Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster.

At Diligent, we're building the future with people who think boldly and move fast. Whether you're designing systems that leverage large language models or part of a team reimaging workflows with AI, you'll help us unlock entirely new ways of working and thinking. The future belongs to those who keep learning, and we are building it together. At Diligent, you're not just building the future - you're an agent of positive change, joining a global community on a mission to make an impact.

You'll be a senior hands-on Network Engineer at the center of highly available, global infrastructure. You'll design, run, and improve enterprise and data center networks that thousands of users and critical applications rely on every day.

You'll work across routing, switching, firewalls, SD‑WAN, and load balancing, primarily using Cisco, Fortinet, and F5 technologies. You'll be the person others turn to for complex troubleshooting, resilient network design, and modernization initiatives across enterprise and private cloud environments.

If you enjoy solving tough networking problems, shaping network architecture, and partnering with security, cloud, and operations teams to keep things fast, secure, and reliable, this role gives you room to grow your technical depth and influence.

Design, deploy, and support enterprise and private cloud network infrastructure across production and non‑production environments.

Troubleshoot and resolve complex Layer 2/Layer 3 issues in mission‑critical, high‑availability networks.

Configure and optimize Cisco Catalyst and Nexus platforms, including WAN, campus, and data center networking with BGP and OSPF.





Lead incident/root cause analysis, contribute to modernization projects, and maintain clear technical documentation, standards, and network diagrams.

7+ years of hands-on experience as a Network Engineer in an enterprise or data center environment.

- Robust expertise with Cisco enterprise networking (Catalyst and/or Nexus), including Layer 2/3, VLANs, STP, HSRP/VRRP, QoS, ACLs, and NAT.
- Practical experience with dynamic routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF.
- Working experience managing Fortinet FortiGate or similar next‑generation firewalls, including VPNs and security policies.
- Experience supporting load balancers or application delivery controllers (ideally F5 BIG‑IP).
- Comfortable working in high-pressure production environments, including maintenance windows and critical incidents.
- Experience working across multi-site or global networks, and familiarity with cloud networking (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Exposure to automation or infrastructure-as-code tools (for example, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or APIs).

We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs. (among others) Diversity is important to us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.

To foster strong collaboration and connection, this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations, you will be expected to work onsite at least 50% of the time. We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.

📌 Senior CISCO Network Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Diligent
📍 Bengaluru