Senior Network Cloud Testing Engineer (hybrid)

Sr Network Cloud Testing Engineer

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We are currently seeking a Senior Network Cloud Testing Engineer (hybrid) to join our team in Alpharetta, Georgia (US-GA), United States (US).

This position is a highly skilled Cloud Network Test Engineer role with deep knowledge of IPV6 and hands-on experience across Public Cloud Infrastructures, AWS, Azure and GCP. Candidates focus must be developing the lab testing frameworks, validating expected test performance on the IPV6 and dual-stack networking in cloud-native and enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will design test strategies and ensure compliance with IPV6 readiness standards across public clouds. The position requires coordination with other teams in gathering certification requirements, translating those requirements into a detailed test plan, executing them in coordination with other team members in a live lab environment. This entails troubleshooting, code/ platform lifecycle management, and provide solutions to complex hardware/software problems. The work involves close coordination across BU technologists in translating their network needs from business requirements, providing escalation support to network operations in validating bugs/vulnerabilities/work arounds in the lab, providing solutions, documenting the exposure/impact and presenting to the ENS forum for approval and assisting Operations in piloting those solutions in production environment. This role will drive the IPV6 validation across multi cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures, develop sophisticated test automation frameworks using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation tools. The responsibilities include testing network DMZ designs and certifying the underlying hardware, software features and enhancing overall security posture of the network.

The candidate would be required to identify various communication scenarios and create & execute and/or oversee the testing, do the related data gathering and analytics capabilities and prepare related design and deployment templates.

The successful candidate would have a deep understanding and hands-on experience on Routing and Switching of Cisco platforms, IPV6, on-prem and cloud-based infrastructures and related security/ hardening aspects.

Candidate is expected to be well versed in Cisco IOS-XE/ XR/ NXOS products, general network hygiene best practices, security and availability with understanding network security aspects and trends. The candidate will be collaborating with highly skilled infrastructure engineers and architects from across multiple verticals (e.g. cloud/ compute/ security/ telemetry/ desktop engineering teams/ security architects et al) and senior management often on a day-to-day basis.

Qualifications:

- 8+ years of experience with LAN/WAN network design, engineering, and feature testing/certification.

- 8+ years of experience with Network-Routing and Switching-Network Design.

- 4 + years of experience with Cloud PaaS and/or IaaS (Azure, AWS). - 4+ years of experience with building lab designs, and certification of hardware and software of products, performing PoCs.