10 years of related experience operating at scale in a production environment
Strong knowledge of network protocols, including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, EVPN, VXLAN, QoS and MPLS-related technologies like RSVP-TE, LDP, etc
Strong understanding of network monitoring protocols and tools like SNMP, IPFIX, Sflow/netflow, and Telemetry
Familiarity with data center, backbone and edge network architecture and implementations
Exposure to scripting, coding or programming — Python or similar languages — to automate operational tasks and build tooling to operate efficiently at scale
Hands-on experience with major network devices like Mellanox, Cisco, Arista, Juniper, and other mainstream vendors
Familiar with mainstream commercial switch/router chipsets, such as Broadcom, Barefoot, etc
Knowledge of public cloud architecture connectivity options to AWS, GCP, Azure, Ali Cloud, OCI, etc
Good understanding of IPv6 and IPv4-IPv6 coexistence technologies
Experience with network observability, flow analytics, dashboarding tools like NSG, Kentik, Grafana, Arbor, Thousand eyes, Catch point, packet design etc
Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree based on three or more years of work experience
Familiarity with BackEnd technologies like Infiniband (IB) / RoCE / Spectrum-X will be a plus