Hiring: SD-WAN Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Location: Pan India (Preferred: Pune/Bangalore/Delhi NCR)
Experience: 12+ Years
Employment Type: Full time

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced SD-WAN Subject Matter Expert (SME) with 12+ years of enterprise networking experience to lead the design, deployment, and operations of next-generation SD-WAN solutions. The ideal candidate should have hands-on expertise in architecting large-scale SD-WAN environments and should have proven experience in setting up and managing an SD-WAN Network

Operations Center (NOC), including defining operational processes, monitoring frameworks, escalation models, and service delivery standards.

This role requires strong technical leadership in SD-WAN architecture, routing and switching, network security, automation, cloud connectivity, and NOC transformation.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and implement enterprise-scale SD-WAN solutions for global networks.
- Lead brownfield migration from MPLS, Internet, and Hybrid WAN to SD-WAN architecture.
- Build and establish an end-to-end SD-WAN NOC infrastructure, including operational workflows, monitoring tools, incident management, and L1/L2/L3 support models.
- Define NOC SOPs, SLAs, KPIs, escalation matrices, and operational governance.
- Design High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documents.
- Deploy Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for branch onboarding and lifecycle management.
- Configure application-aware routing, QoS, traffic engineering, and centralized policy management.
- Integrate SD-WAN with AWS, Azure,



and Google Cloud environments.
- Implement secure overlays using IPsec VPN, GRE tunnels, SASE, Zero Trust, and network segmentation.
- Lead troubleshooting of complex routing, performance, and security issues.
- Drive automation using Python, Ansible, REST APIs, JSON, and YANG models.
- Collaborate with telecom providers, OEMs, and cross-functional teams to ensure high availability and network optimization.
- Mentor engineering and NOC teams while driving technical best practices.

Required Technical Skills

SD-WAN Platforms (Any One or More)

- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela vManage, vSmart, vBond, cEdge)
- VMware VeloCloud
- Versa Networks
- Fortinet SD-WAN
- Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN (CloudGenix)

Routing & Switching

NOC Expertise (Mandatory)

Candidates must have hands-on experience in:

- Building SD-WAN NOC from scratch.
- Designing L1, L2, and L3 operational support models.
- Creating monitoring dashboards and alerting frameworks.
- Incident, Problem, Change, and Capacity Management.
- 24x7 Network Operations governance.
- Knowledge Base (KB), SOP, RCA, and Runbook creation.
- Service Transition and Operational Readiness.

Preferred Certifications

- CCNP Enterprise
- Cisco Certified Specialist Enterprise SD-WAN
- CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure (Preferred)
- Fortinet NSE 7
- PCNSE
- VMware VCP-NV
- ITIL Foundation

Educational Qualification

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics & Telecommunications, or a related field.

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