Network Engineer

Job Title: Network Engineer

Location: Bengaluru

Experience: 3-6 years

Budget: 8-10 LPA

About The Role:

This role is focused on designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable and secure network infrastructure across warehouse, cloud, and edge environments. It involves hands-on VPN and firewall management, network architecture optimization, and compliance with security standards. The position also requires strong cross-functional collaboration, customer-facing IT support, and maintaining robust documentation to support deployments and incident resolution.

Responsibilities:

Network Infrastructure & Architecture

1. Design, deploy, and optimize internal and edge network infrastructure (warehouse sites, operations centers, cloud interfaces).
2. Perform capacity planning, load analysis, and recommend scalable network architecture
3. Specify and configure equipment racks, cable management, power/facility layouts, and networking hardware.
4. Assist with VLAN planning and inter-device LAN configurations (e.g., scanners, servers)
5. Collaborate with sysadmin and DevOps teams for cross-cutting issues.
6. Periodically review and advise on improvements to network architecture (e.g., resilient VPNs, bandwidth isolation, zero-trust)

Security & Compliance

1. Define, implement, and enforce network security policies including firewall, VPN, intrusion detection/prevention
2. Manage and update firewall policies, NAT rules, and routing
3. Conduct periodic vulnerability assessments, audits, and security hardening
4. Support secure key management and audit-ready configuration practices
5. Familiarity with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 principles preferred

Network & VPN Management

1. Configure and maintain site-to-site IPsec/IKEv2 VPN tunnels
2. Respond to connectivity issues, tunnel drops, and re-keying needs
3. Maintain high VPN uptime and participate in incident diagnosis/resolution

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

1. Monitor network performance, uptime, and traffic using diagnostic tools
2. Perform root cause analysis, corrective measures, upgrades, and routine maintenance
3. Maintain shared change-logs for all infrastructure adjustments

Customer-Facing IT Support & Documentation

Participate in onboarding calls with customer IT/security teams:

1. Explain company's network architecture
2. Help resolve firewall/VPN questions

Create and maintain reusable network documentation:

1. "Ports & Protocols" reference sheets
2. Deployment diagrams
3. Security FAQs and IT response templates

Maintain internal playbooks to streamline future deployments

Cross-Functional Collaboration

1. Work with software, operations, and customer engineering teams on solution deployments
2. Consult on client-facing projects and support scalable documentation
3. Join periodic planning calls with company's technical operations team
4. Provide monthly/quarterly summaries on VPN uptime, incident patterns, config changes

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
2. 3 - 6 years of experience in network design, deployment, and security
3. Hands-on with:

• Firewalls (e.g., FortiGate, Palo Alto)
• Managed switches, routers, access points
• HA clusters, SD-WAN, VPN, NAT/SNAT/DNAT

Strong proficiency with:

• -Routing protocols (IGP/OSPF, BGP)
• -VLANs, trunking, STP/RSTP, EtherChannel
• -TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VoIP, MPLS, hybrid cloud networks

Required:

1. Linux familiarity and scripting basics for network automation
2. Certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, or CISSP preferred
3. Strong documentation habits
4. Fluency in English for technical discussions with enterprise IT and InfoSec teams
5. Experience with Slack, Teams, Jira workflows

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with warehouse-edge robotics or IoT environments
• Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g., Microsoft Azure)
• Experience with CI/CD approaches to network provisioning
• Prior collaboration in U.S.–India cross-time-zone teams