Sr. Network Engineer

Location: Banglore, India

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Albemarle is hiring for a Senior Network Engineer. This position is hybrid and located in Bangalore, India.

Position Summary

The Senior Network Engineer / Corporate Firewall Platform Owner is a senior technical role responsible for the reliability, security, lifecycle, and strategic direction of the company’s corporate firewall platform, while also performing broad senior network engineering duties across a global enterprise. The role leads firewall platform standards and governance, provides hands-on engineering and operational support, and partners with a globally distributed virtual team to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable network services.

This position requires strong technical depth, platform ownership, sound operational judgment, and the ability to guide engineers, service providers, and business partners through complex changes and incidents across multiple regions and time zones.

Key Responsibilities

Corporate Firewall Platform Ownership

Own the corporate firewall platform strategy, architecture, engineering standards, lifecycle roadmap, and operational health across the global enterprise.

Serve as the technical authority and primary escalation point for firewall architecture, policy design, network segmentation, remote-access and site-to-site VPN services, threat prevention, logging, and centralized management.

Develop and maintain global firewall standards, reference architectures, documentation/diagrams, configuration baselines, SOP creation, naming conventions, rule-management practices, and operational procedures.

Lead platform lifecycle activities including capacity planning, software upgrades, patching, hardware refreshes, vulnerability remediation, feature adoption, and end-of-life planning.

Govern firewall changes to ensure security, reliability, consistency, documentation, testing, rollback planning, and compliance with change-control requirements.

Drive firewall policy hygiene through regular rule reviews, recertification, cleanup, risk reduction, and coordination with cybersecurity, application, cloud, and infrastructure teams.

Define and track platform health, availability, performance, supportability, and security metrics; identify trends and lead corrective actions.

Coordinate with vendors, managed service providers, and contractors; establish technical expectations, review deliverables, and hold partners accountable for service quality.

Provide technical leadership during major incidents and problem investigations, including root-cause analysis and implementation of preventive actions.

Senior Network Engineering

• Design, implement, support, and optimize enterprise LAN, WAN, Cloud, and network security services.
• Engineer routing, switching, segmentation, and connectivity solutions that support business requirements while maintaining security, resiliency, and operational simplicity.
• Troubleshoot complex network and application-connectivity issues using packet capture, flow analysis, logs, telemetry, and protocol-level diagnostics.
• Lead or contribute to global network projects, technology refreshes, site deployments, integrations, divestitures, and transformation initiatives.
• Monitor network capacity, availability, and performance; recommend improvements before service quality or business operations are affected.
• Create and maintain network diagrams, configuration standards, implementation plans, test plans, operational procedures, and support documentation.
• Participate in an on-call or escalation rotation and support high-severity incidents when required.
• Global Virtual Team Leadership and Collaboration
• Work effectively within a virtual network engineering team distributed across regions and time zones.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and peer review without relying on direct reporting authority.
• Coordinate cross-region work, handoffs, maintenance activities, incident response, and knowledge transfer to support consistent global operations.
• Communicate complex technical topics clearly to engineers, cybersecurity teams, infrastructure partners, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• Build productive working relationships with internal teams, external partners, vendors, and contractors in a multicultural environment.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or associate degree in information technology, engineering, computer science, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 7 or more years of progressive experience engineering and supporting enterprise-class networks in a large, multi-site environment.
• Demonstrated experience owning or leading an enterprise firewall platform, including architecture, operations, lifecycle management, standards, and governance.
• Advanced experience with next-generation firewalls and centralized management platforms; Fortinet, Cisco, Palo experience is highly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of firewall policy, security zones, network segmentation, NAT, VPN, IDS/IPS, logging, high availability, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Advanced enterprise routing and switching experience, including BGP, EIGRP or OSPF, VRF, VLAN, 802.1Q, spanning tree, QoS, and SD-WAN concepts.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise LAN, WAN, campus, branch, data center, and cloud connectivity and equipment in a global environment.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical changes and resolve high-impact incidents using disciplined change, incident, and problem-management practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to collaborate across cultures, functions, and time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• CCNP Enterprise, CCNP Security, CCIE, FCA, FCP or comparable vendor certification.
• Experience with Cisco Switching, BGP protocol, and Fortinet Firewalls.
• Experience working with globally distributed technical teams.
• Experience simplifying complex or legacy network environments and reducing technical debt.

Core Competencies

• Platform ownership and accountability
• Technical leadership and influence
• Enterprise architecture and operational discipline
• Security and risk-based decision making
• Analytical troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
• Clear communication and documentation
• Customer focus, prioritization, and sound judgment

Benefits of Joining Albemarle

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.

We are partners to one another in pioneering new ways to be better for ourselves, our teams, and our communities. When you join Albemarle, you become our most essential element and you can anticipate competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and resources that foster your well-being and fuel your personal growth. Help us shape the future, build with purpose and grow together.