Location
- Noida, Bengaluru, Chennai. Hyderabad & Pune Responsibilities
• Hands on experience of Software Design Network technologies
• Experience in designs and implement next-generation technologies for enterprise networks.
• Design expertise for multiple vendors of DC-LAN/SDN, SD-WAN and SD-LAN technologies.
• Experienced in technology consulting projects:
• Data Centre Transformation assessments
• Definition of Infrastructure Strategies and Roadmap
• Architecture Design and Implementation of Infrastructure and Automation Solutions.
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• Team player with strong analytical skills and the ability to understand and resolve complex problems.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with ability to clearly communicate ideas and results to client and company supervisors.
• Ability to lead projects single-handedly with minimum support.
• Architecture Skills
• Analyse infrastructure solutions
• Provide infrastructure analysis services to clients and/or internal stakeholders.
• Analyse and understand user/customer need and expectations, as well as alternative infrastructure architectures and trends.
• Conduct analyses of technology and associated operational processes, with a view to recommending infrastructure designs and strategies that will improve service, lower costs, and prevent unforeseen operational issues.
• Create architectural standards.
• Interview clients’ technical teams to gather relevant information to facilitate architectural requirements definitions.
• Establish, explain, and validate the solution-testing criteria for projects.
• Design services in the area of technology solutions, operations architecture and Accenture standards.
• Deploy solution architectures that promote a clear, consistent business vision.
• Conduct analysis of alternative architectures and define a solution's cost-of-ownership.




• Articulate key aspects of architecture and design (e.g., scalability, availability, manageability, robustness, appropriate incorporation of new technology) through models, documentation, and code; present architectures to executive management, clients, and developer teams.
• Execute projects using various technology solutions.
• Perform Network Assessment from Network Data perspective and recommend growth path/enhancement. Qualifications
• Technical bachelor’s degree or equivalent Required Skills
• Must have:
• Minimum 14+ years of IT experience in designing, implementing & other network technologies
• Understanding and on experience in Cisco AI-POD/Juniper AI Datacenter solution/Nvidia AIDC, SDN (NSX), SDWAN (Cisco Catalyst SDWAN, Velocloud, Versa, EdgeConnect, Cloudgenix and others) and SD-LAN
• Understanding and experience of broad network concepts [not limited to]:
• mainly Protocols [BGP, OSPF]
• Switching [Campus Switching]
• Tunneling communication (i.e., IPsec, VXLAN)
• RoCv2/Infinband networking
• Data Center Network [Tiered designs, Leaf/Spine, VXLAN, DCI]
• APP optimizers [LB’s, WAN Optimizers]
• Wireless
• L2/L3 EVPN VXLAN fabrics
• Multi-pod DC architectures
• AI POD connectivity
• East-West traffic optimization
• Understanding on “Software Define” Networking in any of the space [DC, WAN and Campus]
• Experience in Design, Build and Migration of Large Networking transformation solution in DC, WAN and/or Campus.
• At least 1 Infrastructure Advanced Certification from different OEM (VMware, Cisco, etc.) Preferred Skills
• Nice to have:
• Next gen Firewall experience (PaloAlto/Checkpoint/Fortigate)
• Experience in DDI (DHCP, DNS, IPPAM) solutions like Infoblox and Effective IP.
• Experience with automation and Orchestration of infrastructure operational processes (Ansible, Terraform, Python etc.).

📌 Network Architect (Noida)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Noida