Principal Network Engineer

The Role: Principal Network Engineer The Team: Network Security Tools & Engineering Team The Location: Hyderabad (India) Grade : 11 The Team : S&P provides the data and analytics required for every single day decisions in the capital and financial markets. The role is into Data Center, Campus & Cloud Engineering team which is a part of S&P’s Digital Technology Group (DTS). DTS is leading the company’s Digital Transformation journey. This team works across the company - building scalable, end-to-end network services for future business needs. DTS delivers the services, applications, and websites that every S&P employee, clients utilize in some part of their work – Live Dashboards such as best known for the popular and often citied S&P 500 Index, Application connectivity, Consoles, Database Replication, Expense time & absence reporting - to name a few. Role and Responsibilities: As a Senior/Principal Network Engineer: The focus of this position is to design and deploy infrastructure solutions that provide the underpinning for network and application connectivity in a multi-ISP, multi-DC ,multi Cloud environments (Akamai, Azure, AWS, Cloudflare, Alibaba) that enables our customers to achieve maximum productivity and success. Planning, designing of Corporate Firewalls architecture and implementing in distributed environment. In-depth experience with any of the Security Policy Automation Tools , Enterprise Proxy Technologies ,Firewall devices -configuration , management , engineering experience. Use the latest technologies, tools & techniques, approaches, and work with leading minds in the industry to build, implement solutions and integrate with existing legacy technology- solutions you can be proud of. Adapt in a dynamic environment, work with tight timelines for infra deployments and readiness. Collaborate with CFTs through open communication and collaboration during product life-cycle testing, development with in-depth understanding on Infrastructure as Code, Application Architecture, Automation, Project Delivery, Environment Troubleshooting towards successful roll-out of the application, product. Work with multiple teams including product, Cloud, Infra, Security, Service/PMO, OEMs in driving continuous improvements in network, automation, platform innovation and usability. Provide mentorship, training, and insight to other teammates especially to Operations with high-Level Design documentation ensuring KT with efficient handovers. Participate in P1/P2 outage calls as required providing support to Operations for quick mitigation / resolution of the outage. Help teams on complex problems requiring in-depth fault analysis and troubleshooting to understand traffic / connectivity flow with a mix of debugging, networking, tools administration including OEM support. Provide complete infra services lifecycle for the customers- Plan, Design, Implementation, Migration and Optimization. What’s in it for you: This is an excellent opportunity to join S&P Global. You will be part of a world class Engineering team working in a fast-paced and agile environment with technology curious and enthusiasts from diverse backgrounds architecting various solutions for business requirements within different product offerings of S&P Global, used by tens of thousands of users globally. The team is responsible for ensuring solutions that deliver Greater Reliability & Resilience, High Performance, High Availability and Scalability. In this role, you will be part of DTS Global team with tremendous opportunity to grow personally and professionally. The chance to work on enterprise level products and new technologies is presented constantly. Our technology is continuously evolving, ensuring that you are always learning new skills and facing new challenges. Your growth potential is endless. Enjoy working with financial services technologists and partners. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building network & cloud infra solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers and partners. Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, related field, or equivalent practical experience. 10+ years of experience developing enterprise level network solutions. Experience in configuring, implementing and troubleshooting network topologies in a complex environment with extensive experience in the analysis, assessment, development, and evaluation of security solutions and architectures to secure applications and networks. Assists in the development of network security requirements, assists in technical regulatory compliance efforts, evaluates security services and technologies, and reviews and documents information security policies and procedures as well as provides monitoring and oversight for alerts in the environment and/or overseeing network QA testing or network regression testing. 10+ years of in-depth experience with hands on experience with configuring & management of firewalls of Multi - vendor platforms such as Cisco, Palo Alto , Checkpoint, Fortinet -Fortinet is preferred. Knowledge on F5 LoadBalancer domain LTM, GTM domains. Bluecoat (Web/Socks proxy), ZScaler Proxy solution. Management, investigating and troubleshooting traffic and user access, log management, tune devices to get utmost performance eliminating vulnerabilities and install new security patches. Knowledge in routing protocols-BGP, OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP In-depth knowledge of Remote access technologies including IPsec, GRE, DMVPN, SSL VPNs. Work experience with protocol level understanding of Switching technologies - VLAN, STP (all types), LACP, EtherChannel, VPC, VXLAN, HSRP and VRRP. Knowledge on Data Center switching -Cisco Nexus & ACI, Arista. Work experience in SDWAN. Work experience with MPLS overlay environments which include multi VRF, L3VPN & L2VPN network with expert level knowledge of analyzing packet captures & Protocol analysis. Work experience on system resource utilization, traffic trends / pattern, Bandwidth & capacity planning. Work experience Radius, TACACS+, Cisco ISE, WLAN, Fortinet Firewalls, F5 LoadBalancers is an advantage. Knowledge on automation tools -Itential, Ansible orchestration is an advantage. Knowledge on Cloud technologies-AWS, Azure is an advantage. Soft Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills. Team player who enjoys a mix of autonomy and collaboration-based delivery Ability to manage multiple priorities, commitments, and projects. Ability to influence, lead, and drive consensus amongst CFT’s. Self-motivated, able to self-drive customer requirements and prioritize work. Create and maintain knowledge base articles to prevent & resolve similar issues quickly Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment. About Company Statement: S&P Global delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world’s leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. As part of our team, you’ll help solve complex challenges that equip businesses, governments and individuals with the knowledge to adapt to a changing economic landscape. S&P Global Engineering Solutions solves for tomorrow’s challenges today by transforming workflows and end-user experiences with data, insights and technology. ----------------------------------------------------------- Equal Opportunity Employer S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment. If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.  US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law. ----------------------------------------------------------- 20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), IFTECH202.2 - Middle Professional Tier II (EEO Job Group) Job ID: 272012 Posted On: 2022-05-28 Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India