Sr. Network Engineer

Overview

Senior Network Engineer responsible for the reliability, security, lifecycle, and strategic direction of the corporate network across the global enterprise, including enterprise firewall management, monitoring and troubleshooting.

What you'll do

• Design, implement, support, and optimize enterprise LAN, WAN, WLAN, Cloud, and network security services.
• Engineer routing, switching, segmentation, and connectivity solutions that support business requirements while maintaining security, resiliency, and operational simplicity.
• Contribute to the firewall platform strategy, architecture, engineering standards, lifecycle roadmap, and operational health across the global enterprise.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for firewall architecture, policy design, network segmentation, remote-access and site-to-site VPN services, threat prevention, logging, and centralized management.
• Troubleshoot complex network and application-connectivity issues using packet capture, flow analysis, logs, telemetry, and protocol-level diagnostics.
• Lead or contribute to global network projects, technology refreshes, site deployments, integrations, divestitures, and transformation initiatives.
• Monitor network capacity, availability, and performance; recommend improvements before service quality or business operations are affected.
• Create and maintain network diagrams, configuration standards, implementation plans, test plans, operational procedures, and support documentation.
• Participate in on-call or escalation to support high-severity incidents when required.
• Work effectively within a virtual network engineering team distributed across regions and time zones.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and peer review without relying on direct reporting authority.
• Coordinate cross-region work, handoffs, maintenance activities, incident response, and knowledge transfer to support consistent global operations.
• Communicate complex technical topics clearly to engineers, cybersecurity teams, infrastructure partners, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• Build productive working relationships with internal teams, external partners, vendors, and contractors in a multicultural environment.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or associate degree in information technology, engineering, computer science, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 7 or more years of progressive experience engineering and supporting enterprise-class networks in a large, multi-site environment.
• Demonstrated experience owning or leading an enterprise firewall platform, including architecture, operations, lifecycle management, standards, and governance.
• Advanced experience with next-generation firewalls and centralized management platforms.
• Strong knowledge of firewall policy, security zones, network segmentation, NAT, VPN, IDS/IPS, logging, high availability, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Advanced enterprise routing and switching experience, including BGP, EIGRP or OSPF, VRF, VLAN, 802.1Q, spanning tree, QoS, and SD-WAN concepts.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise LAN, WAN, campus, branch, data center, and cloud connectivity and equipment in a global environment.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical changes and resolve high-impact incidents using disciplined change, incident, and problem-management practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to collaborate across cultures, functions, and time zones.

Nice to have

• Fortinet, Cisco, Palo experience (highly preferred) with next-generation firewalls and centralized management platforms.
• CCNP Enterprise, CCNP Security, CCIE, FCA, FCP or comparable vendor certifications.
• Experience with Cisco Switching, Meraki, and Fortinet Firewalls.
• Experience working with globally distributed technical teams.
• Experience with complex routing design and segmentation.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Work mode: Hybrid.
• Ability to work across global time zones as business needs require.
• Ability to participate in planned after-hours maintenance and incident escalation.
• Ability to travel as needed.