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.
- - Team player with solid 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 Efficient IP.
- Experience with automation and Orchestration of infrastructure operational processes (Ansible, Terraform, Python etc.).

📌 Network Architect (DC & AI) (Noida)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Noida