Senior Network Cloud Testing Engineer (hybrid)

Req ID: 340702 

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

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

We are currently seeking a Sr Network Cloud Testing Engineer to join our team in Alpharetta, GA.

- 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. 

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