Network Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Deliver hands-on administration, engineering, and technical support across LAN/WAN, wireless, VPN, firewalls, internet connectivity, and cloud networking.

• Oversee and enhance Cisco Meraki switching, routing, wireless, and security infrastructure, as well as Cisco VPN technologies.

• Monitor and consistently enhance network availability, performance, capacity, security, and resilience.

• Lead the technical response and resolution for complex or critical global network outages.

• Coordinate with internal teams and technology partners to restore services, identify root causes, and implement corrective measures.

• Maintain network configurations, diagrams, documentation, monitoring, and recovery protocols.

• Design and deploy secure, resilient, scalable, and supportable network solutions across offices, manufacturing facilities, cloud environments, and remote connectivity.

• Develop standards for network architecture, reference designs, configuration baselines, and engineering best practices.

• Guide network design and implementation for new sites, expansions, modernization, cloud connectivity, and infrastructure projects.

• Assess technology options and recommend solutions based on business requirements, security, reliability, performance, cost, and supportability.

• Ensure that new solutions include redundancy, security, monitoring, documentation, and operational readiness.

• Act as the technical owner and subject matter expert for enterprise networking.

• Define and lead network architecture, technical standards, best practices, lifecycle strategies, and technology roadmaps.

• Drive improvements in security, resilience, performance, automation, visibility, and cost efficiency.

• Provide technical guidance to internal teams and technology partners, and resolve complex technical issues.

• Evaluate emerging network and cloud technologies and recommend solutions that deliver business and operational value.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of hands-on experience in enterprise networking.

• Extensive knowledge of Cisco Meraki, switching, routing, wireless, firewalls, VPN, LAN/WAN, and internet connectivity.

• Experience in designing and supporting multi-site network environments, including new office, manufacturing plant, or facility implementations.

• Strong understanding of routing, switching, network segmentation, firewalls, VPN, security, and network resiliency.

• Working familiarity with Azure networking and cloud connectivity.

• Excellent troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, network monitoring, and performance management skills.

• Experience in designing and implementing network solutions, beyond merely administering existing environments.

• Ability to create technical designs, architecture diagrams, standards, documentation, and operational procedures.

• Exposure to network automation and scripting is a plus.

• Capacity to work independently and provide technical leadership in a lean IT environment.

• Preferred or desirable certifications include CCNA, CCNP or equivalent advanced networking certification, Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate, or other relevant certifications.

• Proven hands-on engineering capability, technical judgment, and ownership.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuing education.

• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work environment.

• Generous paid time off and holidays.