Associate Lead, Network Engineer

• Own day-to-day network operations, including incident and outage response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Define and track KPIs, SLAs, and operational metrics.
• Drive network automation initiatives using scripting, deployment automation and infrastructure-as-code methodologies
• Improve operational efficiency through automated alerting, remediation workflows, and self-healing network capabilities.
• Create executive operational reports and status dashboards.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8+ years of network engineering/operations experience.
• 3+ years of leadership or team lead experience.
• Experience supporting large enterprise or global network environments
• Strong knowledge of:
• Routing & Switching (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, STP)
• F5 BIG-IP platform (WAF, LTM, AFM)
• SD-WAN and wireless networking
• Network monitoring tools
• Incident and change management processes
• Experience with enterprise environments and 24x7 operations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to executive leadership, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to lead meetings, drive collaboration, manage escalations, and present operational updates to technical and non-technical audiences

• CCNP, CCIE, F5, AWS/Azure networking certifications.
• Work with multi-national
• Work experience with in an environment of 10000+ users
• Experience with:
• Cisco ACI
• ClearPass NAC
• Network automation (Python, Ansible)
• ITIL processes
• Manufacturing or healthcare industry experience preferred.

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