Senior Network Engineer

Lead the design, implementation, and support of enterprise and data center networks across onprem and cloud environments. Partner with security, cloud, and application teams to deliver a secure, reliable, and scalable network. This role drives modernization, automation, and documentation while mentoring junior engineers.

• Responsibilities: Architect and implement campus, data center, and cloud network solutions using industry standard routing, switching, and overlay technologies.
• Configure and support enterprise grade routing/switching and load balancing platforms.
• Operate next generation firewalls, NAT, and VPN services for site-to-site and remote access connectivity.
• Manage wireless networks, RF design, and enterprise authentication/authorization across endpoints.
• Implement identity based access controls and network segmentation aligned with zero trust principles.
• Use network assurance/observability tools for compliance, performance tuning, and change automation.
• Administer DDI (DNS/DHCP/IPAM) with high availability and capacity planning.
• Support unified communications, QoS for voice/video, and troubleshoot multicast when needed.
• Integrate networking with compute platforms and cloud providers; design hybrid connectivity and BGP based routing.
• Perform Tier 3 troubleshooting, root cause analysis, lifecycle upgrades, and capacity planning.
• Maintain thorough documentation (diagrams, standards, inventories, runbooks) and knowledge articles.
• Collaborate with cross?functional teams and vendors; participate in on?call rotation and maintenance windows.
• Adhere to security policies and standard operating procedures.

Requirements: Education:
Bachelor’s in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent experience.

• Experience:
  
  7–10+ years in multi-site, production enterprise networking.
• Routing/Switching:
  Strong OSPF/BGP, policy/route filtering, first hop redundancy, and HA designs, SD-Access, SGTs
• Security/Firewalls:
  Experience with leading NGFW platforms and enterprise VPN.
• Load Balancing:
  Experience with enterprise L4–L7 load balancers and DNS.
• Wireless:
  Enterprise WLAN design, 802.1X/EAP, and RF planning.
• Identity & Access: NAC, endpoint profiling/posture, and role?based access.
• DDI:
  Administration of DNS/DHCP/IPAM using best practices.
• Cloud & DC:
  Networking across public cloud providers and data center fabrics/overlays with ACI, VxLAN.
• Unified Comms & Compute:
  QoS for voice/video, integration with compute platforms.
• Tools:
  Network assurance/observability, packet analysis, flow telemetry, SNMP/syslog; strong documentation skills.
• Certifications (preferred): CCNP/CCIE or equivalent; security/wireless/cloud networking certifications.
• Advantage if you have: AI/ML(AIOps), Python Scripting, LLMs, MCP-Servers.

This senior role blends architecture and hands-on delivery, ensuring high availability and security while mentoring the team and driving modernization.