Lead Networking Engineer

Lead Network Engineer Assurant-GCC India Reporting to the VP of Cloud Planning Infrastructure and Cloud Services ICS Lead Cloud Network Engineer is responsible for leading the design and build of public cloud networking connectivity design and automation The scope of the role requires broad and in-depth knowledge of multiple networking technologies including SDN in public cloud security and automaton This is one of the key roles for the successful delivery successful delivery of the Enterprise Cloud as A service The role holder will implement the overall design and build of public cloud connectivity from Assurant DCs and Internet customer locations for the Enterprise cloud Platform delivery Also owns the implementation of design and delivery of all Network services within the public cloud and automaton of these services working with automation and principal network Engineers This position will be Hyderabad at our India location What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job Design Engineer and Build patterns and Catalog of Enterprise and Cloud Networking -85 LAN WAN DNS EVPN VXLA BGP based DC Network designs with public cloud connectivity from Assurant customer DCs Owns and maintains Network engineering design catalog of the multi cloud network and DC Network with fully automated underlay overlay designs Implement the designs and provide network as a product and service including product support Works with the DevSecOps team to define the requirements for catalog automation for network infrastructure and policy as code to automate the full lifecycle of the design patterns Works with Information Security engineers to ensure public cloud networking patterns and are aligned to enterprise security requirements policies Owns the detailed design patterns for tools and automation of IaaS and PaaS offerings works with cross-functional teams of ICS engineers Ensures all cloud network infrastructure engineering patterns are designed with appropriate level of proactive monitoring resilience and dynamic failover to meet internal and client SLA requirements Works with the cloud network operations team to ensure the smooth transition of new network patters automaton and monitoring patterns into production Firewall design and implementation Stakeholder Engagement and Public Cloud Automation Roadmap Adoption - 15 Actively perform research to remain up to date around new public cloud network capabilities and how these align to Assurant Enterprise Cloud strategy and opportunities Works with enterprise architecture principal cloud and security engineers and business unit IT teams to understand the future needs around new public cloud automation and integration Ensures new engineered network capabilities to meet all cost reliability and scale requirements as well as any physical hosting restrictions Responsibility for work of others If applicable indicate job titles and number of direct report to this position Works with team of principal engineers and lead engineers from ICS Enterprise and application architects Cloud Network engineering scope will cross all components of network services integrating with security and other infrastructure services i e compute storage databases and middleware Financial Responsibility Include any budget responsibility- expense management or revenue Develops catalog of cloud network and integration services that can be adopted across the enterprise keeping the cost effectiveness as a consideration Enables affordable public cloud adoption and maintain availability through secured network design along with the automation of network services What are the requirements needed for this position Overall Work Exp 10 Years Bachelor s degree in engineering or computer science 7 years of experience in network infrastructure engineering in senior roles with experience in engineering architecture security and automation specially in large public and private cloud environments 2 Plus Experience in design and build of cloud related networking solutions i e Direct connectivity to cloud providers Firewall segmentation and Zero Trust implementations Enterprise Experience in design and delivery of network services as Infrastructure as a code Proven experience in designing and building micro segmentation for security and compliance positioning Proven experience in designing and building data center network solutions large scale modern data centers public and private clouds Demonstrated thought and technical leadership in the above areas Proven experience of working in newly established organizations following agile practices Experience in technical leadership role in delivering multi- M infrastructure investment cases and delivering on the value proposition of better faster and cheaper through automation for the entire life cycle Experience of engineering at high scale in at least 1 of the major 3 public Experience of developing infrastructure as code and working in DevSecOps practices Experience in working with cross functional enterprise Centers of Excellence which include international resources What other requirements that would be helpful to have Experience with and understanding of the deliverables and value proposition of public cloud engineering Experience with Ansible Python Terraform Experience delivering business-centric integrated technology solutions at an international scale Experience in working with matrix organization Ability to organize and lead diverse groups toward common goals through influence Tenure in operational roles across compute storage middleware and network technologies Experience in DR and BCP solutions and engineering Strong understanding of corporate strategy and how technology supports and enables Deep understanding of technology trends and a broad knowledge of technology products and vendors Experience influencing significant positive change at different technical levels of an organization Experience establishing long-term collaborative relationships at management and technical levels of an organization Experience in developing cost benefit analysis around technology decisions Enterprise-mindset ability to identify opportunities that maximize benefit to the enterprise as a whole Systems and conceptual thinking ability to capture the key elements of a system into a simple abstraction that empowers good decisions Critical and analytical thinking ability to analyze multiple long and short-term competing factors to arrive at high-quality recommendations Communication ability to effectively communicate written verbal and presentation skills to multiple levels within the business and technology organizations Intellectual curiosity ability to learn quickly and with enthusiasm What other the Preferred Experience Skills and Knowledge Preferred Experience and Knowledge Master s degree in engineering or computer science with 5 years of experience or Bachelor s degree with 10 years of working experience Experience in multiple Fortune 500 companies in different industries Experience of working with outsource partners supporting business critical infrastructure services Broad experience of multiple industries gained from working in engineering roles at different companies