Job Description & How to Apply Below
Alkem Laboratories Limited is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Mumbai, that manufactures and sells pharmaceutical generics, formulations and nutraceuticals in India and globally over 50 countries. We have consistently been ranked amongst the top five pharmaceutical companies in India. Our portfolio includes illustrious brands like Clavam, Pan, Pan-D, and Taxim-O, which feature amongst the top 50 pharmaceutical brands in India.
Purpose of the Role:
The incumbent will own the architecture, engineering, operations, security, availability, and lifecycle management of Alkem's on-premise infrastructure, enterprise networks, SD-WAN, internet services, remote access, wireless networks, data centers, plant connectivity, and network security platforms.
This role is responsible for ensuring a secure, scalable, resilient, and high-performing network and infrastructure environment across corporate offices, manufacturing plants, R&D centers, warehouses, distribution locations, and international operations, enabling seamless connectivity for users, applications, cloud platforms, and third-party partners.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Enterprise Network Architecture & Engineering
Design, develop, and maintain enterprise network architecture, standards, reference designs, IP addressing schemes, routing, segmentation, redundancy, and capacity plans.
Lead engineering and implementation of LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, MPLS, internet connectivity, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, load balancing, wireless networks, cloud connectivity, and remote access services.
Conduct technical assessments and reviews for new facilities, plant expansions, data center upgrades, cloud integrations, application onboarding, and network modernization initiatives.
Maintain current and future-state architecture documentation, network diagrams, configuration standards, dependency maps, and technology roadmaps.
2. Network Operations & Service Assurance
Manage network availability, performance, utilization, configuration management, backup, patching, and lifecycle management of routers, switches, wireless controllers, access points, and related infrastructure.
Implement and manage centralized network monitoring, configuration compliance, event management, traffic analytics, log collection, and proactive capacity monitoring.
Lead resolution of critical incidents, coordinate root cause analysis (RCA), and ensure implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
Define, monitor, and report network KPIs including availability, latency, packet loss, bandwidth utilization, incident response time, change success rate, and recurring fault trends.
3. Data Center & On-Premise Infrastructure Management
Manage data center and server-room infrastructure, including racks, power systems, UPS, structured cabling, environmental monitoring, and equipment lifecycle management.
Coordinate operations of physical servers, virtualization platforms, storage systems, backup appliances, console access, and out-of-band management in collaboration with platform teams.
Ensure resilient connectivity across primary and disaster recovery data centers, manufacturing plants, branch offices, cloud environments, and strategic partners.
Support capacity planning, infrastructure refresh programs, relocations, consolidations, commissioning, and decommissioning activities while ensuring proper documentation and governance.
4. Network Security & Segmentation
Partner with Information Security teams to implement and manage firewalls, VPNs, SASE, Secure Web Access, Network Access Control (NAC), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), DNS security, and network segmentation controls.
Maintain appropriate segregation between corporate IT, servers, guest networks, vendor access, laboratories, manufacturing systems, and OT environments based on approved security architecture.
Manage and periodically review firewall rules, remote access paths, privileged administration access, third-party connectivity, and network security exceptions.
Ensure integration of network logs, alerts, and security events with enterprise monitoring and Security Operations processes.
5. Plant, OT & Site Connectivity
Ensure highly available communication services for manufacturing plants, laboratories, warehouses, utilities, serialization systems, automation platforms, and OT environments.
Coordinate with Engineering, OT, Automation, Quality, Application, and Information Security teams to implement secure connectivity and manage controlled changes in…
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