SDN/OpenDayLight Architect

The position will have the responsibility of developing and delivering network architectures and design involving Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies to drive network agility and operational efficiencies

Responsibilities:

The core responsibilities for this position will include:

Develop SDN/NFV architecture to support network evolution and future network automation and programmability

Interact with cross functional DEV/OPS & Products teams to define and automation & programmability into the network evolution, future products and services.

Assess vendor offerings related to network centralized control and orchestration, network virtualization

Recommend vendor and open source solutions related to SDN and NFV

Define use cases and document business advantages and justifications related to SDN and NFV deployments

Prototype architecture to demonstrate conceptual operation and assess technical feasibility

Develop software and orchestration technology design and strategy for next generation services

Analyze networking and software technologies and vendors to support service requirements

Provide thought leadership, strategy and lead innovation by exploring, investigating, recommending, benchmarking and implementing technologies for SDN and service orchestration

Desired Skills and Experience

The ideal candidate has extensive technology and design experience involving Software Development, Networking Protocols, Ethernet transport, Networking Orchestration, OpenStack and Virtual/Cloud Network Architectures. Candidate needs to have proven experience in: Application Development Agile methodology, related to network orchestration, service delivery (configuration and provisioning), Network Virtualization, Security and Data Center architecture, Cloud Platform deployment involving infrastructure management, service orchestration and instantiation, and business logic integration.

This candidate should have 6+ years architecting cloud solutions, including underlying infrastructure technologies (compute, storage, and network)

Direct work experience involving LAN and WAN network design, data center architecture, Cloud concepts and operation

Working experience with LINUX (RedHat/Suse/Debian/Ubuntu/BSD)

Programming in C, C++, JAVA, shell, Perl, Python, CGI, ASP, PHP, VB,.NET a plus

Highly proficient and hands on experience in the following inter networking technologies IGP (OSPF/ISIS), MBGP/BGP, Multicast, MPLS, L2VPN (VPLS,EVPN), L3VPN,,L2 switching, TCP/IP, IPv6, VXLAN, Openflow

Open Stack Networking (Neutron) plug-in / OpenStack Heat Integration, Cloudify, OPNFV,ONOS

Knowledge of security and enterprise architecture

Expert level knowledge of Layer-2 and Layer 3 network technologies

Software development experience, including API development (REST, XML, etc.) and SOA methodology

Experience using SCRUM agile development methodology

Knowledge related to designing and operating virtualized environment for compute and storage

Bachelors Degree in Engineering or Technical Discipline