About

Sunil Kumar M.S is a Talent Acquisition Lead for India and APAC-IP Networking Cloud, Sales, and Data Center at Extreme Networks, based in Bangalore. He has over 14 years of experience in full life cycle recruiting, with a focus on the staffing industry. Sunil is responsible for all recruiting management for Extreme Networks India Engineering Groups, including Data Center Ethernet, Wireless Group, FVT Test Group, SQA Group, Layer2/Layer3, OSPF, BGP, RIP, Routing, Multicast, Unicast, Switching, IPV6, Forwarding, STP, RSTP, MSTP, L2/L3, VLAN, Edge-Routing, and Layer 4 to Layer 7-Load Balancing, Server Load Balancing, HTTP –Storage Skills-RAID, SAN, WAN, Fiber Channel, Platform Development, Linux, Kernel, etc. Sunil is a self-sufficient, stand-alone technical recruiter who can identify and develop a strategy to find the best and qualified candidates in the shortest possible time. He is a specialized recruiting professional who has a passion to get the work done and thinks only one thing let's do it. He has proven expertise in successfully developing and implementing sourcing strategies, including advanced internet searching like Google, Yahoo, and social networking sites such as Orkut, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Sunil is proficient in Boolean search strings, job boards, social networking sites, LinkedIn forums, and Google search. He has experience in meeting with business heads to understand staffing needs, budgets, timelines, target industries/organizations, etc. He is responsible for end-to-end recruitment for the business unit, ensuring the team conducts strategic planning, attraction, sourcing, selection, and conversion of candidates for both specific requisitions, building a diverse pipeline of highly skilled resources, effectively managing candidate relationships, and selling Extreme Networks as an employer of choice. Sunil has worked with Brocade as a Lead-Recruitment- IP-Networking, SDN, NFV, Storage Networking, and as an APJ Strategic Sourcing Lead at Brocade Communications. He has also worked as a Recruitment Executive at Cisco. Sunil holds an MBA in HR from MAHE, Manipal University, and a BBM in Commerce from the University of Mysore. Overall, Sunil is a highly skilled and experienced talent acquisition professional with expertise in technical recruiting, advanced internet searching, and social networking. He has a passion for finding