Key Responsibilities
Lead the overall network strategy, architecture, and operations to ensure a secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure.
- Network Strategy & Architecture: Define and execute a 3–5 year roadmap covering data center, branch (WAN/SD-WAN), and cloud (GCP/hybrid) environments, driving standardization and automation.
- Operations & Reliability: Ensure 99.9%+ network availability; oversee LAN, WAN, WiFi, VPN, firewalls, and load balancers; lead monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Security & Compliance: Enforce Zero Trust principles, network segmentation, and security controls (firewalls, IDS/IPS); ensure compliance with ISO 27001/27701 and PCI DSS.
- Data Center & DR: Align network design with data center strategy (active-active/passive) and ensure readiness for disaster recovery and failover.
- Vendor & Cost Management: Manage vendors (e.g., Cisco, Fortinet, Telco) and optimize network and cloud costs, including contract negotiation and capacity planning.
- Leadership & Governance: Lead and develop engineering teams, define standards and SOPs, and provide executive reporting on KPIs, risks, and roadmap progress.
Experience, Requirements & Skills
- Strong expertise in IT infrastructure, networking (BGP, OSPF, VLAN, STP, VXLAN), and L2/L3 design
- Experience with data center fabric (spine-leaf) and high availability architecture
- Hands-on in security networking: firewalls (Fortinet, Palo Alto), VPN (IPSec/SSL), NAC, and Zero Trust
- Experience in GCP networking: VPC, peering, load balancing, and hybrid connectivity (VPN/Interconnect)
- Familiar with monitoring tools (Zabbix, Grafana, Dynatrace) and automation (Python, Ansible preferred)
- 10–15+ years of networking experience, including 5+ years in leadership roles
- Experience in large-scale enterprise networks and multi-data center environments
- Background in financial services or regulated industries is a plus
