Job highlights

- 12-16 years experience in enterprise networking or network security with CCNP Security or equivalent and cloud certifications
- Lead end-to-end lifecycle of enterprise network security services, manage service performance, provide design authority, lead incident response, and drive security transformation programs

- Job Location: PAN India
- Work Model: Work from Office
- Candidate ExpectationsTotal Experience and Relevant Experience: 12 to 16 years
- Candidate Location: Anywhere in India
- Skills- Enterprise Networking or Network Security
- Education and CertificationQualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems,Business, or a related discipline.
- CCNP Security or equivalent Cisco security certificationPalo Alto Networks PCNSEZscaler ZIA/ZPA Administrator or Zscaler DigitalTransformation certificationITIL Foundation or advanced IT service-management certification Relevant cloud certification in Azure, AWS or GCP

Detailed

Key Skills

- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of enterprise Network Securityservices, including strategy, architecture, engineering, transition, operationsand optimisationEstablish transparent service ownership, operating procedures,escalation paths and accountability across internal technology teams.
- Define annual service roadmaps covering platform upgrades,security improvements, automation, technology refresh, resilience and legacyretirement.
- Manage service performance, capacity, availability, risks,dependencies, technical debt and operational readiness.
- Act as the management escalation point for significantservice, delivery, stakeholder and vendor issues.
- Balance operational stability with security transformationand business delivery priorities.




- Provide design authority for network security solutionsacross corporate environments, data centres, remote users, cloud platforms,business units, merged entities and isolated environments.
- Review and approve high-level and low-level designs,security patterns, traffic-flow diagrams, migration approaches, implementationplans and operational acceptance criteria.
- Govern technical standards for firewalls, RAVPN, IPSectunnels, Cisco ISE, ZIA, ZPA, App Connectors, traffic forwarding and endpointposture.
- Ensure architecture decisions align with Zero Trust, leastprivilege, segmentation and defence-in-depth principles.
- Maintain sufficient technical depth to guide engineeringteams, challenge vendor recommendations, approve designs and support criticalescalations across Firewalls, Remote Access and IPSec VPN, Cisco ISE andZscaler ZIA and ZPA domains.
- Ensure effective L3/L4 support for firewall, RAVPN, IPSec,ISE, ZIA and ZPA services.
- Lead or oversee P1/P2 incidents, technical war rooms andexecutive escalations.
- Coordinate troubleshooting across network, security,endpoint, identity, cloud, application, vendor and service-management teams.
- Ensure Network Security platforms comply with corporatesecurity baselines, internal standards and applicable control frameworks.
- Partner with Corporate Security and Audit teams to provideevidence for firewall governance, endpoint posture,



identity enforcement,vulnerability remediation and access controls.
- Support NIST, ISO, internal audit and regulatory evidencerequirements as applicable.
- Lead security transformation programmes involvingRAVPN-to-ZPA migration, firewall optimisation, application segmentationand cloud-security adoption.
- Lead, coach and develop a team of Network Security engineersand technical leads.
- Build effective relationships with Corporate Security,Architecture, IAM, Endpoint, Cloud, Network Operations, Service Management andbusiness stakeholders.
- Translate technical issues and risks into clear businessimpact, decisions and investment requirements.
- Manage engineering and escalation relationships with Cisco,Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler and implementation partners.
- Review vendor proposals, statements of work, architecturerecommendations and product roadmaps.
- Hold vendors accountable for defect resolution, root-causefindings, security fixes, platform reliability and delivery commitments.
- Coordinate complex incidents and interoperability issuesinvolving multiple providers.
- Ensure all material decisions, responsibilities anddependencies are captured through documented RACI and governance structures Mandatory Key Skills: Provide technical and operational leadership for enterprisenetwork security services across traditional firewall, remote-access,identity-based access, and cloud-delivered Zero Trust technologies.
- Experiencein enterprise networking or network security, including substantial experiencein technical leadership or service management.
- Good to Have Skills:Demonstrated experience managing Network Securityengineering or operations teams in a large, distributed enterprise.

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