Network Engineer

Job Description: Network Engineer

Reports To: Team Lead

Location: Hyderabad

Payroll: Client Payroll

Experience: 5 12 Years

Job Purpose

The Network Engineer will be responsible for implementing, maintaining, and optimizing Clients network infrastructure. The role requires strong expertise in enterprise networking, security, performance optimisation, and support of both on-prem and cloud-based environments.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

- Deploy, configure, and maintain network infrastructure including switches, routers, Wi-Fi, load balancers, and firewalls.

• Support in-house and cloud-based networks, ensuring incidents are resolved within agreed SLAs and properly documented.

- Manage and secure network boundaries including IDS/IPS, web filtering, DNS protection, advanced threat prevention, and DLP.

• Configure and manage routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPNs, and wireless networks following industry best practices.

• Monitor network performance, availability, and reliability, ensuring optimal service delivery.

• Provide 3rd line support and manage escalations as part of the global network operations team.

• Automate network tasks and monitor their effectiveness using scripting and automation tools.

• Design, test, and maintain security controls including access authentication and disaster recovery.

• Create and maintain detailed technical documentation and network diagrams.

• Provide on-call and out-of-hours support as part of an agreed rota.

• Perform system patching, maintenance, and upgrades ensuring compliance with security policies.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong expertise in routing and switching including BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP.

• Hands-on experience with Cisco, Juniper, and HP campus networking technologies.

- Strong wireless networking experience with Meraki and Ruckus.

- Experience with datacenter networking Cisco Nexus, NDFC, Arista CloudVision, EVPN VXLAN.

- Advanced firewall expertise with Palo Alto (mandatory).

• Experience with Cisco ASA, Fortinet, and Juniper SRX firewalls.

• Load balancing and WAF technologies including F5, Kemp, and Imperva.

• Network monitoring and management tools such as SolarWinds, NetBox, Cisco ISE, and Zabbix.

• Experience with IPsec VPN technologies and SD-WAN (Arista Velocloud desirable).

• Public cloud networking experience across AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and Megaport.

• Network automation experience using Ansible and Python (highly desirable).

• Experience supporting PCI-compliant environments.

Competencies & Behavioral Skills

• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Customer-focused mindset with a Service Excellence approach.

• Strong adherence to change management, quality management, and ITIL processes.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a global team.

• Strong accountability, ownership, and problem-solving skills.

• Commitment to continuous improvement and self-development.

Qualifications & Certifications

• Proven experience as a Network Engineer (5 - 12 years).

• CCNA certification (mandatory); CCNP highly desirable.

• Palo Alto, AWS, and Azure certifications are highly desirable.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Kindly Note: Candidate having relevant experience, please reach out to: [email protected]