Lead Engineer - Network Engineering

Location
Chennai
Workplace
On-site

About this role

1.     Role Purpose: Leads enterprise network engineering & advanced operational support across routing, switching, WAN, LAN, wireless, SD-WAN and network security components to ensure high availability, optimized performance and secure network connectivity across customer and internal environments.
2.     Key Responsibilities:
·      Lead design, configuration, deployment and optimization of network infrastructure, routing policies and segmentation.
·      Perform advanced troubleshooting, problem management, RCA, performance optimization and escalations handling.
·      Support network upgrades, migrations, patching, software upgrades, capacity management and resilience improvements.
·      Implement network security controls, ACLs, firewall policies, zero trust segmentation and access governance.
·      Ensure end-to-end network observability, monitoring integration and proactive detection of performance degradation.
·      Create and maintain network architecture documentation, operational runbooks and engineering standards.
·      Provide technical SME support for new solutions / presales sizing and infra transformation initiatives.
3.     Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
·      Network availability and performance SLA adherence
·      MTTR & incident resolution effectiveness
·      Network change success rate
·      Network optimization gain metrics (latency, throughput, packet loss reduction)
·      Control / policy compliance and standardization adoption
·      Reduction in repeat network incidents

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