- Company Name
- IT WORLD LIMITED
- Job Title
- Senior Network Engineer
- Job Description
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**Job title**
Senior Network Engineer
**Role Summary**
Lead, design, and maintain a high‑availability global network. Own incident response, troubleshoot complex routing, switching, firewalling, and wireless issues, drive automation, and mentor the engineering team.
**Expectations**
- Resolve critical incidents under tight deadlines.
- Set technical direction and best‑practice standards.
- Mentor junior staff and foster operational excellence.
- Participate in 24/7 shift cycle to support uninterrupted services.
**Key Responsibilities**
1. **Incident Management** – Own major outages, coordinate restoration, and document post‑mortem actions.
2. **Advanced Troubleshooting** – Diagnose multi‑vendor problems across routing, switching, firewall, wireless, and overlay/underlay networks.
3. **Technical Leadership** – Define roadmap, review designs, and influence network architecture decisions.
4. **Shift Operations** – Provide on‑call support and maintain service availability round the clock.
5. **Multi‑Vendor Management** – Configure and troubleshoot equipment from Arista, Cisco, Cumulus, Spectrum Ethernet, InfiniBand, Palo Alto, Check Point, Mist, Aruba, A10, Netscaler, and F5.
6. **Security & Segmentation** – Design and enforce segmentation policies, VPN solutions (GlobalProtect, AnyConnect).
7. **Automation & Observability** – Build and maintain monitoring stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Salt, Ansible) and integrate with ITSM tools (ServiceNow, ITMP).
8. **Innovation Projects** – Collaborate on wireless deployment plans and AI cluster networking.
**Required Skills**
- ≥10 years network engineering/operations experience.
- Deep expertise in routing, switching, firewalling, and wireless across multiple vendors.
- Strong overlay/underlay network troubleshooting.
- Proficiency with Linux/Unix environments.
- Experience with automation platforms (Ansible, Salt) and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk).
- Ability to work independently, lead technically, and mentor others.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Industry certifications preferred: CCNP/CCIE, JNCIP, Aruba Certified Design Professional, Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer, or similar.