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Associate Lead, Network Engineer

Kla
Chennai, IND
Full-time
Senior · 8+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 1 months ago
BGPOSPFVLANSTPF5 BIG-IPSD-WAN

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Network Operations & Support

Lead daily network operations for LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless, internet, and cloud connectivity.

Monitor network performance, availability, and capacity using enterprise monitoring tools.

Ensure high uptime and operational stability across data centers, campuses, manufacturing sites, and remote offices.

Manage incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem management.

Leadership & Team Management

Lead and mentor network engineers and operations staff.

Assign operational tasks and manage escalation processes.

Develop operational procedures, standards, and documentation.

Coordinate with vendors, service providers, and managed service partners.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner closely with Security, Cloud, Infrastructure, Application, DevOps, Manufacturing, and Business teams to support enterprise initiatives.

Participate in enterprise transformation, digital modernization, Zero Trust, and cloud migration programs.

Collaborate with business stakeholders to align network services with operational and strategic business objectives.

Work with vendors, managed service providers, and third-party partners to deliver operational excellence.

Infrastructure Support

Support enterprise routing, switching, wireless, and cloud networking environments.

Maintain Cisco, Arista, Aruba, or equivalent technologies.

Support hybrid cloud networking (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Assist in network modernization and transformation initiatives.

Operational Excellence

Own day-to-day network operations, including incident and outage response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Define and track KPIs, SLAs, and operational metrics.

Drive network automation initiatives using scripting, deployment automation and infrastructure-as-code methodologies

Improve operational efficiency through automated alerting, remediation workflows, and self-healing network capabilities.

Create executive operational reports and status dashboards.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
  • 8+ years of network engineering/operations experience.
  • 3+ years of leadership or team lead experience.
  • Experience supporting large enterprise or global network environments
  • Strong knowledge of: Routing & Switching (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, STP) F5 BIG-IP platform (WAF, LTM, AFM) SD-WAN and wireless networking Network monitoring tools Incident and change management processes
  • Routing & Switching (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, STP)
  • F5 BIG-IP platform (WAF, LTM, AFM)
  • SD-WAN and wireless networking
  • Network monitoring tools
  • Incident and change management processes
  • Experience with enterprise environments and 24x7 operations.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to executive leadership, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
  • Proven ability to lead meetings, drive collaboration, manage escalations, and present operational updates to technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

  • CCNP, CCIE, F5, AWS/Azure networking certifications.
  • Work with multi-national
  • Work experience with in an environment of 10000+ users
  • Experience with: Cisco ACI ClearPass NAC Network automation (Python, Ansible) ITIL processes
  • Cisco ACI
  • ClearPass NAC
  • Network automation (Python, Ansible)
  • ITIL processes
  • Manufacturing or healthcare industry experience preferred.
  • We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.
  • KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer
  • Be aware of potentially fraudulent job postings or suspicious recruiting activity by persons that are currently posing as KLA employees. KLA never asks for any financial compensation to be considered for an interview, to become an employee, or for equipment. Further, KLA does not work with any recruiters or third parties who charge such fees either directly or on behalf of KLA . Please ensure that you have searched KLA’s Careers website for legitimate job postings. KLA follows a recruiting process that involves multiple interviews in person or on video conferencing with our hiring managers. If you are concerned that a communication, an interview, an offer of employment, or that an employee is not legitimate, please send an email to [email protected] to confirm the person you are communicating with is an employee. We take your privacy very seriously and confidentially handle your information.

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