Senior / Lead Infra Engineer, Network Practice (Day 2)

The Network Team Lead will oversee day-to-day operations of the enterprise network, ensuring high availability, security, and performance across campus, branch, wireless, and cloud environments. The role includes managing a team of network engineers, leading incident resolution, implementing best practices, and maintaining compliance with enterprise security standards.

What will you do?

Operational Management

• Lead daily network operations, including incident management, service requests, change execution, and performance monitoring.
• Maintain high availability for LAN, WAN, WLAN (wireless), cloud, and hybrid network services.
• Conduct proactive health checks, capacity planning, and troubleshooting for network infrastructure.
• Ensure accurate documentation, diagrams, CMDB updates, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Technical Leadership

• Manage and optimize enterprise network platforms including:
  • Switching & Routing: Cisco, Alcatel
  • Wireless LAN (WLAN): Cisco and Alcatel WLCs and Aps
  • NAC / Policy Management: Aruba ClearPass
  • Firewalls: Check Point, Palo Alto (AWS & On-Prem)
  • Load Balancers: F5 BIG-IP
  • Proxy / Web Security Solutions
• Oversee SD-WAN deployments and operations, ensuring optimal path selection and hybrid connectivity.
• Implement network and security hardening, including firewall policies, segmentation, vulnerability remediation, and zero-trust principles.
• Support cloud networking (AWS VPCs, Transit Gateways, Direct Connect, VPNs).

Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of network engineers.
• Allocate tasks, review work, and ensure adherence to operational standards.
• Act as escalation point for major incidents and vendor interactions.
• Drive team adoption of automation and monitoring tools to improve operational efficiency.

Collaboration & Reporting

• Collaborate with security, cloud, application, and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless operations.
• Present operational status, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Maintain compliance with enterprise security and audit requirements