Senior Network Cloud Testing Engineer with IPV6

Job Title: Senior Network Cloud Testing Engineer with IPV6 Exp

Alpharetta GA Hybrid

Position Description:

This position is a highly skilled Cloud Network Test Engineer role with deep knowledge of IPV6 and hands-on experience across Public Cloud Infrastructures, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Candidates focus must be developing the lab testing frameworks, validating expected test performance on the IPV6 and dual-stack networking in cloud-native and enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will design test strategies and ensure compliance with IPV6 readiness standards across public clouds. The position requires coordination with other teams in gathering certification requirements, translating those requirements into a detailed test plan, executing them in coordination with other team members in a live lab environment. This entails troubleshooting, code/ platform lifecycle mgt, and provide solutions to complex hardware/software problems. The work involves close coordination across BU technologists in translating their network needs from business requirements, providing escalation support to network operations in validating bugs/vulnerabilities/work arounds in the lab, providing solutions, documenting the exposure/impact and presenting to the ENS forum for approval and assisting Operations in piloting those solutions in production environment.

This role will drive the IPV6 validation across multi cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures, develop sophisticated test automation frameworks using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation tools. The responsibilities include testing network DMZ designs and certifying the underlying hardware, software features and enhancing overall security posture of the network. The candidate would be required to identity various communication scenarios and create & execute and/ or oversee the testing, do the related data gathering and analytics capabilities and prepare related design and deployment templates.

The successful candidate would have a deep understanding and hands-on experience on Routing and Switching of Cisco platforms, IPV6, on-prem and cloud-based infrastructures and related security/ hardening aspects. Candidate is expected to be well versed in Cisco IOS-XE/ XR/ NXOS products, general network hygiene best practices, security and availability with understanding network security aspects and trends. The candidate will be collaborating with highly skilled infrastructure engineers and architects from across multiple verticals (e.g. cloud/ compute/ security/ telemetry/ desktop engineering teams/ security architects et al) and senior management often on a day-to-day basis. It is absolute imperative that he/ she has excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications:

• 8+ Years of experience with LAN/WAN network design, engineering, and feature testing/ certification.
• CCIE/CCNP certified or equivalent Level of experience
• AWS Advanced Networking, Azure Network Engineer, or Google Cloud Platform cloud Network Engineer certifications are desired.
• 4 + years of experience with Cloud PaaS and/or IaaS (Azure, AWS). Well versed in cloud networking solutions, understanding of cloud compute and related cloud operating models.
• Must have understanding:

AWS constructs like VPC IPV6 addressing, Internet Gateway, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53

Azure: VNet IPv6, Azure Load balancer, IPV6 Express Route, NSGs, Azure Network Watcher

Google Cloud Platform: Cloud Routers, Google Access for IPv6, Cloud NAT64, Interconnect, VPC Flow Logs

• 3+ years of IPV6 Networking and validation experience.
• Experience with building Lab designs, and certification of hardware and software of products, performing PoCs.
• Strong knowledge of Networking technologies: TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, MPBGP, MPLS VPNs, VxLAN, Multicast
• Well versed in DMVPN, IPSEC and Encryption Standards, Network Security
• Experience on Cisco IOS-XE, Nexus Devices.
• Python Network programming knowledge is a plus.
• Knowledge in Agile process is a plus
• Work under minimal supervision
• Experience in using test tools like Ixia/Spirent/ iperf, Latency generators a big plus
• Network traffic analysis, able to read pcaps, Wireshark
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Collaborate and co-ordinate with Network and Security teams, and vendors.
• Ability to deal with multiple projects and prioritize the tasks
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills a MUST
• Create all necessary test cases and develop config templates and operational manuals.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills, while working with diverse audiences including highly skilled IT professionals and senior management.
• Collaborate with other technical teams to deliver product and solution level support.
• Facilitate the transition from PoC to certification to pilot to a fully established prod environment, with focus preparing test plans and incremental updates to stakeholders.
• Extensive liaising with Cisco and Arista

Skills Required:

• Excellent Knowledge of Network protocols BGP, OSPF, Spanning Tree protocol, Multicast
• Strong understanding of IPV6 fundamentals, addressing, NDP, ICMPv6, DHCPv6, SLAAC, IPV6 + IPV4 implementation.
• Experience with Routing Protocols OSPFv3, BGPv6
• Knowledge on Cloud Networking and Security best practices (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• MS Azure VNet, VNet-Peering, Private Link, vWAN, Express Route, Firewall, Load Balancer
• AWS Global infrastructure, VPC, S3, EC2, Route 53, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect
• Knowledge of firewalls and NAT64/DNS64 configuration.
• Design and troubleshoot Cisco, Arista Network platforms and protocols
• IP Routing Platforms: ISR, ASR1K, ASR9K, Catalyst 9K, Catalyst8Kv, Nexus9K
• Multicast: IGMPv2/v3, PIM, Static RP, RP-Anycast
• Overlay technologies like IPSEC, DMVPN, VXLAN, MACSEC and SDWAN/SDA a plus
• Cabling and optics 10/25G/40G/50G/100G Break out cables, break out panels.
• Ansible knowledge a huge plus
• Proficient in traffic generation tools like Ixia/Spirent, iPerf3, Wireshark.
• Test automation within CI/CD infrastructure, ROBOT framework a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes and IPV6 enabled CNI plugins like Calico and Cilium is a plus.