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ESM Network Management Lead – Innovation & Technical Strategy
Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Staff / Principal
5 days ago
$64 / hour
- Network Security
- Cisco
- ITIL
- MPLS
- SD-WAN
- BGP
- OSPF
- EIGRP
- QoS
- IPSec
- SSL
- VPC
- Zscaler
- F5
- Juniper
- Fortinet
- DNS
- AWS
- Azure
- Splunk
- Wireshark
- PagerDuty
- Nagios
- Grafana
- Zabbix
5 days ago
Key Responsibilities:
- Function as Network Innovation / Technical Lead.
- Lead innovation initiatives, projects, POVs, and POCs in the network domain.
- Collaborate with the network team to identify challenges and opportunities.
- Create business cases for initiatives, including project plans, cost, and benefits.
- Provide implementation strategies, migration plans, and technical support for complex projects.
- Conduct market research on the latest network technologies and tools.
- Recommend network solutions by creating POVs.
- Drive innovation within the team and participate in Innovation Council processes.
- Work closely with Product Owners and Managers to align with strategic roadmaps.
- Identify transformation, process improvement, and automation opportunities.
- Collaborate with customers, infrastructure teams, and vendors such as Cisco and Palo Alto.
- Manage executive and technical-level communications to build credibility and trust.
- Solve complex network issues using internal and external resources.
- Ensure compliance with ITIL processes.
- 7+ years of experience in ESM Network Management.
- Strong expertise in switching & routing technologies (Cisco LAN, WAN, WLAN, Client).
- Experience in WAN technologies (MPLS, Viptela SDWAN, P2P, VRF, SONET, DWDM, WAN Optimization).
- Deep knowledge of network protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VRF, HSRP, PIM, QoS, GRE Tunnel, IPSEC VPNs, SSL, DMVPN).
- Hands-on experience with LAN switching technologies (ACI, SDA, DNAC, VXLAN, VSS, VPC, VLAN, VTP).
- Strong understanding of network security (Zscaler, Blue Coat, McAfee Proxy, MFA, IPS, IDS, Pulse Secure).
- Experience with F5 Load Balancers (GTM & LTM).
- Expertise in firewalls (Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Juniper, Checkpoint, Fortinet).
- Hands-on experience with Infoblox for IPAM and DNS.
- Knowledge of traffic prioritization technologies (QoS, TOS, COS, LLQ, CBWFQ, WFQ, Shaping, Policing, MPLS-VPN QoS).
- Experience with multi-tenant cloud technologies (AWS, Azure).
- Strong skills in log & packet analysis (Splunk, Sentinel, Wireshark).
- Experience with monitoring & alerting tools (Cisco DNAC, Cisco Client, PagerDuty, Data Dog, Thousand Eyes, Nagios, VManage, Netscout, Grafana, Zabbix, Site24x7).
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
- Experience in developing and executing innovation strategies aligned with company goals.
- Ability to mentor teams, delegate tasks, and drive innovation.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
ESM Network Management Lead – Innovation & Technical Strategy · Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited