Network Test Engineer

Job role :Network Test Engineer

Experience: 10+

Location : NYC

Skills:

•        Senior level, experienced, can lead projects and work independently.
•        Experience required with extensive experience with LAN/WAN network design, engineering, and code/ feature certification/ validation.
•        Experience with testing design and certification of products in LAB environments is highly desirable.
•        CCIE or at a min CCNP level experience. 
Skills Required:
•        Demonstrate knowledge of working with protocols such as OSPF, BGP, IGMP and PIM.
•        Experience with Cisco Platforms such as Catalyst and Nexus.
•        Knowledge of certification of new code, and bug Scrubs on IOS/ XE/ NXOS/ and limited XR.
•        Good foundation in Linux administration, networking, and automation.
•        Cloud-native networking concepts, including Kubernetes architecture, container networking (CNI), and operational tools such as kubectl.
•        Familiarity with eBPF-based networking and security, particularly platforms such as Cilium is major plus.  This includes policy enforcement, observability, service load balancing, BGP integration, and troubleshooting using eBPF maps and kernel-level telemetry
•        Good knowledge of Python, Github.
•        Ansible playbooks authoring and how to integrate Ansible with ROBOT framework for seamless automation is beneficial.
•        Some proficiency in the ROBOT Framework is a big plus
•        Experience with Arista Platforms such as 7280, 7504, 7060 etc.
•        Experience developing strategies with multiple vendors.
•        Experienced with creating design documents for each certification which includes engineering guidelines.
•        Experience with Tools such as IXIA and / or Spirent to test and certify various designs and troubleshoot networks issues. 
•        Excellent knowledge of IP Routing, BGP, OSPF, and layer2 protocols like Spanning-tree.
•        Understanding of network protocols, network platforms such as Cisco/Arista to design and troubleshoot new implementations.
•        Good protocol level understanding/ Wireshark.
•        Multicast: IGMPv2/3, PIM-SM, Static RP, RP-Anycast, MSDP.
•        IP Routing Platforms, ISR4k, ASR1K, Catalyst.
•        Cisco/ Arista Switching Platforms Catalyst switches.
•        strong knowledge of Switching and Switching mechanisms like CEF, TCAM.