Network Engineering Senior Associate - Operate

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• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firms code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

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Managed Services

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The Network Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing and optimizing the organization’s data communications networks. You will partner with IT architects, security teams and application owners to deliver scalable, resilient and secure LAN, WAN and cloud‐based network solutions. This role blends hands‐on configuration with strategic planning, capacity forecasting and automation.

Minimum Degree Required: Bachelors

Degree Preferred

Bachelors or master’s in science, Computer Science, Engineering

Minimum Years of Experience: 4 -8 year(s)

Certifications Required

• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP Enterprise) or Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
• Juniper Networks Certified Professional (JNCIP-ENT)
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty or Azure Network Engineer Associate
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or CompTIA Security+
  
  

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Required / Mandatory Knowledge/Skills: (character count limit 5000) *PLEASE ONLY USE THIS FIELD IF THIS IS A MUST HAVE SKILL FOR APPLICANT*

Design and deploy network solutions – LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless (Wi-Fi 6/6E), data center fabrics and cloud networking (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Configure and maintain routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, EIGRP), VLANs, VRFs, multicast, MPLS and QoS policies
• Manage network security controls – firewalls, VPNs (site-to-site, client VPN), IDS/IPS, NAC and secure remote access
• Implement high-availability architectures using redundancy protocols (HSRP/VRRP), load balancers and clustering technologies
• Monitor network performance with tools like SolarWinds, PRTG, NetScout or equivalent; analyze logs and SNMP/flow data to troubleshoot latency or packet-loss issues
• Develop and maintain network diagrams, IP addressing schemes, configuration standards and runbooks
• Lead network capacity planning, performance tuning and technology refresh projects
• Automate network provisioning, configuration backups and compliance audits using Python, Ansible, Terraform or similar tools
• Collaborate on cloud-native networking projects: VPC/VNet design, transit gateways, Direct Connect/VPN integrations and service mesh connectivity
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis and post-mortems for network outages or security incidents
• Evaluate new networking technologies (SDN, intent-based networking, Wi-Fi advancements) and provide recommendations for adoption
• Provide Level-2/3 support, mentor junior engineers and liaise with vendors or third-party integrators as needed
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of hands-on network engineering in medium to large enterprise or service provider environments
• Strong proficiency with Cisco (IOS/XE/ NX-OS), Juniper (Junos), Aruba or equivalent vendor platforms
• Deep understanding of TCP/IP suite, spanning tree variants, IP multicast, MPLS and VPN architectures
• Experience with network security concepts: stateful firewalls, IDS/IPS, SSL inspection and zero-trust segmentation
• Familiarity with network automation and Infrastructure as Code (Python, Ansible, Terraform, REST APIs)
• Solid grasp of cloud networking services (AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, Azure Virtual WAN, Google Cloud Interconnect)
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and documentation skills
• Effective verbal and written communication; ability to explain complex network issues to technical and non-technical audiences
• Willingness to be on-call for escalations and occasional travel to data centers or branch locations
  
  

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Following are some of the key tools that the candidate should have experience with –

Aruba, Palo Alto Firewall, Fortinet, Cisco ASA, Palo Alto Prisma Access, Palo Alto Strata Cloud Manager, Palo Alto Coretex XSOAR, Elisity, Claroty Medigate,. F5 Local Balancers (GTM and LTM), Akamai, Alkira, Cloud – AWS, Azure, GCP, Beyond Trust PRA (Privileged Remote Access), Infoblox DNS/DHC/IPAM/GTM, Meraki, Ciena MCP

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