
Network Engineer 3
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support the NOC Engineers with overflow support
- Serve as the technical escalation point for NOC Engineers
- Provide advanced level support to the NOC Engineers and their customer(s) when required
- Daily Network Monitoring and Alarm Administration
- Using our NMS(Network Monitoring System), identify network faults and initiate the restoration process
- Provide daily outage reports to Internal Groups and Management with progress updates
- Assist NOC Engineer in fielding partner carrier/vendor maintenance notifications, assessing network and customer impact, sending notifications to all stakeholders, and making prudent business decisions based on the variables
- Internal Change Management Lead create, administer, and execute Internal Change Management events stemming from Network Impairments
- Ensure Network redundancy is maintained when scheduling an event, send notifications to all stakeholders, and make prudent business decisions based on the variables Restore Customer services within a specified repair time frame based on our SLAs.
- Investigate Network outages to determine root cause, and provide recommendations for changes in processes & procedures, or network configuration to prevent recurrence of similar outages in the future.
- Update trouble tickets with clear and concise notes summarizing actions taken and next steps.
- Chronic Issue Investigation and Analysis
- Post-Mortem Analysis and RFO creation & distribution
- Support the escalation and communication of status to management and other internal stakeholders.
- 5-7 years of experience in network engineering. CCNP equivalent.
- Responsible for responding to service requests, incidents from the ticket queue.
- Able to troubleshoot network issues spanning multiple network technologies like routing / switching, firewall, VPN, SDWAN, Cisco ACI and VxLAN
- Able to work with vendors to troubleshoot issues and find the root cause and relay the appropriate information to management. Respond timely and stay on top of the issues.
- Experience and understanding of Routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, redistribution, mpBGP, eVPN, VxLAN), QoS, firewalls (Security Rules, NAT Rules, monitoring).
- Basic understanding of wireless controllers, Cloud computing (AWS/Azure), multicast
- Packet monitoring an analysis using wireshark and tcpdump
- Arista, python or Ansible scripting – good to have.
- Able to collaborate with automation and reliability team to fine tune alerting and monitoring.
- F5 / load balancing understanding and troubleshooting.
- Experience with AAA (Authentication / Authorization / Accounting) software (ISE/ClearPass)
- Knowledge of WPA2/WPA3 Enterprise & PSK, RADIUS and 802.1X and PKI concepts