Senior Network Engineer - APAC & EMEA Sift

Senior Network Engineer - Pune or Hyderabad

We see this as an exciting opportunity for someone who is proficient at managing all aspects of LAN/WAN network infrastructure including routers, switches, load balancers, and firewalls in both on‑prem and cloud environments. Reporting to the Associate Director, Network Engineering, this position will work closely with the Site Reliability Operations, Systems Engineering, and Software Development organizations in support of our state‑of‑the‑art 24/7/365 production SaaS service offering.

This critical position provides great visibility and individual growth potential for an ambitious IT professional but also requires proven experience with exponential growth on a global scale. You must be able to think creatively and work independently, presenting creative solutions to difficult networking problems.

In this role, you will:

• Day‑to‑day operational support of network infrastructure and services maintaining highly available, high performance data center network infrastructure involving multiple distributed systems in both on‑premise and cloud environments.
• Configuration, administration, upgrade, and maintenance of network switches, routers, load balancers, and firewalls.
• Troubleshoot technical issues with other technical staff and end‑users.
• Monitor and manage network security, traffic, and performance.
• Utilize network monitoring and administration tools:
  Solar Winds, Thousand Eyes, Panorama, New Relic, Grafana, and Logic Monitor.
• Maintain Cornerstone’s global SaaS service ensuring all incidents are tracked and remediated, and changes are implemented under the auspices of Cornerstone’s policies and procedures.
• Develop documentation and diagrams supporting Standard Operating Procedure documents.
• Establish enterprise data network standards taking into account various in‑flight initiatives.
• Manage medium to large scale public and private IP address schemes.
• Work with team members and peer groups to ensure the security, availability, resiliency, and compliance with industry and regulatory requirements (ISO, SOC 1/2, Fed Ramp, PCI) in a fast‑paced SaaS environment.
• Provide thorough understanding of network security aspects, common problems and solutions (ACL, firewall filtering, and VPN).

Ideal candidate will have:

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of TCP/IP protocols, IP Addressing, DHCP, NAT, MPLS, VPN, VLANs, load balancing, and wireless technologies.
• Proven experience delivering network services and solutions in a mid‑size or larger enterprise.
• CCNA level experience is required; CCNP certification or higher is preferred.
• 5–8 years of network engineering in a datacenter environment.
• Experience with network change management control tools and policies.
• In-depth knowledge of OSPF and BGP routing protocols.
• Hands‑on experience with L2/L3 switching on enterprise class hardware, including Arista, Cisco, Juniper, and Brocade switches and routers.
• Experience securing network environments with Palo Alto and Juniper firewalls.
• F5 and A10 load balancer configuration and design principals.
• Extensive experience building scalable, highly available, mission‑critical network infrastructures.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; team leader, team player, dependable and flexible.
• Deep analytical, interpersonal, organizational, communication, problem‑solving skills.
• Security compliance experience as it relates to the network.
• Demonstrated commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment.

Extra dose of awesome if you have… virtualization experience, ITIL certification. This role revolves across APAC and EMEA. Shift and commute to office would be supported by cab (pick‑drop).