Job Description

You will be part of our Global Network engineering team responsible for implementing, maintaining, and optimizing our regional/local network infrastructure, ensuring high network performance/reliability, and delivering critical network services to meet business goals.

Essentials Duties and Responsibilities:

- Plan, deploy, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot global network infrastructure at Corporate and manufacturing locations to meet the business requirements and growth demands, ensuring availability and performance.

- Support complex Manufacturing/Office LAN, WAN, Firewall, SDWAN and wireless infrastructure.

- Implement changes to hardware and/or software that improve network performance, speed, and connectivity.

- Troubleshoot network issues related to BGP, SD-WAN, VLAN, Spanning Tree, Security, network hardware/software, wireless, DHCP, DNS, etc.

- Align with the Global Network architecture team to incorporate company standards and preferred practices into regional site network builds.

- Ensure that global network infrastructure is properly monitored. Act as a network engineering point of contact and Subject Matter Expert to respond to network incidents/service requests according to Service Level Agreements.

- Partner with Security or Cyber Defense team to fix detected vulnerabilities with systems and users to maintain high security standards.

- Interact/communicate with vendors, service providers, peers, stakeholders, and business units for effective integration/operations of services and systems.

- Lead, plan and participate in IT projects and Maintenance Window activities.

- Maintain close collaboration with other global IT functional teams.

- Create and maintain complex network documentation and self-manage projects. Qualifications

Required Skills:

- 8+ years of experience in deploying and operating large global enterprise networking infrastructure





- Extensive experience in IP networking, L2/L3 network protocols (spanning-tree, OSPF, BGP), TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, end to end QOS, VLAN, VRRP, LACP, LAG, ACL, NAC, and infrastructure cabling

- Extensive experience in a multi-vendor environment including Arista and Cisco.

- Bachelor s Degree and 8+ years professional experience in Network Routing, Switching, Firewall and Campus Wireless.

- Hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge in networking technologies/solutions including BGP, OSPF, SD-WAN, VLAN, Spanning Tree, EtherChannel, QoS, DHCP, and DNS.

- Extensive experience with NextGen firewall services including IPSEC VPN, and IPS/IDF, Advance treat defense, security policies.

- Experience with various tools such as SNMP, NetFlow, IPAM, RADIUS, and Splunk.

- Proficiency in version control, configuration management (Git/Ansible), and network automation to contribute effectively in a fast-paced deployment environment.

- Good documentation skills include creating and maintaining network diagrams.

- Good project management, analytical, and problem determination/resolution skills.

- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to establish skilled working relationships with varying levels of both business and technical personnel.

- A great teammate, a fast learner, with a focus on getting stuff done

Preferred Skills:

- Working knowledge of Wireless and Infoblox - DDI is a huge PLUS

- Good understanding of network design practices from small offices to large campuses is a plus.

- Valuable understanding of data center networking technologies is a plus.

- Experience working in a manufacturing environment is a plus.

- Technical certifications such as CCNP/CCIE or equivalent is preferred.

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📌 Senior Network Engineer (Karnataka)
🏢 Western Digital
📍 Karnataka