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Overview:

The service providers of the telecom, cable, and enterprise world are converging towards using cloud infrastructure as a means to reduce costs and increase service elasticity and, consequently, revenues. Since traditional approaches to networking in a cloud environment have become increasingly complex, the recent movement for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) have become official concepts created by a consortium of service providers to virtualize various network functions (applications). The goal is to achieve greater service agility and leverage the cost efficiencies of commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware, virtualization and open source software. Likewise, the idea is to design a network that can be virtualized, and therefore, elastic rather than fixed, and that the components and devices that comprise the typical network, can all be configured as virtual machines that run more efficiently by processors.

Required Skills:

• Background in networking with focus on IP technologies (network virtualization / SDN)
• Experience in delivering end to end SDN Solutions within any domain
• Good understanding of OpenFlow, OpenStack, and Virtualization
• Experience with enterprise infrastructure architecture and design of complex distributed systems environments, including failover techniques, recovery/rollback, and application partitioning Understanding of modern IT production data center and Internet (ISP/ASP) hosting operations
• Good working knowledge and experience of firewall technologies
• Good understanding of hardware including SAN Storage

Job Responsibilities:

• Participate in the architecture, design and development of services and devices to enable an SDN first strategy.
• Liaise with Hardware architect in similar roles and global product management to define standardized hardware solution baselines, application add-ons as well as industrialized delivery options.
• Architect and design cost effective alternatives for the service delivery of network and security technologies.
• Drive and partner the QA/Test, of Hardware products.
• Evaluate technical aspects of competing products.
• Identify, propose, architect and test (proof-of-concept or prototype) scalable and flexible solutions to support internal teams migrating, transforming, and/or developing applications in the SDN platform. Work with product management to collect product requirements and convert them to software development requirements.
• Contribute to technical architecture peer reviews and solution design sessions.
• Act as the last escalation point to resolve all NFV related engineering and architecture issues.
• Document, partner, and share templates, techniques, and artifacts with other development teams.