About the Role Operations & Uptime Maintain and support Routing and Switching, Cisco Catalyst/Nexus, Juniper EX, Cisco Routers, Juniper MX, and firewalls (Fortinet, Palo Alto PAN‑OS, Cisco ASA/FTD, Juniper SRX, Check Point). Ensure 99.9%+ availability through proactive monitoring, capacity planning, and preventive maintenance.

Responsibilities Operations & Uptime Maintain and support Cisco Catalyst/Nexus, Juniper EX, Cisco Routers, Juniper MX, and firewalls (Fortinet, Palo Alto PAN‑OS, Cisco ASA/FTD, Juniper SRX, Check Point). Ensure 99.9%+ availability through proactive monitoring, capacity planning, and preventive maintenance.

Incident

Response & Troubleshooting Triage, isolate, and resolve L2/L3 connectivity, security policy, NAT, VPN, HA failover, and performance issues. Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement corrective/preventive actions.

Configuration Management

Maintain standardized, secure configurations (hardening baselines, AAA/TACACS+/RADIUS, Syslog, NTP).



Version control for configs; follow change management (ITIL) with rollback plans. Monitoring &

• Observability Implement SNMP/NETCONF/REST APIs, Syslog, NetFlow/sFlow/IPFIX, and platform-specific telemetry. Define alert thresholds for CPU, memory, interfaces, PSU/temperature, VPN/HA state, and security events. Security &

• Compliance Enforce firewall policies, segmentation (VLANs/VXLAN), micro/macro segmentation standards. Patch and upgrade devices, validate against compliance benchmarks (e.g., CIS). Automation &

• Scripting Use Python/Ansible (or vendor tools) for backups, audits, bulk changes, and compliance checks. Documentation &

• Knowledge Sharing Maintain network diagrams, IPAM, runbooks, RCA reports, and standards. Provide training and collaborate across NOC/Infra/Security/Application teams.

Qualifications Any Degree Experience 3 Years to 6 Years

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