Position Title: Senior Network Engineer
REPORTING TO: Network Team Lead, Food, Feed & Agro Testing Europe
GEOGRAPHICAL REPORTING LOCATION: India
WORKING LOCATION: Bangalore, India
OVERALL OBJECTIVES:
As a member of the IT Infrastructure Support Team at Eurofins Food, Feed & Agro Testing Europe, you will join a growing international crew to work on the maintenance of recently deployed segregated IT User Zones and Application Availability Groups. Your role will involve supporting daily operational tasks, including designing and implementing new infrastructure or migrating existing network components in line with current standards. You will collaborate with various IT Support and Delivery Teams daily, which will require networking and network security skills. An open mind and the ability to cooperate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds are essential.
SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS:
- Support and maintain current IT User Zones and IT Application Availability Groups network infrastructure.
- Design, plan and implement network IT Infrastructure for transformation / integration / segregation throughout Food, Feed & Agro testing businesses across Europe. These projects will be aimed to perform installations, configuration, and migrations of enterprise-level network IT infrastructure systems from legacy to the new solutions.
- Propose and deliver solutions that best meet the business needs in terms of security, cost, and bandwidth.
- Work close with Server, Cloud, Application team members do deliver the IT Infrastructure as wider project. Act based on the end-to-end view of the infrastructure.
- Document the solutions delivered.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
An ideal candidate should possess a minimum of 8+ years of experience in most of the following areas:
- Next Generation Firewalls (FortiGate), NSE4 level.
- Hands-on experience in maintaining network components (Firewalls, Switches, Wifi AP, VPN, SD-WAN) including firmware upgrades and downgrades.
- Proficiency in various protocols: TCP/IP, SNMP, 802.1Q, STP, SSLVPN.
- Familiarity with FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSwitch, and FortiAP.
- Ability to read, comprehend, and create technical documentation for delivered solutions.
- A collaborative team player who can effectively work with cross-functional teams.
- Excellent command of written and spoken English.
- Strong presentation skills to communicate technical projects effectively in meetings.
- Cisco switches administration
- Experience with protocols such as DNS, DHCP, NTP, and HTTP.
- Hands on experience in automation related to network tasks. (Any language)
Any of below skills would provide a significant advantage:
- Familiarity with Next Generation Firewalls (Checkpoint).
- Knowledge of dynamic routing such as BGP, OSPF, etc.
- Fortinet certifications / training (NSE4, NSE5, NSE7).
- Quality of Service (QoS) implementation.
- Experience in C# or phyton.
- Cisco Certification (CCNA, CCNP)
- Experience in network monitoring site24x7.
- Experience in Azure Networking.
- Experience in ticketing tool - ServiceNow.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Successful teamwork experience and demonstrated leadership abilities are required
- Proven ability to transfer knowledge and stay aware of current trends and technical advancements
- Ability to articulate and present different points-of-views on various technologies
