (GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket) or SCM tools (SVN, TFS, etc.)

R eady to work in shifts 24x7 support

Certifications Cisco certification is preferred CCNA, CCNP/CCDP (Routing & Switching), CCIE.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide: Health Insurance

Paid Time Off

NK99

Job Category

IT

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