Network Engineer ||

Position Name: Network Engineer
Experience: 3-8 Years
Location: Hyderabad
Accountabilities and Responsibilities
• Deploy and maintain the Paragon network infrastructure (Switches, Routers, Wifi, Load Balancers,
Firewalls)
• Support Paragon’s in-house and cloud-based networks, respond to tickets within agreed SLA’s ensuring all
incidents are resolved and documented
• Accountable for Paragon’s network boundary and security systems covering IDS/IPS, Advanced threat
prevention, Web content filtering, DNS protection, and DLP
• Management and Configuration of all network devices in line with industry best practices and regulatory
controls across routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN and Wi-fi.
• Monitor network performance and ensure system availability and reliability.
• Resolve network issues escalated by ticket or direct notification
• Automate tasks and monitor their effectiveness.
• Escalation management, 3rd line support, and development of the Paragon Global network
• Create, oversee, and test security measures (e.g. access authentication and disaster recovery).
• Create, update and maintain complete technical documentation.
• Suggest improvements to network performance, capacity, and scalability.
• Required to perform out of hours work upon agreement and will be part of an on-call rota for Incident
support and resolution
• Perform system maintenance, patching and updates ensuring compliance with Paragon’s security policies
and controls.
Competencies
• Technical Expertise – Advanced Formal training or equivalent experience in Networking systems design,
configuration and support
• Relationship Management - Able to communicate clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical
personnel. This may include contact with Paragon’s clients.
• Able to deliver a clear message instilling confidence in the Technology team to deliver results. Able to
demonstrate good written and verbal communication, influencing and negotiation skills
• Customer Management - Able to work with internal and external customers to establish/validate
requirements. Understands that colleagues in the business are customers and adopts a Service Excellence
ethos. Able to communicate effectively with non-technical staff
• Quality Management - Understands Paragon’s Quality policy and able to follow standard operating
procedures
• Change Management – Understands and adheres fully to Paragon’s Change Management procedure
• Project Management – Understands the Paragon Technology Project methodology and complies with
standards set. Communicates in a timely manner on any assigned actions, risks, issues and dependencies.
Defines, documents and carries out service improvements within the Paragon network.
• ITIL – Foundation course completed, understands and follows ITIL practices and procedures
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team with excellent organisational and mentoring skills.
Skills
• Strong knowledge of routing protocols, including BGP, OSPF and EIGRP.
• Extensive experience with campus networking technologies (Cisco, Juniper and HP).
• Strong expertise in wireless networking (Meraki and Ruckus).
• Experience with datacentre networking, including Cisco Nexus and NDFC, Arista CloudVision, EVPN
VXLAN, and Juniper/Cisco routing platforms.
• Experience with IPsec VPN technologies.
• Strong knowledge and experience of Palo Alto firewalls.
• Additional experience with Cisco ASA, Fortinet and Juniper SRX firewalls.
• Strong background in load balancing and WAF technologies (F5, Kemp and Imperva).
• Hands-on experience with network management and monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, NetBox, Cisco
ISE and Zabbix.
• Experience in network automation, particularly with Ansible and Python, would be highly advantageous.
• Public cloud networking experience across Azure, Oracle Cloud, Megaport and AWS.
• Experience with Arista Velocloud SD‑WAN (highly desirable).
• Experience supporting PCI-compliant environments.
Qualifications
• Proven experience as a Network Engineer.
• CCNA Certified, CCNP is highly desirable.
• Palo Alto, AWS and Azue certifications highly desirable.
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

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