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.
