Senior Network Engineer
- Source: Naukri
- V3 Staffing
- On-site
- Hyderabad
- Full-Time
- Senior
Job Description
Title Sr. Network Engineer
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Cloud modernization & hybrid connectivity
• Design and deliver hybrid and cloud network architectures across AWS and Azure — VPC/VNet design, Transit
Gateway/Virtual WAN, Direct Connect/ExpressRoute, VPN, DNS, and segmentation — aligned to the cloud
modernization roadmap.
• Build connectivity between on-premises data centers and cloud landing zones, ensuring performance, redundancy,
and secure east-west and north-south traffic flows.
• Codify the network as infrastructure — authoring and reviewing Terraform and Ansible so cloud and hybrid network
changes are repeatable, versioned, and auditable.
Data center consolidation & migration
• Plan and execute network cutovers for data center consolidation and workload migration — discovery, dependency
mapping, low-level design, migration runbooks, and rollback plans.
• Lead cutover events including out-of-hours change windows, coordinating validation and hyper-care with application,
cloud, and infrastructure teams across sites.
• Refactor and decommission legacy DC network components (routing, switching, firewall rules, load-balancer configs,
IP space) as sites are consolidated, retiring technical debt safely.
Network engineering & operations
• Design, implement, and operate enterprise routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VXLAN/EVPN), data center
fabric (Cisco Nexus/ACI or equivalent), SD-WAN, firewalls, and load balancers.
• Own complex troubleshooting as an escalation point for high-severity and cross-domain network incidents — driving
root-cause analysis, resolution, and prevention with minimal supervision.
• Strengthen resilience and security through segmentation, zero-trust principles, and hardening consistent with
healthcare compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA, PCI-DSS) and Zelis standards.
Observability, automation & continuous improvement
• Improve visibility using monitoring and observability tooling (e.g., SolarWinds, ThousandEyes, NetFlow, SNMP,
Datadog) with actionable alerting and dashboards.
• Automate recurring work — configuration management, compliance checks, and remediation — using Python,
Ansible, and CI/CD to reduce manual effort and change risk.
• Maintain standards — up-to-date designs, runbooks, and diagrams (HLD/LLD) — and contribute to network
standards, patterns, and best practices.
Collaboration & stakeholder engagement
• Partner across US and India stakeholders — cloud, DevOps, SRE, IT operations, security, and application teams — in a
matrixed, follow-the-sun model, ensuring smooth handoffs and shared context.
• Drive work independently translating ambiguous requirements into clear plans, sequencing tasks, and delivering to
timelines without close oversight.
• Communicate clearly to both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders — status, risk, and impact — and
mentor junior engineers on the team.
Qualifications : 8+ years of hands-on enterprise network engineering experience, including a senior/lead role on
medium-to-large environments.
• Deep, demonstrable expertise in routing and switching — BGP, OSPF, VLANs, spanning tree, and multicast — with
strong fundamentals in TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and NAT.
• Proven data center networking experience (Cisco Nexus/ACI, Arista, or equivalent) and hands-on hybrid cloud
networking in AWS and/or Azure (VPC/VNet, Transit Gateway/vWAN, Direct Connect/ExpressRoute, VPN, security
groups/NSGs).
• Hands-on experience with firewalls (Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower/ASA, or Fortinet), load balancers (F5 or equivalent),
and SD-WAN.
• Direct experience delivering data center migration and/or consolidation projects, including cutover planning and
execution during change windows.
• Practical network automation skills — Python and/or Ansible — and working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code
(Terraform) and Git-based workflows.
• Strong, independent troubleshooting ability across the network stack, with a structured root-cause approach.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with a track record of collaborating across geographically distributed
(US/India) teams and time zones.
• Design hybrid-cloud networking solutions connecting AWS, on-premises data centers, and third-party providers.
• Leverage Megaport and similar cloud interconnection platforms to provide scalable and resilient connectivity.
• Drive network automation using Python, Ansible, Terraform, APIs, and Git.
Preferr…
Skills
- amazon-web-services
- microsoft-azure
- amazon-vpc
- google-vpc
- Terraform
- Ansible
- solarwinds
- thousandeyes
- datadog
- Python
- aws-transit-gateway
- aws-direct-connect
- amazon-connect
- cisco-firepower
- fortinet-security
- f5
- megaport
- infoblox
- new-relic
- JIRA
- jira-service-management-
