Networking Engineer-Senior Consultant-Hyderabad/Bengaluru

Position Summary

CORE BUSINESS OPERATIONS

The Core Business Operations (CBO) portfolio is an integrated set of offerings that addresses our clients’ heart-of-the-business issues. This portfolio combines our functional and technical capabilities to help clients transform, modernize, and run their existing technology platforms across industries. As our clients navigate dynamic and disruptive markets, these solutions are designed to help them drive product and service innovation, improve financial performance, accelerate speed to market, and operate their platforms to innovate continuously.

Network Job Description (Senior Consultant/Specialist Senior)

Deloitte's Cloud Engineering services are designed to guide clients through their comprehensive transition from traditional on-premises or co-located infrastructures to the cloud. We emphasize the transformative potential of cloud technology as a catalyst for business enhancement, focusing on boosting agility and resilience. By leveraging automation, we help clients streamline IT operations and reduce costs, thereby securing a competitive edge. Our approach accelerates client progress towards a technologically advanced future, utilizing both leading vendor solutions and proprietary Deloitte software products, tools, and accelerators.

The Platforms & Infrastructure practice is a key part of the Cloud Engineering offering. Infrastructure plays an ever-increasing role in data center business-critical applications and is crucial to supporting operations and reliability. Our practitioners help clients optimize their infrastructure and guide them through a transformative journey that enables the adoption of technology-based disruptors such as Hybrid Cloud, Machine Learning and IoT (Internet of Things) in their business.

Work you’ll do

As a member of our team, you will collaborate with Practitioners and Professionals from diverse fields within our consulting practices as well as from our client organizations. Through these engagements, you will gain exposure to a variety of technologies, providing you with the opportunity to become an expert and broaden your skillset into new areas. Our practitioners lead and support technical teams in designing, building, and deploying cloud solutions across public, private, and hybrid environments. They are responsible for owning and delivering specific outcomes, while effectively managing relationships with various clients and stakeholders.

Qualifications

Candidate should meet the requirements from at least one of the focus areas below:

Focus Area: Network Engineer

• Over 5 years of experience in enterprise networking technologies with a comprehensive understanding of:
• Experience with Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN and Palo Alto ION 1200 devices is a must.
• Experience with Juniper wireless and Juniper access layer switches is preferred.
• Experience with other vendors' SD-WAN solutions is good to have but not required.
• Layer 2 protocols, including ARP, 802.1Q, DTP, VTP, and Spanning Tree
• Layer 3 protocols, such as BGP, multi-area OSPF routing domains, and protocol redistribution
• Layer 4-7 technologies, encompassing TCP, Load-Balancers, Firewalls, and DNS
• Possession of advanced network certifications, such as CCIE, CCNP, or equivalent vendor-specific certifications
• At least 5 years of relevant consulting or industry experience, including large-scale, enterprise-class consulting or systems integration
• Ability to travel up to 75%
  
  

Focus Area: Network Security Engineer

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant consulting or industry experience, particularly in large-scale, enterprise-class consulting or systems integration
• Network security certifications at an expert or professional level, such as CCIE: Security, FCE, JNCIE-SEC, CCNP: Security, PCNSE, JNCIP-SEC, FCP, or equivalent vendor certifications
• Experience with compliance standards implementation, enforcement, and reporting, including SOX, PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, DFARS, etc.
• Strong understanding of security protocols, including Dot1X, TACACS, RADIUS, SSL/TLS, IKEv1, and IKEv2
• Proven experience in architecting, deploying, and supporting security architectures such as Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Intrusion Prevention/Detection Systems (IPS/IDS), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB), and Network Access Control (NAC)
• Ability to develop, define, and enforce IT system protection policies
• Ability to travel up to 75%
  
  

Focus Area: Wireless Network Engineer

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant consulting or industry experience, specifically in large-scale, enterprise-class consulting or systems integration
• Expert or professional-level wireless certifications, such as CCIE: EW, CWNE, CWISE, CWIxxP, CWxP, Aruba ACMX, or ACP
• Experience in planning, executing, and documenting comprehensive multi-floor wireless site surveys
• Strong understanding of RF technologies
• Proven skills in designing and validating the quality and performance of RF links.
• Prior experience in architecting, planning, and deploying large-scale wireless networks
• Ability to travel up to 75%
  
  

Preferred

• Demonstrated expertise across all project phases, including planning, building, testing, and transitioning solutions to meet project objectives
• Extensive experience in installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and supporting networking equipment, with direct hands-on keyboard experience
• Proficiency in documenting and explaining network topologies to a wide range of audiences
• Knowledgeable about network security devices such as next-generation firewalls and intrusion prevention systems, with a deep understanding of their applications and integration within enterprise network segmentation initiatives
• Possession of Network Security certifications (e.g., Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco, Checkpoint, VMware) is advantageous
• Comprehensive knowledge of the advantages of spine-leaf networks compared to traditional 3-tier architectures, including an understanding of network overlays using protocols like VXLAN
• Experience with enterprise network monitoring platforms, capable of deriving actionable insights from reports to support proposed solutions
• Solid grasp of public cloud benefits and the provisioning of private networks, with proven experience in connecting enterprise networks to public cloud environments through leased lines or VPNs
• Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle) are beneficial
• Strong understanding of the benefits provided by software-defined networking and network orchestration, with experience in designing and deploying SD-WAN being a plus
• Ability to develop and test virtual networks for proof-of-concept projects that demonstrate industry-leading practices
• Knowledge of application transport and network infrastructure protocols (DNS, DHCP, IPAM, SSL/TLS, WINS, NTP, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, LDAP, and Microsoft AD)
• Familiarity with enterprise wireless controllers and various access point deployment strategies
• Skilled in network traffic analysis using tools like Wireshark, tcpdump, and iperf for troubleshooting connectivity and performance issues
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins) and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform) to facilitate network automation adoption is a plus
• Familiarity with API interactions and the ability to understand common data models and markup languages such as YANG and JSON, aiding in customer interactions with networks programmatically
• Involvement in assisting senior leadership to design technology and process landscapes, and develop comprehensive solution strategies
• Proven track record of migrating legacy network environments to modern configurations in phased approaches to minimize downtime and mitigate risks
• Capability to create essential materials for client workshops and interactive customer sessions
• Excellent articulation, communication skills, and strong interpersonal capabilities
• Engagement in transformation initiatives for medium to large-scale organizations
• Experience in deploying data center virtualization and compute environments, including software-defined networking and hyper-converged infrastructure
  
  

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Education:

B.E./B. Tech/M.C.A./M.Sc (CS) degree or equivalent from accredited university

Prior Experience:

6 - 8 Years Of Experience

Location:

Bengaluru/Hyderabad

The team

Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Technology Consulting practice is dedicated to helping our clients build tomorrow by solving today’s complex business problems involving strategy, procurement, design, delivery, and assurance of technology solutions. Our service areas include analytics and information management, delivery, cyber risk services, and technical strategy and architecture, as well as the spectrum of digital strategy, design, and development services. Core Business Operations Practice optimizes clients’ business operations and helps them take advantage of new technologies. Drives product and service innovation, improves financial performance, accelerates speed to market, and operates client platforms to innovate continuously. Learn more about our Technology Consulting practice on www.deloitte.com.

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From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to build new skills, take on leadership opportunities and connect and grow through mentorship. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career.

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