Anand Iyer

This is the current skillset required by the companies. Current network engineer skilset required Firewall: ASA, Palo alto, checkpoint, fortinet and Barracuda Load balancer: F5, A10, netscaler Azure Cloud: Azure networking, azure firewall, Vnet ACI: Leaf and spine switches, APIC controller WAF: Fortinet, barracuda Cisco Nexus data center: 2K, 5K, 9K switches NSX: Firewall and load balancer AWS: Route S3 aviatrix cloud sd wan: cisco viptela, versa sd wan, aruba sd wan Routing Switching: TCP/IP,subnetting, VLANs, STP, OSPF, BGP, DNS, NAT, VPNs, packet flow and Wireshark, Cisco Viptela SD WAN, Versa SD WAN, Prisma SD WAN,Cisco DNAC, Cisco ISE, Cisco Meraki, juniper, nokia Network Security: Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco NGFW, Segmentation, zero trust, SASE, ZTNA, IPS/IDS. Palo alto alone is now a baseline expectation in most security job posting, not a bonus skill Application Delivery: F5 BIG-IP LTM, WAF, DNS/GTM, SSL Offloading, load balancing, reverse proxy, persistence, health monitors Cloud and Hybrid infrastructure: AWS, Azure, VPC/Vnet, cloud networking, cloud firewalls, WAF Automation & Devnetops: Python, Ansible, Terraform, Git, APIs, postman, JSON/YAML, CI/CD basics Observability and troubleshooting: Wireshark, tcpdump, splunk, ELK, Grafana, netflow, logs, packet captures, root cause analysis Realistic Expectation from yourself Routing Switching: CCNA or Juniper(JNCIA), CCNP, Cisco Viptela SD WAN , Cisco ISE Network Security: Palo alto or WAF Application Delivery: F5 or Netscaler Cloud: AWS, cloud networking Automation & Devnetops: Python Data center: nexus switch, ACI and APIC

0 votes · 19 hours ago

Companies are asking for hands on experience I would 60 to 70 percent of companies are only asking for hands on experience, there are only 30 percent companies who are ready to hire people.

0 votes · 19 hours ago