Senior Network Cloud Testing Engineer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Senior Network Cloud Testing Engineer for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Alpharetta, GA.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate and co-ordinate with Network and Security teams, and vendors.
• Ability to deal with multiple projects and prioritize the tasks
• 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

Required Skills:

• 8+ Years of experience with LAN/WAN network design, engineering, and feature testing/ certification.
• CCIE/CCNP certified or equivalent Level of experience
• 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.
• Network traffic analysis, able to read pcaps, Wireshark
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills a MUST
• 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.
• Proficient in traffic generation tools like Ixia/Spirent, iPerf3, Wireshark.

Preferred Skills:

• Ansible knowledge a huge plus
• 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.
• Experience in using test tools like Ixia/Spirent/ iperf, Latency generators a big plus
• Python Network programming knowledge is a plus. Knowledge in Agile process is a plus
• AWS Advanced Networking, Azure Network Engineer, or Google Cloud Platform cloud Network Engineer certifications are desired.

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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