Experience supporting, maintaining, and Deploying Cisco, Alcatel, Dell and Aruba equipment.
Experience in tracing end users remotely and Network device power requirements.
Experience in structure cabling technologies and data centre methodologies.
The engineer must have experience in large scale wireless deployment, maintenance, and support.
Conduct wireless site surveys utilising spectrum analysis technologies, recommend and implement corrective action.
Perform wireless site surveys, conduct site evaluations, and generate Heat Maps utilising Ekahau Survey Pro and Air Magnet Survey.
Basic Knowledge about servers (Wintel and Linux and virtualisation).
Experience tracking and understanding the Cisco and Alcatel security vulnerability reports and providing the SW/ HW bug fixes.
Experience using L1 network tools such as Cable tester (fibre and copper) for troubleshooting.
Experience working with Cisco N9K, C-3560, C-4500, C-3650, C-6500, C9300, and Alcatel 6K switches.
Experience working with Cisco WLC 8500, 5500, Alcatel WLC 4550, 4750XM, AOS 8. x version.
Experience dealing with Cisco/Alcatel TAC case escalation and issue reporting.
Have substantial experience working with extensive enterprise support and maintenance of LAN/WLAN infrastructure.
Proficient in IP subnet, OSI layers, PBR, OSPF, BGP, STP, VTP, SNMP, QoS, HSRP, VPC, VRF, VSS, DNS, DHCP, NAC, LAN Security, 802.1x Auth, SSL/TLS, 802.11, RADIUS, TACACS+, Linux, and Microsoft OS is a must.
Proficient in using network analyser/sniffing tools such as Sniffer, Wireshark, and Ethereal for troubleshooting network issues. Understand and troubleshoot problems using packet dumps/traces produced by such tools.
Experience in Syslog message extraction and co-relation techniques.