Job Description for Network SME  Required Technical Skill Set** Cisco Nexus 5k/7k,F5,VPN,F5 Load balancer, Juniper Switches, Ansbile automation.      Desired Competencies (Technical Competency) Must-Have** (Ideally should not be more than 8-12) • Experience in Network Support with Good Knowledge and troubleshooting experience on Routing, Switching. • Must have worked or managed enterprise grade datacenter networks • Experience in working with Nexus5K, Nexus 7K/9K, Nexus 2K,routers,Juniper Switches • Experience in Test, Implement, and Support Advanced Layer-2/3 Switching Solutions. • Experience in Cisco or Juniper Routing and Switching, Cisco, Cisco ISE, Cisco Meraki, F5 Load balancer • Good Knowledge and experience in working of VRFs, VDCs, AAA, SNMP, • Monitoring tools, (DHCP/DNS/IPAM). • Experience in management of F5 devices- GTM,LTM,WAF, VPN, Firewalls • Experience in upgrade of F5 devices- GTM,LTM,WAF, VPN, Firewalls • Experience of Infoblox DNS & upgrades • Experience with Juniper switches ,Core MX routers • Experience in using Ansible Automation for various activities across Network devices,F5(LTM,GTM,WAF,VPN) upgrades using Ansible • Experience of SDN, Cisco ACI • Experience in checkpoint, FortiGate or another firewall, Cisco Prime. • Experience in configuration and troubleshooting knowledge in Layer2 protocols, such as: VLAN, Private VLANS, VTP, STP, DTP, Trunking, Stacking. High Availability Protocols (HSRP, VRRP, GLBP), EtherChannel, DOT1Q, ISL, SVI. • Experience in configuring/troubleshooting of Layer3 Protocols such as: BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, Static Routing, Floating Static Routing, Failover. Good-to-Have • Good to have knowledge with network management tools such as configuration management, network health check tools, log collectors. • Good to have knowledge in monitoring network with tools like (Cacti, netcool, Nagios, PRTG, NetFlow, etc.) • Good to have knowledge of using Spectrum/ E-Health/ Cisco-Prime/ NCM/ IPAM • Should have knowledge of Infovista tool. • Good to understand Internet Lease Lines, SDWAN, MPLS    Responsibility of / Expectations from the Role       Designs and configures network implementations/Upgrades.     Participates as a Subject Matter Expert in architectural design reviews.     Support for LAN/WAN networking technologies, including F5 LB support.     Perform analysis of various Projects and effort estimations .     Perform upgrade, implementation across multiple Network devices – manual, Using Ansible automation.      Develop configuration management capabilities and documentation practices.