City : Brampton, Ontario

Category : IT Infrastructure

Industry : Information Technology

Employer : Cognizant

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Role overview

We are seeking a Network Cloud Engineer to join our dynamic team!! The ideal candidate will have extensive expertise in Cisco SDWAN, Azure Networking Services, Cisco ISE, Terraform, Ansible, Wireless Networking, Cisco Switching & Routing, Nexus, Google Cloud - Networking Wireshark and Cisco Catalyst SDWAN (Viptela). This role involves crafting implementing and leading sophisticated network solutions to support our global operations

What you’ll do

• Design, Implement, Build & manage cloud (Azure and Google) infrastructures.
• Develop the design for new infrastructure builds, re architecting the existing infrastructure.
• Develop and run Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible.
• Build & Manage Server, storage, and network devices and provisioning monitoring in the cloud services.
• Use Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate network provisioning and management.
• Implement and handle network automation using Ansible to streamline operations and reduce manual tasks.
• Lead the design and deployment of AWS Networking solutions to support scalable and secure cloud environments.
• Lead and optimize Wireless Networking solutions using Juniper MIST technologies to ensure reliable and high-performance wireless connectivity.
• Configure and maintain Cisco Switching (Nesus) & Routing solutions to support efficient and secure data flow across the network.
• Design and implement Google Cloud Networking solutions to support hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

What you bring to the role

• A solid foundation of networking concepts and understanding of OCI model.
• Requires 8-12 years of cloud networking services and components, such as Azure Virtual Network, GCP VPC, load balancers, firewalls, and DNS or equivalent experience.
• Required experience in building and handling hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity solutions,including VPNs, Direct Connect, Express Route, and inter-cloud connectivity using IaC tools like Ansible/Terraform.
• Experience in monitoring, optimizing, and troubleshooting cloud network performance.
• Working experience with Cloud Native Networking technologies.
• Working proficiency in cloud and hybrid-cloud implementations including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

Working arrangements

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is an Onsite position requiring 5 days a week in a client office in Brampton, ON. Canada. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a balanced work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

Note: The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.