Senior Network Engineer

Job Title: Senior Network Engineer
Experience: 10 Years
Job Type: Full-Time / Contract

Required Skills

• 10 years of experience in Network Engineering and Infrastructure.
• Strong expertise in Cisco routing and switching (Catalyst, Nexus).
• Experience with Cisco ASA, Firepower, Palo Alto, or Fortinet firewalls.
• Hands-on experience with LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, VPN, MPLS, and wireless networks.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, STP, VLANs, NAT, and QoS.
• Experience with network monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, PRTG, Nagios, or Cisco DNA Center.
• Knowledge of Load Balancers (F5 BIG-IP, Citrix ADC).
• Experience with cloud networking (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Hands-on experience with Cisco ISE, Cisco ACI, and network access control.
• Knowledge of network automation using Python, Ansible, Terraform, or REST APIs.
• Experience with Cisco Meraki and wireless technologies is a plus.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience in high-availability and disaster recovery network environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, and maintain enterprise network infrastructure.
• Manage routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, wireless controllers, and load balancers.
• Monitor network performance and ensure high availability.
• Perform network upgrades, migrations, and hardware refresh projects.
• Troubleshoot complex network connectivity and security issues.
• Configure and support BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLANs, QoS, NAT, and VPN technologies.
• Collaborate with security, cloud, and infrastructure teams.
• Implement network security best practices and compliance standards.
• Create and maintain network documentation, topology diagrams, and SOPs.
• Automate network configuration and operational tasks.
• Participate in on-call support and incident management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10 years of enterprise network engineering experience.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Experience working in Agile/ITIL environments.

Preferred Certifications

• Cisco CCNP Enterprise
• Cisco CCIE (Preferred)
• Palo Alto PCNSE
• Fortinet NSE
• AWS Advanced Networking Specialty
• Azure Network Engineer Associate