Azure Datacenter Network Engineer

Top Skills' Details

1. Azure Networking- Experience with on prem networking in a datacenter who has moved to Azure

2. Terraform- Ability to identify infrastructure and automate tasks (From scratch)

3. Checkpoint Firewalls- Understanding the ports and managing policies

4. F5 Load Balancers- how to manage traffic equally. Azure load balancer is acceptable.

Description

Team: This team consists of 6 engineers.

Environment: 15,000 users Arista networking,1,500 virtual servers 1,000 Windows and 300 Linux

Nutanix primarily for servers and Checkpoint/Z-Scaler firewalls.

They are also implementing Azure into their cloud space.

2 datacenters, one in Morrisville, and one in Chicago.

Experience with Arista EOS, cloud vision, EVPN, and BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)

Ability to work with both cloud and on-premises environments

Knowledge of firewall policy management in a deny-by-default environment like Azure, including managing policies, using logging tools, and troubleshooting connectivity issues

Experience with Terraform to manage the Azure environment, with the ability to work independently

Understanding of ExpressRoute, a dedicated connectivity solution from an on-premises data center to Azure

Experience supporting server team migrations to Azure and maintaining on-premises data center network infrastructure

Proficiency in handling firewall policies and building VNets and firewall policies in Azure. Open to other firewall technologies.

Strong work ethic, proactive attitude, and ability to own the environment

Skills

Network engineering, Data center, azure, terraform, load balancer, Firewall, Arista, Router, waf, Bgp

Additional Skills & Qualifications

This Network Engineer must have experience with datacenter networking, as there are old school legacy technologies in their environment that need to be cared for everyone in a while. Ideal candidate is someone who has strong foundational knowledge of Azure networking and helped to move an organization into the cloud. Terraform is a must have, author level experience for infrastructure as a code (IaC)They will work with Arista technologies although experience with Cisco products is acceptable. Must be strong with BGP and understand how it works. shifting traffic from one router to another. Checkpoint firewalls, ability to help manage firewall polices and know when to overlap, combine, etc. Also Barracuda WAF (Web Application Firewalls). Working knowledge of F5 load balancers Azure load balancers are acceptable.

Experience Level

Intermediate Level