Lead the planning, design, and implementation of robust LAN, WAN, Data Centre, and SDN/SD-WAN solutions.
Prepare and present High-Level Designs (HLD), Low-Level Designs (LLD), and technical solution proposals to customers.
Engage directly with customers to understand requirements, present solutions, and manage technical conversations.
Oversee project delivery, ensuring successful implementation, issue resolution, and customer satisfaction.
Guide and mentor a team of network engineers and SMEs, driving technical excellence and team development.
Serve as the technical escalation point (L3/L4) for complex network issues and critical incidents.
Define and enforce network documentation standards, maintaining a comprehensive engineering document library.
Collaborate with OEMs, vendors, and cross-functional teams for solution design, product evaluation, and integration.
Lead network migration, integration, and transformation projects, including service recovery and improvement initiatives.
Conduct network audits, provide advisory services, and drive technology adoption and digital transformation.
Support RFP/RFQ/RFI responses and participate in peer review processes for architectures, designs, and standards.

15+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise network architecture, design, and operations.
Proven experience leading projects and operations for customer environments.
Strong fundamentals in Routing & Switching OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, STP, RSTP, MSTP, VTP, EtherChannel, HSRP, VRRP, VSS, VPC, VDC, FEX, FabricPath
Hands-on experience architecting and delivering solutions on: Velo-Cloud SDWAN, ISE, Aruba ClearPass, Prisma Access, SDN/SD-WAN platforms, SolarWinds Orion, Arista cloud vision
Experience with network security platforms Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, FortiGate and network access control.
Cloud networking expertise: Must have worked on Azure networking Vnet, Virtual Network Gateways, Site-to-Site IPsec connections, Network Security Group, Virtual network Gateway, Local Network Gateway, Route Tables & management, etc. AWS Networking VPC, Transit gateway, Direct-connect, CloudWatch, IGW, NAT GW, Security Groups, ALB, NLB, GLB Certificate manager, R53, Multi-cloud Integrations.
Certification Requirements: CCNP or equivalent certification is mandatory
Azure AZ-700, AWS ANS-C01 or equivalent certification is mandatory

Manager – Cloud & Infra Engineering

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