Western Digital is hiring a

Principal Network Engineer

Bengaluru, India
Full-Time

You will be part of our Global Network Services team responsible for implementing, maintaining, and optimizing our global network infrastructure, ensuring high network performance/reliability, and delivering critical network services to meet business goals. 

Essentials Duties and Responsibilities: 

  • Plan, build, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot global network infrastructure to ensure high resiliency/reliability.  

  • Support complex Manufacturing/Office LAN/WAN/VPN and wireless infrastructure. 

  • Implement changes to hardware and/or software that improve network performance, speed and connectivity. 

  • Troubleshoot network issues related to BGP, OSPF, VLAN, Spanning Tree, WAN, network hardware/software, wireless etc. 

  • Align with Global Network architecture team to incorporate company standards and preferred practices into regional site network builds. 

  • Ensure global network infrastructure is properly monitored. Act as a network engineering point of contact and Subject Matter Expert to respond to network incidents/service requests according to Service Level Agreements.  

  • Partner with Security or Cyber Defense team to fix detected vulnerabilities with systems and users to maintain high security standard. 

  • Interact/communicate with vendors, service providers, peers, stakeholders, and business units for effective integration/operations of services and systems. 

  • Lead, plan and participate in IT projects and Maintenance Window activities. 

  • Maintain close collaboration with other global IT functional teams. 

  • Create and maintain complex network documentation and can self-manage projects. 

Required Skills: 

  • 8+ years professional experience in Network Routing, Switching, Wireless (Cisco/ Aruba), and Network Security. 

  • Hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge in networking technologies/solutions including BGP, OSPF, HA, VLAN, Spanning Tree, EtherChannel, QoS, WAN, etc. 

  • Excellent communication skills on technical and non-technical concepts. 

  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to establish professional working relationships with varying levels of both business and technical personnel. 

  • Maintains good knowledge of standards and best practices in basic networking (Ethernet, TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, NTP, SNMP, IPSec, NAT, DNS, DHCP, SYSLOG, etc.) 

  • Good documentation skills including creating and maintaining network diagrams. 

  • Good project management, analytical and problem determination/resolution skills. 

  • Familiar with Linux/Unix administration and programming (i.e. Ansible, Python) 

  • Familiar with network scanning/analysis procedures and toolsets for network readiness assessments. 

  • A great teammate, a fast learner, with a focus on getting stuff done 

 

Preferred Skills: 

  • Working knowledge of Aruba ClearPass and Infoblox is a huge PLUS 

  • Good understanding of network design practices from small offices to large campuses is a plus. 

  • Good understanding of data center networking technologies is a plus. 

  • Experience working in a manufacturing environment is a plus. 

  • Technical certification such as CCNP/CCIE or equivalent is preferred. 

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution. 

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying. 

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution. 

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying. 

NOTICE TO CANDIDATES: Western Digital has received reports of scams where a payment is requested on Western Digital’s behalf as a condition for receiving an offer of employment. Please be aware that Western Digital and its subsidiaries will never request payment as a condition for applying for a position or receiving an offer of employment. Should you encounter any such requests, please report it immediately to [email protected]

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