About the Role:
Primarily involves managing, configuring and troubleshooting Citrix NetScaler load-balancer also ensuring the efficient delivery of applications, maintaining high availability, optimizing performance, securing application traffic, supporting enterprise infrastructure, monitoring performance and implementing best practices for load balancing.
Responsibilities:
1. Configuration and management
- Understanding of NetScaler features like load balancing, content switching, global server load balancing (GSLB) and SSL Offloading.
- Experience with configuring virtual servers, services, and service group
- Knowledge of Citrix NetScaler Licensing and editions,
2. Network Basics:
- Strong grasp of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and Layer 4/7 concepts.
- Familiarity with Vlans, subnets, routing and switching.
- Experience with troubleshooting network connectivity issue
3. Monitoring and Troubleshooting:
- Using tools like NetScaler insight c enter logs, and analytics for performance monitoring
- Troubleshooting issue related to service outages, traffic flow and connectivity.
- Analyse logs and metrics to identify and resolve issue.
4. Automation and Scripting:
- Familiarity with Citrix APIs
- Scripting Knowledge in PowerShell, Python or any automation tools like terraform.
5. Documentation and Reporting:
- Maintain detailed documentation of configurations, Policies, and procedures.
Key skills and experience required:
- Understanding of NetScaler features like load balancing, content switching, global server load balancing (GSLB) and SSL Offloading.
- Experience with configuring virtual servers, services, and service group
- Knowledge of Citrix NetScaler Licensing and editions,
- Strong grasp of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and Layer 4/7 concepts.
- Familiarity with Vlans, subnets, routing and switching.
- Configuration of SSL certificates (creation, installation, renewal)
- Good understanding of Firewalls (PaloAlto, Checkpoint, ASA)
- Experience in Proxy (bluecoat, Zscaler)
- Hand on experience in DNS
- Good understanding of network infrastructure (Routing, Switches)
