Network Engineer (Permanent)

Key Responsibilities

• Assess emerging network technologies through technical evaluations and PoCs, ensuring suitability for enterprise banking environments with a focus on scalability, resilience, and regulatory compliance.
• Serve as the network architecture SME, driving end-to-end solution design, planning, deployment, and validation for mission-critical environments.
• Design, implement, and support network and security solutions across LAN, SD-WAN, SASE, firewalls, load balancers, network automation, and observability platforms for data centers and branches across APAC.
• Develop advanced data center architectures including spine-leaf fabrics, VXLAN/EVPN, multi-site connectivity, disaster recovery, and highly available network designs.
• Architect and optimize routing, switching, transport, network virtualization, multi-tenancy, QoS, and Zero Trust segmentation using technologies such as BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, and Segment Routing.
• Produce and maintain architecture standards, HLDs, LLDs, design documents, operational procedures, and runbooks.
• Conduct architecture reviews, risk assessments, performance audits, and compliance evaluations, recommending improvements where required.
• Ensure infrastructure designs align with enterprise policies, governance standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide escalation support for major incidents and changes, driving root cause analysis and preventive actions.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, application, middleware, end-user computing, and project teams on design, implementation, and troubleshooting activities.
• Partner with regional and country teams across APAC to review architectures, resolve complex issues, and deliver network and security initiatives.
• Coordinate with vendors and service providers to ensure successful delivery in accordance with agreed SLAs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in network design, implementation, and management of large-scale network security environments.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with SASE, Cisco SD-WAN, Network Automation, and Observability solutions in large enterprise deployments.
• Strong expertise in enterprise and data center network infrastructure design and implementation.
• Proven experience deploying highly available, multi-layer data center networks.
• Hands-on knowledge of Cisco, F5, Check Point, Fortinet, and Palo Alto technologies.
• Experience with multi-vendor network automation and observability platforms.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in delivering end-to-end infrastructure solutions.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage both technical and leadership stakeholders.