SR QA Engineer 10297 – Networking (Wired/Wireless) | Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) | Python at Extreme Networks
Chennai
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Jul 15, 2026
Chennai
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A technical role focused on triaging, reproducing, and resolving complex networking and cloud infrastructure issues in large-scale or production environments. The work spans wired and wireless networking protocols, cloud platforms, containerized systems, and security concepts, with an emphasis on root cause analysis, observability, and building automation or AI-assisted debugging tools. Suits engineers with 4–8 years of hands-on experience across networking and cloud stacks who are comfortable coding in Python or Java.
Mid level · 4+ years · National
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $136,998 (middle half $106,921–$171,899).
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Why we read it this way (8)
The posting lists no location, so CBSA and state are left blank. The role may be remote or office-based — this could not be determined from the text.
The experience range of 4–8 years spans Mid to Senior; the lower bound (4) was used for the overall years minimum. The scope (field/customer issue triage, large-scale production environments) is consistent with a Mid-to-Senior individual contributor; Mid was chosen as the conservative band.
The wired networking protocols (VLAN, STP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, VRRP, IS-IS, SPBM) and Enterprise Wireless LAN testing are presented as an OR gate — either track satisfies the requirement. Both sets are marked required since the posting frames them as alternative paths to the same hard gate, not optional extras.
RabbitMQ and Kafka are listed together as 'cloud middleware' — they are distinct tools used alongside each other in this context, but the posting names them as a paired requirement so they are emitted as one skill with Kafka as an alternative.
Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Loki are listed as interchangeable observability tool examples ('such as'); Prometheus is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
The SOC classification is Low confidence. This role blends deep network validation/testing (closer to 15-1244 or 15-1253), cloud infrastructure engineering (15-1252), and field/customer issue triage (15-1299). No single SOC cleanly captures all dimensions; 15-1244 was chosen because network protocol expertise and infrastructure troubleshooting dominate the requirements list.
Certifications (CCNA, CWNA/CWSP, CompTIA Security+, cloud certs) are listed under 'Good to have' and are not emitted as skills since they are not named technologies or tools.
AI & automation tools for debugging are mentioned as a requirement but name no specific product, so no skill entry was created for that item.
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