NetScout Engineer
- Montreal, QC, Canada
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Position Name – NetScout Engineer
Type of hiring – Subcon
Location – Montreal, QC (Preferred) or Brampton, ON
Job Description:
NetScout NG1 Dashboard Configuration
- KPI selection (health, latency, errors, utilization), role‑based views, alerting policies, and baseline reports.
Traffic Aggregation Enablement (NetScout ↔ Gigamon)
- Design & configure Gigamon maps/filters, VLAN/port assignments, and feed definitions to NetScout probes; validate load balancing and failover behaviors.
Design Governance: EDS & DDP
- Author/update Engineering Design Specification (EDS) and Detail Design Plan (DDP); align L2/L3 connectivity, routing, security, and acceptance criteria.
Remote Installation Validation
- Verify contractor installs against EDS/DDP (fillers, switch configs, SPAN/TAPs, cabling, VLANs, access controls); issue remediation actions and sign‑off.
Virtual Site Audit
- Assess OBB, IPMI/iDRAC, storage, and interconnect ports among probes, NG1, and aggregators; consolidate port maps and access inventories.
Firmware & Application Updates (Prod + Lab)
- Upgrade NetScout NG1 and Gigamon to approved versions; execute rollback plans, health checks, and stability monitoring.
Network Diagram Refresh
- Produce clear physical/logical/data‑flow diagrams (Visio/draw.io + PDF) showing taps/SPANs, aggregator maps, probe feeds, NG1 management, and user access.
Testing & Acceptance
- Functional ingest/decoding tests, dashboard verification, performance checks; conduct UAT with defect tracking and remediation.
Operational Automation
- Automate provisioning, configuration, health checks, alarms, reporting, backups, and compliance using NetScout APIs.
AI, LLM & MCP Integration
- Integrate approved AI/LLM and MCP tools for natural-language queries, alarm summaries, troubleshooting, and dashboard generation with secure access controls.
Inventory Reconciliation
- Reconcile NetScout configurations with inventory data to identify missing, duplicate, stale, or inconsistent devices, interfaces, IPs, sites, and services.
Automated Inventory Synchronization
- Automate approved inventory changes into NetScout with validation, audit logging, failure alerts, and rollback.
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Responsibilities
Configure and maintain NetScout NG1 dashboards, probes, and Gigamon traffic aggregation, while producing design documentation and validating installations, network diagrams, upgrades, and system acceptance. Automate operational workflows and inventory synchronization, and integrate approved AI/LLM and MCP tools with secure access controls.
Requirements
The role calls for mid-to-senior-level expertise in NetScout NG1, Gigamon, network connectivity, traffic monitoring, and system validation. It also requires the ability to create engineering design documents and diagrams, automate configuration and inventory processes, and support secure AI/LLM integrations; no formal education requirement is stated.
Skills
- NetScout NG1 Configuration
- Gigamon Traffic Aggregation
- Network Monitoring
- KPI Dashboard Configuration
- Network Design Documentation
- L2/L3 Connectivity
- Network Troubleshooting
- Firmware Upgrades
- Network Diagramming
- Functional Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- API Automation
- AI/LLM Integration
- Inventory Reconciliation
- Configuration Management
- Change Auditing
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Categories
- Technology
- Engineering
- Software
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- NetScout NG1
- Gigamon
- Network Monitoring
- Dashboard Configuration
- Key Performance Indicators
- Latency
- Error Monitoring
- Utilization
- Traffic Aggregation
- Network Probes
- VLAN
- L2/L3 Connectivity
- Routing
- Engineering Design Specification
- Detail Design Plan
- SPAN
- TAP
- IPMI
- iDRAC
- Firmware Upgrades
- Network Diagrams
- Functional Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- NetScout APIs
- AI
- Large Language Models
- Model Context Protocol
- Inventory Reconciliation
- Audit Logging
- Rollback Planning