Senior Network Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, monitor, and support enterprise LAN/WAN infrastructure.
• Lead and execute network infrastructure deployment for new offices, stores, branches, and other business locations.
• Create and maintain network architecture and network diagrams for new office setups, including LAN/WAN topology, connectivity, switches, firewalls, access points, and other network components.
• Configure and troubleshoot routing and switching environments.
• Manage firewall configuration, administration, security policies, VPNs, and access controls.
• Handle end-to-end network management, including network availability, performance, capacity, and security.
• Manage VPN connectivity and ensure secure communication across geographically distributed locations.
• Coordinate with ISPs for circuit provisioning, installation, issue resolution, bandwidth upgrades, and performance management.
• Handle vendor coordination for networking hardware, software, firewall solutions, and support services.
• Ensure high availability, performance, redundancy, and security of the organization's network infrastructure.
• Monitor network health, proactively identify issues, and resolve incidents within agreed SLAs.
• Support network operations across multiple geographically distributed locations.
• Participate in network upgrades, expansion projects, new office network deployments, and infrastructure improvement initiatives.
• Maintain network documentation, configurations, topology diagrams, and standard operating procedures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, IT teams, facilities, and vendors to support new office setups and business/IT initiatives.

Required Skills & Experience

• 6–10 years of hands-on experience in enterprise networking.
• Strong hands-on expertise in:
• LAN/WAN
• Routing & Switching
• Firewall management and configuration
• VPN technologies
• Network monitoring and troubleshooting
• ISP coordination and circuit management
• Vendor management
• Network deployment and implementation
• End-to-end network management
• Proven experience in planning and deploying network infrastructure for new offices/sites, including requirement gathering, network design, configuration, implementation, testing, and go-live support.
• Experience in creating network architecture/topology diagrams for new office setups and documenting network connectivity, devices, IP addressing, VLANs, firewalls, and WAN links.
• Experience managing network infrastructure for 100+ geographically distributed stores, branches, offices, or warehouses.
• Strong understanding of enterprise network architecture, redundancy, high availability, and network security.
• Strong hands-on experience in firewall administration, security policies, VPN configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex network issues.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deployments in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong stakeholder, vendor, and ISP management skills.

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