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Network Operations Support - Firewall Load Balancer

Experience: 8-10 Years

Location: Chennai/Bangalore

Role Summary:

The Manager - BPN Firewall provides strategic and technical leadership for enterprise and banking network security programs. This role is accountable for end-to-end IT solution delivery, stakeholder management, and governance of complex, mission-critical security deployments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Overall accountability for delivery of network security solutions across banking infrastructure programs

- Act as subject matter expert for Next Generation Firewalls and enterprise security architectures

- Architect, review, and govern security solutions involving Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Load Balancers, F5, and Proxies

- Lead adoption and integration of emerging technologies such as Software Defined Networks (NSX)

- Ensure compliance, security hardening, and audit readiness of firewall platforms

- Provide leadership for automation initiatives using shell scripting

- Manage multiple dependencies, vendors, and senior stakeholders in large-scale deployments

- Proactively identify risks, anticipate issues, and recommend strategic solutions





- Mentor senior engineers and drive operational excellence

Key Skills Technology Requirements:

- Network Security Architecture Design

- Next Generation Firewalls: FortiGate, Cisco Firepower / ASA

- Security Platforms: IDS/IPS, VPN, Proxy, Network Segmentation

- Load Balancing ADC: F5 (LTM / GTM)

- Enterprise Network Technologies: Routing, Switching, WAN

- Software Defined Networking: VMware NSX (advanced concepts governance)

Required Skills Experience:

- 8+ years of experience in banking or large enterprise infrastructure environments

- Extensive expertise in Network Firewalls Security products (FortiGate, Cisco)

- Proven experience managing large-scale, multi-vendor security deployments

- Robust leadership, communication, and presentation skills

- Demonstrated integrity, ownership, and decision-making capability

Other Qualification and requirement:

Any degree or relevant education is must. This role requires working at customer locations based on business needs.

📌 Manager - Network Operations & Support (Chennai)
🏢 Tata Communications
📍 Chennai