Tech Lead- Network

Skills Required:
Routing, networking, wan , Wireless, Aruba Wireless, Meraki, Sdwan, Wireless Networking

Education/Qualification:
BSc, BE in Electronics/Computer Science or equivalent required

Desirable Skills:
Cisco Wireless, load balancing, Infoblox

Years Of Exp:
6 to 10 Years

About the Role:
 

Job Description:

‘Tech Lead - Network’ will be part of the IT Infrastructure team that provides design, deployment & support for systems, services and requirements across Flipkart Corporate locations. The IT Infrastructure team is also responsible for managing heterogeneous environments & generating metrics related to Network performance, capacity, availability, failure rates, etc. Specific experience with Large scale WAN, Campus LAN, WLAN with strong technical orientation & creativity in problem solving.

About the team:

Flipkart is India’s largest e-commerce marketplace with a registered customer base of over 100 million. In the 10 years since it started, Flipkart has come to offer over 80 million products cross 80+ categories including Smartphones, Books, Media, Consumer Electronics, Furniture, Fashion and Lifestyle. Launched in October 2007, Flipkart is known for its path-breaking services like Cash on Delivery, No cost EMI and a 10-day replacement policy. Flipkart was the pioneer in offering services like In-a-Day Guarantee (65 cities) and Same-Day-Guarantee (13 cities) at scale. With over 1,00,000 registered sellers, Flipkart has redefined the way brands and MSME’s do business online

You are Responsible for:
 

Responsibilities & requirements:

This is a hands-on technical role.
Independently own the Network Infrastructure support solving complex issues and suggest design modifications as appropriate.
Ensure SLAs are met
Responsible for performance analysis, proactive troubleshooting and capacity planning for the Network platforms.
Perform monitoring and maintenance of the overall environment working with experienced team members.
Participate in troubleshooting
Performance analysis & Root Cause Analysis.
Communicate with peers and managers regarding system issues & participate in 24x7 on-call.
Manage equipment tracking
Automate operational tasks to make processes simpler and more robust.
Ability to handle multiple complex tasks in a dynamic environment, with tight deadlines concurrently.
Generate reports on a need basis.

To succeed in this role – you should have the following:
 

6-9 years of experience in design, deploy & manage IPv4/IPv6 networks, majorly on WLAN 
Supporting a diverse environment with multiple OEMs.
SDWAN Platforms - Lavelle/Foritgate/Meraki/Versa 
WLAN platforms – Cisco, Zebra(previously it was Motorola) NX Series , Aruba,  Fortigate, Ruckus 
Solid understanding of design, deployment and support of SDWAN/LAN and WLAN Infrastructure. 
Experience in Wireless technologies       WLAN topologies, devices, troubleshooting. 
   802.11a/b/g/i/n/ac IEEE standards security architecture & RF       site surveys.  

Wireless and Local Area Network technologies in a large-scale geographically diverse environment 
Knowledge on preventing DOS attacks, and wireless security vulnerabilities. 
 

Experience in doing performance enhancement in WLAN, post deployment 
Experience in IP services (IPv4, IPv6, VPN, Multicast, QOS, SNMP, VOIP, 
SIP, etc.).

Platform knowledge on Aruba/Cisco/Juniper/Fortigate/Palo Alto  - Routing protocols like OSPF, BGP,MPLS,ISIS etc.. 
Proven experience in network management & Expert knowledge of network analysis tools (Solar winds, Nagios, Zabbix, Zenoss) 
Hands on experience with Protocol Analyzer tools & debugging tools. - Knowledge on scripting languages like Perl/Python - Knowledge on Linux Platform. 
Engage with vendors. 
Good communication skills 
BSc, BE in Electronics/Computer Science or equivalent required - Candidates with Multi platform skills are preferred.