Job Description

The candidate should have around 7-10 years of relevant Infrastructure experience with excellent hands on experience on Velocloud SDWAN and Cisco Routing Technologies. The other Technologies involved in this role are as mentioned below.
Experience/Domain Knowledge needed:
Primary Skills (L2+ / L3 Level expertise - mandatory requirement):

• Velocloud SDWAN - Primary skill
• Cisco Routing / Switching - Primary skill

Secondary Skills (Secondary skills - good to have):

• Virtualisation (VMWare / Nutanix)
• Checkpoint Firewalls
• AWS / Azure Cloud Technologies

Responsibilities: * Support with Design and Consulting activities for the global Velocloud SDWAN solution in Allianz.

• Support with Build and upgrade activities for the SDWAN solution.
• Provide L2+ / L3 level Escalation Operational support for the SDWAN solution.
• Interact with Customers for understanding and supporting their requirements with SDWAN deployment.
• Owning and supporting SDWAN migrations of Customer locations from Legacy WAN solutions to the Centralised Global SDWAN solution.
• Incident / Change and Problem Management support for the Global SDWAN solution.
• Working closely with Vendors (e.g. Velocloud) for escalated issues until resolution.
• Collaborating with Architecture, Engineering and various internal and external delivery and support teams for ensuring Optimal support for the Allianz SDWAN solution.
• Proactively managing client engagement, technology lifecycle development, and planning and coordinating with various internal and external stakeholders
• Analysing, evaluating, and communicating network capacity and performance data with the objective of driving improvements to customer networks.
• Creating presentations and demonstrations related to technology, process, or client solutions as necessary.
• Support the Information Security Officer and the Audit Units for periodic Audits / PT on the SDWAN solution
• Documentation of infrastructure design, procedures and processes as part of Operational support activities.
• Mentoring and provide Technical guidance for the L2 and L1 SDWAN Operations teams, as needed.

Qualifications

• The candidate should have around 7-10 years of relevant Infrastructure experience with excellent hands on experience on Velocloud SDWAN and Cisco Routing Technologies.
• B Tech Computer Engineering/E&C/MCA/BSc/MSc Computer Science /IT
• Infrastructure certifications
• Excellent Communication and Presentation skills
• A fundamental grasp of AI tools will be an added benefit.

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.
At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.
Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.
Note: Having different strengths, experiences, perspectives and approaches is an integral part of Allianz' company culture. One means to achieve this is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.

Skills Required