Role: Network Engineer Location : Shelton, CT ( NEED TO BE DAY 1 ONSITE WITH NO FLEXIBILTY ) Primary Skills : - Firewall (Palo Alto) Juniper(EX,QFX Series switches) Switching & Routing Cisco ACI Microsoft Azure or AWS Cloud (Any one cloud) Aruba SDWAN (Silver Peak) (Desired good to have ) VMware NSX (Desired good to have ) Guard iCore (Desired good to have ) Secondary Skills: - Ansible, Azure Devops Job Description: 8 to 10 years of experience in Data Networking & Security, especially in the enterprise network environment Excellent hands-on experience on Data Networking & security technologies and products. Must be hands-on currently. CCIE Certified (preferred) Excellent hands-on experience on the following technologies Routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF, BGP LAN Switching VLAN, VTP, STP, EtherChannel, Cos, WAN MPLS, MPLS/VPN, MP-BGP Relevant work experience in network & security operations. Excellent understanding of Silver Peak SD WAN. Solid knowledge on the technologies particularly Palo Alto, firewalls, Cisco ACI & Juniper. Capacity to provide HLD and LLD documentation on network architecture level changes. Expertise with cloud computing platforms esp. Azure & AWS. Excellent technical and problem-solving knowledge during major incidents. Professional certifications like PCNSE, CCNP, JNCIE is preferrable. Juniper EX-8200/4200/SRX routers/firewalls Good to have skills on automation having knowledge on Python and Ansible. Strong network topologies and protocols experience in a large complex environment. Experience with WAN design including MPLS Experience with LAN design including IP allocations, network segmentation, and VLAN definition and implementation. Working knowledge of industry routing protocols (RIP, OSPF,EIGRP, BGP )