Senior Network Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Network Engineer to manage, support, and enhance enterprise network infrastructure across the organization. This role acts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for network operations, ensuring high availability, security, performance, and SLA compliance while working closely with internal teams, vendors, and service providers.

Key Responsibilities

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  Act as SME for Network Infrastructure, providing technical guidance and mentoring junior engineers

  
  


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  Manage day-to-day enterprise network operations (BAU) including incident resolution and troubleshooting

  
  


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  Configure, manage, and support routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and network monitoring systems

  
  


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  Add, maintain, and decommission network devices as required

  
  


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  Monitor network health, availability, and performance proactively

  
  


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  Manage configuration files, backups, version control, and recovery

  
  


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  Perform network troubleshooting across multi-vendor environments

  
  


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  Plan and execute patching, firmware upgrades, rollouts, and releases

  
  


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  Conduct capacity planning, performance testing, stress testing, and growth analysis

  
  


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  Maintain accurate network inventories, topology diagrams, and technical documentation

  
  


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  Work with vendors, telcos, and service providers to meet SLAs and resolve issues

  
  


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  Support Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) exercises

  
  


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  Ensure compliance with operational processes, standards, and regulatory requirements

  
  


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  Identify risks, emerging threats, and recommend mitigation strategies

  
  

Required Skills & Experience

Core Network Operations

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  Enterprise Network Operations & Support – 5+ years

  
  


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  Strong experience in SLA-driven environments

  
  

Routing & Switching

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  Cisco and/or Huawei routing & switching – 5+ years

  
  


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  Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, VLANs, routing protocols, subnetting, DNS, DHCP

  
  

Network Security

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  Hands-on experience with firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Juniper, Cisco) – 3–5+ years

  
  

Load Balancing & Traffic Management

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  Experience with F5, VMware NSX-T, or Avi load balancers – 3–5+ years

  
  

Monitoring & Configuration Management

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  Network monitoring & alerting tools – 3–5+ years

  
  


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  Configuration, backup, and recovery management – 3–5+ years

  
  

Infrastructure & Lifecycle Management

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  Network device lifecycle management – 5+ years

  
  


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  Capacity planning and performance testing – 3–5+ years

  
  

Operations & Collaboration

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  Vendor and service provider management – 3–5+ years

  
  


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  DR & BCP participation – 3–5+ years

  
  


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  Strong stakeholder and cross-team collaboration skills – 5+ years

  
  

Leadership

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  SME / Technical leadership experience – 2–3+ years

  
  

Nice to Have

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  Experience in regulated or large enterprise environments

  
  


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  Exposure to cloud networking (AWS / Azure)

  
  


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  Automation or scripting experience (Shell, Python)