Senior Network Engineer

Role: Senior Network Engineer

Experience: 7+ years

Location: Hyderabad

Education: Minimum 15 years of full-time education

JOB PURPOSE :

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Network Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our network

infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in network administration and

architecture, with a strong focus on security and performance optimization. This role involves mentoring

Junior Network Engineers and ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our network systems.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy and maintain functional networks (LAN, WLAN, WAN, Wi-Fi)

• Design, deploy and maintain the Paragon network infrastructure.

• Support Paragon’s in-house and cloud-based networks, respond to tickets within agreed SLA’s ensuring

all incidents are resolved and documented

• Accountable for Paragon’s network boundary and security systems covering IDS/IPS, Advanced threat

prevention, Web content filtering, DNS protection, and DLP

• Management and Configuration of all network devices in line with industry best practices and regulatory

controls across routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN and Wi-fi.

• Monitor network performance and ensure system availability and reliability.

• Resolve network issues escalated by ticket or direct notification

• Automate tasks and monitor their effectiveness.

• Escalation management, 3rd line support, and development of the Paragon Global network

• Deliver positive leadership, mentoring and development of all team members delivering a collaborative

and cohesive working environment

• Create, oversee, and test security measures (e.g. access authentication and disaster recovery).

• Create, update and maintain complete technical documentation.

• Suggest improvements to network performance, capacity, and scalability.

• Required to perform out of hours work upon agreement and will be part of an on-call rota for Incident

support and resolution

• Perform system maintenance, patching and updates ensuring compliance with Paragon’s security policies

and controls.

• May be required to travel to site (Paragon or Client)

Competencies

• Technical Expertise – Advanced Formal training or equivalent experience in Networking systems design,

configuration and support

• Relationship Management - Able to communicate clearly and concisely to both technical and non

technical personnel. This may include contact with Paragon’s clients.

• Able to deliver a clear message instilling confidence in the Technology team to deliver results. Able to

demonstrate good written and verbal communication, influencing and negotiation skills

• Customer Management - Able to work with internal and external customers to establish/validate

requirements. Understands that colleagues in the business are customers and adopts a Service Excellence

ethos. Able to communicate effectively with non-technical staff

• Quality Management - Understands Paragon’s Quality policy and able to follow standard operating

procedures

• Change Management – Understands and adheres fully to Paragon’s Change Management procedure

• Project Management – Understands the Paragon Technology Project methodology and complies with

standards set. Communicates in a timely manner on any assigned actions, risks, issues and dependencies.

Defines, documents and carries out service improvements within the Paragon network.

• ITIL – Foundation course completed, understands and follows ITIL practices and procedures

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team with excellent organisational and mentoring skills.

Skills:

• Expert knowledge of routing protocols, including BGP, OSPF and EIGRP.

• Extensive experience with campus networking technologies (Cisco, Juniper and HP).

• Strong expertise in wireless networking (Meraki and Ruckus).

• In-depth experience with datacentre networking, including Cisco Nexus and NDFC, Arista CloudVision,

EVPN VXLAN, and Juniper/Cisco routing platforms.

• Advanced knowledge of IPsec VPN technologies.

• Extensive experience in designing and configuring Palo Alto firewalls.

• Additional experience with Cisco ASA, Fortinet and Juniper SRX firewalls.

• Strong background in load balancing and WAF technologies (F5, Kemp and Imperva).

• Hands-on experience with network management and monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, NetBox, Cisco

ISE and Zabbix.

• Experience in network automation, par…