Principal Lead- Network - Gurgaon - Ameriprise

Support complex network connectivity architectures by developing, designing, configuring, implementing, and maintaining detailed network engineering strategies/solutions that meet and/or exceed capability, flexibility, scalability, performance, and reliability objectives for a variety of large projects, across multiple technologies, within technical area of expertise. Provide technical leadership to team/vendor/contractor resources, ensuring viability of designs, flawless execution, and seamless transition into the production environment and maintained for ongoing BAU activities.

Responsibilities:

• Independently and team environment perform highly complex assignments.
• Lead proper execution of network changes & updates in accordance with corporate security policies to meet business requirements.
• Responsible for network performance monitoring in addition to being able to lead troubleshooting complex network-related issues in a logical manner.
• Research, recommend, and establish innovative solutions supporting service availability targets with proper capacity planning that scale with the business growth.
• Identify monitoring gaps and work with product owners to develop alerting targeting a proactive approach to Incident prevention.
• Collaborates with all Information Technology (IT) disciplines.
• Creates, maintains, and updates documentation with most relevant information.
• Escalation resource during major incidents and outages as needed.
• Perform other special project and duties as assigned.
• Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution, and provide ongoing life-cycle support for network deployments and upgrades.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure project scoping activities are aligned with architectural objectives.
• Participate and provide input into the continual refinement of processes, policies, and best practices to ensure optimal performance and availability of technologies.
• Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise by remaining apprised of industry trends, the direction of emerging technologies, and their potential value to the business.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 10-14 years of relevant networking experience required in below:

• Cisco Platforms: Routing and Switching (ISR/ASR/Nexus/Catalyst), wireless, ACI, Meraki, SDWAN, ISE
• Cloud Networking - AWS, Azure
• Network monitoring, NetFlow, capacity management
• Packet capture and analysis - Gigastor, Wireshark

• 10-14 years of experience with network design and engineering.
• Strong analytical and customer service abilities.
• Ability to communicate and articulate technical information across various organizational levels.
• Strong thought leadership abilities and a highly innovative problem solver.
• Ability to coach and mentor experienced Network staff.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cisco Platforms: Routing and Switching (ISR/ASR/Nexus/Catalyst), wireless, ACI, Meraki, SDWAN, ISE
• Cloud Networking - AWS, Azure
• Network monitoring, NetFlow, capacity management
• Packet Broker - Gigamon
• Working knowledge in security devices Firewalls - Palo Alto, Cisco, Checkpoint F5 - Big IP, Infoblox - DNS, DHCP, NTP
• Automation & scripting