New job interview is approaching.

GOZCU

Hello everyone.


I am happily announcing my new oncoming interview. It will be next week. It is Support Analyst III and the required qualifications are :








At least 3 years experience in implementing, day to day operations, troubleshooting, maintaining/ upgrading SW with Networking products


LAN/ WAN, MPLS Support


Experience with Cisco switches and routers a must


Nexus experience a plus


Firewall experience a must. ASA Firewalls a plus


Lan to Lan VPN configuration/ troubleshooting


NAT/ PAT


Juniper Netscreen SSG Firewalls


Experience working in an ASP/Hosting environment a big plus.


Routing Protocols:


OSPF, EIGRP a plus to have.


Not required but a nice to have:


CCNP certification a big plus


Content Services Switch Load balancer


Cisco ACE Load balancer or Citrix Netscaler


Riverbed Steelhead


Orion network monitor


I see the requirements a little bit untidy. Especially it gives a feeling about "everything about networking" : Especially about routing & switching" and " security". I may have very well knowledge about some of them while have a little about others. However I am eager to learn and contribute effort as much as i can. Tuesday will be the first interview ( i hope will not be the last one with this company). what are your opinions ?

yuddhidhtir

Best of luck for your interview

paul78

Usually whenever I see job requirements like this, my expectation is that the prospective employer is seeking someone with general expertise in broad categories. I am guessing more of a goto person for a smaller enterprise. Or a support person that can help with triage and bring on specialized engineers. It sounds like a neat way to be exposed to lots of different technology.

You probably ought to emphasize your capability to learn. I suspect that because of the tech diversity in the job, having good troubleshooting skills with an entire ecosystem will be important.

Good luck on the interview.

m3zilla

paul78 wrote: »

Usually whenever I see job requirements like this, my expectation is that the prospective employer is seeking someone with general expertise in broad categories. .

I would agree with you if I saw server related stuff in there, but this seems pretty normal for a network position.

I work for a enterprise level company, and we're expected to support everything the OP listed minus the Juniper stuff. We have a relatively large/complex network, and make use of all the items on that list (riverbed, CSS/ACE, ASA/CheckPoints), and we need to be able to troubleshoot end to end connectivity.

kurosaki00

m3zilla wrote: »

I would agree with you if I saw server related stuff in there, but this seems pretty normal for a network position.

I work for a enterprise level company, and we're expected to support everything the OP listed minus the Juniper stuff. We have a relatively large/complex network, and make use of all the items on that list (riverbed, CSS/ACE, ASA/CheckPoints), and we need to be able to troubleshoot end to end connectivity.

Agree
All the descriptions seem to point to good networking
Im having that exact issue here in Indy
Ive seen some positions that are good Network wise then suddenly... bam 2 years of SQL and Xenapp experience
what!?
but yeah....

I wish you success with that interview mate!

paul78

Interesting... I guess I am used to different IT org structures. In the enterprises that I am familiar, network engineers do not touch security devices. And WAN and LAN engineering are separate teams. Just goes to show that there are lots of different ways to organize IT teams

networkjutsu

In smaller environments, the Network Engineer would touch network security devices. However, I am seeing more and more companies breaking down the IT silos. They want their Network Engineer to be more broad - wireless, firewalls or UTMs, routing & switching, load balancers, and etc. No, these are not small companies - these are in the top 50 of Fortune 500 and some in the 300s. However, there are still a lot of companies out there that are still highly specialized.

Jackace

This is how every networking job in my area is listed. This is the wish list of things they want. The job I'm interviewing with right now had 3 pages of desired qualifications listed. I only knew about half the stuff and I made it through the initial phone interview just fine. I have learned that you should always apply if you meet a decent amount of the qualifications. Many employers will at least give you an interview. Congrats on the interview and good luck.

ChickenNuggetz

Jackace wrote: »

This is how every networking job in my area is listed. This is the wish list of things they want. The job I'm interviewing with right now had 3 pages of desired qualifications listed. I only knew about half the stuff and I made it through the initial phone interview just fine. I have learned that you should always apply if you meet a decent amount of the qualifications. Many employers will at least give you an interview. Congrats on the interview and good luck.

This is very true. I'll add that even if you lack the knowledge is some/certain areas, being honest and forthcoming in the interview and showing a desire to learn and grow professionally will often more than make up for the lack of knowledge in the eyes of many prospective employers.

Good luck with the interview, OP!

GOZCU

hi, interview was today. however technical interview will take place in 2 weeks. today was about more personality and the company itself. it was almost perfect in my opinion.

Scsmartt

best of luck to you on your technical interview