Gigamon Engineer

Gigamon Engineer

Role overview

A Gigamon Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, and operating Gigamon

visibility/packet broker platforms that provide traffic to security, monitoring, and

performance tools in enterprise or service provider networks. The role often includes

acting as a subject matter expert to optimize traffic flows, filters, and policies for security

and NOC teams.

Key responsibilities

Design and implement Gigamon visibility solutions, including GigaVUE nodes,

cluster design, and integration with core, data center, and cloud networks.

Configure and manage flow maps, filters, load balancing, deduplication, header

stripping, and SSL/TLS decryption as required by security and monitoring tools.

Integrate Gigamon with IDS/IPS, firewalls, SIEM, APM/NPM, and other analytics

platforms, ensuring the right traffic reaches the right tools without

oversubscription.

Monitor platform health, capacity, and performance; plan upgrades, patches, and

expansions in coordination with network and security teams.

Troubleshoot packetlevel issues, visibility gaps, and tool performance problems

using SPAN/TAPs, Gigamon nodes, and protocol analyzers like Wireshark.

Create and maintain design documents, runbooks, and standard operating

procedures for Gigamon operations.

Provide knowledge transfer, training, and advisory support to customer or internal

teams on best practices for traffic visibility and usecase design.

Required skills and experience

Strong background in enterprise or data center networking (routing, switching,

VLANs, trunks, SPAN, TAPs, L2/L3 protocols).

Handson experience with Gigamon visibility appliances (e.g., GigaVUE series)

including clustering, management (H/Vision), and advanced traffic policies.

Familiarity with security and monitoring tools (IDS/IPS, firewalls, WAF, DLP,

NPM/APM, SIEM) and how they consume mirrored traffic.