Senior Network Engineer

Landmark Group

Our journey started in 1973 with a single store in Bahrain. Since then, we have grown into a global retail and hospitality group. The proud creator of 25 plus value led, own-built brands across retail, hospitality, food, and leisure.

Over the years, our UAE - based group has evolved into a comprehensive retail and hospitality entity, with over 2200 retail stores, leisure, and hospitality outlets, panning the GCC, Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Landmark Group headquartered in Dubai, UAE is one of GCC's largest omnichannel retailers and India's top home and fashion retailer.

We take immense pride in the organic growth of our retail brands, which have blossomed into household names. From Max, Splash, Babyshop, Centrepoint, Shoemart, Home Centre, Emax, Fitness First, to Fun City, to name a few, our brands span across a multitude of categories, enriching the lives of countless families over the past decade.

Landmark Digital

Landmark Digital is the dynamic digital arm of Landmark Retail, serving as the cornerstone of our omnichannel business strategy. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, with a strong technology and development hub in Bengaluru, we build and scale digital products, platforms, and experiences that power our retail businesses across multiple markets.

We oversee the digital landscape of eight leading brands across diverse geographies, with ambitious plans for expansion into new territories and functions. Joining us means becoming a vital part of the Middle East's most significant bricks-to-clicks success story, boasting an impressive year-on-year growth rate exceeding 100%.

Comprising a talented workforce of over 700 professionals across diverse domains, Landmark Digital spearheads various functions including Enterprise and E-commerce Tech, Product Management, User Design, and MarTech, among others. With our futuristic outlook, we are committed to delivering seamless digital experiences to our customers.

At Landmark Digital, we cultivate an agile work culture, empowering you to make impactful decisions from day one within collaborative squads comprising professionals from over 20 nationalities. Additionally, our dedicated software development center in Bangalore, India, offers opportunities for incubation, design, and optimization of digital products.

Working at Landmark Digital means engaging with cutting-edge technologies, including Enterprise and E-commerce tech, headless commerce, Java Spring Boot, React Native, React frontend, and Azure Cloud solutions, providing an enriching environment for professional growth and development.

In addition to competitive remuneration and benefits, we prioritize continuous learning and growth through dedicated training and upskilling initiatives. Furthermore, our vibrant workplace culture fosters camaraderie through various team events, celebrations, and recreational amenities, ensuring a fulfilling experience both personally and professionally.

Come be a part of Landmark Digital, where innovation, collaboration, and growth converge to redefine the digital retail landscape

Job Purpose

To provide Level 3 technical leadership, operational support, and governance for the organization's network and security infrastructure, ensuring secure, resilient, and high-performing connectivity services across data centers, campuses, branch offices, cloud, and remote environments. The role is responsible for the design, administration, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of enterprise networking and security platforms, including LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, Wi-Fi, firewalls, VPN, network access control (NAC), load balancers, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, and network monitoring solutions, while ensuring service availability, cybersecurity, compliance, operational excellence, and alignment with business objectives

Job Description

Areas of Work: Lead-IT Network & security administration

• At least 10+ years of hands-on experience in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting network devices such as Core & Spine switch, routers, VPN gateways, in Onprem and Cloud deployment such as – Azure, OCI and IBM (knowledge on products such as cisco hardware)
• Ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of enterprise network services, including LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, firewalls, VPN, and network access control
• Hands on technical Proficiency in designing, architecting and administering Network & Security Solutions and managing network hardware such as routers, switches, wireless controllers, and load balancers
• 7+ Years of hand on experience deploying, configuring and managing security devices such as firewalls in On prem and cloud deployments such as Azure, OCI and IBM (Knowledge on products such as Cisco devices, Extreme Cloud APs, HPE Aruba-SDWAN, Palo Alto firewalls, )
• 10+ years of experience in administrating, set up , configuring and troubleshooting security devices such as IPS/IDS, Firewalls, Proxy devices ( working knowledge on products such as F5 Load balancers, Cisco IPS/IDS, Palo alto firewalls)
• Experience in design, setup, configuration and daily administration of above technologies
• Ability to triage, troubleshoot and resolve complex issues/incidents
• Ability to define technology roadmap, maintain technical debt of Network & security devices by regularly upgrading the components based on OEM recommendations
• Vulnerability management for Network & Security devices
• Strong knowledge of networking protocols (e.g., BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, STP, VLANs)
• Industry certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP, or equivalent are preferred
• Familiarity with any one of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, OCI, IBM)
• Strong understanding of ITIL processes
• Strong Exposure to automation & scripting
• Experience of IT operations in a multinational company
• Intercultural competence, team spirit, communication and cooperation ability, high degree of independence
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) , Problem solving and Stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work under pressure and lead network & security engineers from own teams and identified service providers

End to end ownership & accountability for Operations, Projects within Network and Security domain