Requisition Number

50266BR

Job Description and Requirements

Network Engineering, Sr Staff

The Engineering Excellence Group drives innovation velocity and enterprise infrastructure automation, which are critical elements of our growth and scaling strategy. This team is chartered to drive significant productivity, robustness, agility, and time-to-market advantage in the creation of Synopsys products and solutions. The group also leads corporate infrastructure transformation as we continue to drive IT operations leadership and invest in the next wave of disruptive technologies.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate and create designs and architectural approaches for Enterprise Network.
• Provide thought leadership, strategy, and lead innovation by exploring, investigating, recommending, benchmarking, and implementing technologies for SDN and service orchestration.
• Network Engineering, Sr Staff will provide in-depth Network & Security Operations subject matter expertise and guidance to executive management as well as other stakeholders responsible for the positioning, planning, and delivery of Network services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal disruption to business operations.
• Liaise with various vendors and suppliers to improve and optimize existing Network Services.
• Provide technological vision and strategy for Network transformation. Responsible for complex Network design and changes within a global enterprise network.
• Lead the architecture discussions to work through risk, security, capacity, and performance concerns.
• Maintain vulnerability management processes and policies using a risk-based priority methodology.
• Identify and implement opportunities for process automation and improvement.

Required Skills

• Extensive experience with Vulnerability Management Scanning Tools (e.g., Qualys, Rapid7, Tenable, Wiz, etc.)
• Expertise in Enterprise Network Architecture and Security.
• Enterprise security knowledge and skills: Internet/DMZ/Internal Firewalls, Identity Access Management (IAM), Penetration Testing, Risk Management, Security Information Event Management (SIEM), and Web Proxy Services.
• Hands-on experience with various areas of network security, such as NGFWs, IDS/IPS, WAFs, SSE/SASE, SWG, CASB, DLP and ZTNA.
• Demonstrated experience and success with completion of risk assessments and vulnerability assessments.
• Demonstrated experience and success with development and promulgation of enterprise-class security policy and standards.
• Strong knowledge across the technology stack such as web protocols, multiple operating systems, hypervisors, and distributed systems architecture.
• Extensive experience in infrastructure and cloud security, including best practices in cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, OCI, or Azure.
• Experience as a multidomain security SME.
• Network device configuration and infrastructure automation skills using tools such as PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Cisco DNA, etc.
• Strategic thinking, identifying dependencies and complexity of changes, with technical capacity to communicate with business units and drive major changes.

Experience & Education

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, or related fields.
• 15+ years of relevant experience in design & implementation of LAN / WAN, Firewalls, Load balancers, Wireless Network Infrastructure and large-scale network migrations including Data Centres.
• Proficiency with the design, implementation, and configuration of Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Cloud networking & security solutions (e.g., NGFW / SSE / SASE).
• Expertise in Design & Implementation of Cisco ACI and SD WAN solutions.
• Expert level knowledge of Layer-2 and Layer 3 network technologies; highly proficient and hands on experience in the inter-networking technologies i.e., IGP (OSPF/ISIS), BGP, Multicast, MPLS, VXLAN.
• Proven working experience with Next-Generation Firewalls (i.e., Palo Alto firewalls), IPS/IDS, WAF and DDOS.
• Proven experience with network management and monitoring systems.
• Experience with Cloud Networking technologies (i.e., MS Azure, AWS, Google Cloud platform) and SASE architecture.
• Ability to Strategize and Simplify Network Services landscape with focus on continuous improvement of service and enhancing user experience.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with business stakeholders and navigate across conflicting priorities to balance critical tactical and strategic needs.
• Self-directed, self-motivated, and driven who can fill in the gaps as to what is needed, and to drive expected results.
• Professional certifications (Palo Alto or Cisco) required; CCIE (Enterprise Infrastructure) preferred.

Hiring Location

INDIA – Bangalore, INDIA – Hyderabad

Hire Type

Employee

Job Category

Information Technology

Job Subcategory

Network Engineering

Country

India

Business Title (Title for Job Posting)

Network Engineering, Sr Staff

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