Required Skills:

* Hands-on experience with networks including physical layer infrastructure, Cisco-based LAN, WAN, IPT, WLS, Firewall hardware (Cisco & Checkpoint), F5 Load Balancing, SNMP based software, and interconnecting devices

* Proven knowledge and practical application of network security across firewalls

* Working knowledge of VM Environments (VMware, Nutanix)

* TCP expert/Application performance expert

* F5 Load-balancers

* BlueCoat

* Checkpoint Firewalls

* Cisco TACACS

* Cisco ASA Firewalls with multiple contexts, and failover configurations

* Cisco Catalyst 6500s, 4500s, 9300s

* Cisco Nexus 9000/7000/5000/2000 products

* Cisco VSS/VPC