Overview
Hybrid
$55 - $60
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Skills
Network
SD WAN
Job Details
Role: Network - SD WAN Devops
Location: Plano, TX (Only Locals)
Contract: Long term
Rate: $60/hr on C2C Max
Role Overview:
We are seeking a highly experienced SD-WAN Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solutions across a BFSI-grade hybrid enterprise environment. This role requires deep technical knowledge of routing, traffic engineering, cloud integration, and zero-touch provisioning, with strong emphasis on resiliency, security, compliance, and application performance.
Primary Technical Skills:
- SD-WAN Platforms: Cisco Viptela, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, VMware VeloCloud, Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect.
- Routing Protocols: Expert in BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, route redistribution across underlay and overlay.
- Application-Aware Routing: Dynamic path control, DSCP-based prioritisation, SLA-driven traffic steering.
- WAN Optimisation: Deduplication, compression, TCP optimisation, FEC.
- Orchestration & Provisioning: Zero-touch provisioning (ZTP), template-based deployments, multi-tenant segmentation.
- Cloud Integration: Direct cloud on-ramp (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), ExpressRoute, Transit Gateway, cloud-native firewalls.
- Overlay Security: IPSec, IKEv2, certificate-based auth, RBAC.
- High Availability: Active-active/standby architectures, dual CPE, path resilience.
- QoS & Traffic Engineering: End-to-end QoS, shaping, policing, per-app SLA.
- Multicast & Voice: Multicast over SD-WAN, VoIP optimisation, MOS-based routing.
- Secondary Technical Skills:
- Transport Diversity: MPLS, broadband, 5G/LTE, satellite link integration with path modelling.
- Monitoring & Telemetry: SolarWinds, NetFlow, SNMP, SD-WAN analytics dashboards.
- Firewall & VPN Integration: Coordination with NGFWs (Fortinet, Palo Alto), site-to-site VPN, ZTNA.
- Automation & Scripting: Python, Ansible, REST APIs for provisioning and config compliance.
- Network Segmentation: VRF-based design, zone policies, microsegmentation.
- DNS/DHCP: Centralised relay, DNS forwarding, split-horizon DNS.
- SIEM Integration: Syslog forwarding to Splunk, QRadar for event risk management.
- Cloud-Native Networking: Transit Gateway Connect, Azure Virtual WAN, Google Cloud Platform Cloud Router.
- Policy-Based Forwarding (PBF): Match-action-based path steering.
- Overlay Underlay Correlation: Real-time tunnel-to-path mapping and remediation.
Required Experience:
- 8 12 years in network engineering with minimum 3+ years hands-on SD-WAN design, deployment and operations.
- Proven ability to scale SD-WAN architectures across multi-branch BFSI environments.
- Strong documentation experience: HLD/LLD, runbooks, change control, as-built diagrams.
- Industry background in regulated sectors (BFSI, healthcare, telecom) with compliance focus.
- Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional teams (security, cloud, infrastructure).
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of SASE/SSE models ZTNA, SWG, CASB integration with SD-WAN.
- Exposure to cloud-native networking and hybrid network service chaining.
- Understanding of ITIL v4 processes incident, change, problem management.
- Experience with DevNet, NetDevOps, CI/CD for network automation.
- Awareness of compliance frameworks: ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, RBI, PCI-DSS.
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