Network Engineer - Data Center & Enterprise Networks

About the role

The Network Engineer designs, implements and operates the enterprise and data center network covering switching, routing and secure connectivity, keeping STN sites, data centers and customer environments running reliably. The role combines strong switching and routing fundamentals with deep BGP expertise and disciplined automation, in a 24/7 operation. It is a full-time onsite position in Lahore DHA Phase 6 reporting to the Manager/Director of Network Engineering.

Key responsibilities

• Configure, operate and troubleshoot routers, switches and firewalls across multivendor environments
• Own dynamic routing with BGP and OSPF, including peering, route policy and redistribution
• Design and maintain switching architectures such as VLANs, VRF, VXLAN and EVPN
• Implement secure connectivity including VPN, IPSec/GRE tunneling, ACLs and QoS
• Manage IP address space, DNS, DHCP and network source-of-truth tooling
• Automate configuration, provisioning and compliance checks with Ansible and Python
• Monitor network performance and lead troubleshooting across layers 1 through 7
• Partner with the NOC on alerting, runbooks and incident response in a 24/7 operation
• Maintain network documentation, diagrams and operational runbooks
• Support capacity planning, change management and security and compliance reviews

Required profile

• 5+ years of network engineering experience in data center, enterprise or service provider environments
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or IT, or equivalent experience
• CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP, JNCIE or equivalent certification strongly preferred

Required skills

• Strong hands-on switching and routing, with deep BGP expertise
• Solid knowledge of OSPF, MPLS, VXLAN, EVPN and VRF
• Hands-on experience with Cisco, Arista, Juniper or NVIDIA Mellanox/Spectrum platforms
• Working knowledge of firewalls, VPN, QoS and network security fundamentals
• Strong troubleshooting across layers 1 through 7

Preferred: network automation and SDN experience (Ansible, Python, Nautobot or Netbox); HPC and AI/GPU cluster networking; InfiniBand or RoCE familiarity; multi-site WAN and peering experience; SOC 2 audit support experience.