Senior Network Engineer

About Organisation:

Larsen & Toubro Ltd , commonly known as L&T , is an Indian multinational conglomerate company, with business interests in engineering, construction, manufacturing, technology, information technology and financial services, headquartered in Mumbai & Technical services, headquartered in Chennai. The company is counted among worlds top five construction companies.

The L&T Group comprises 93 subsidiaries, 5 associate companies, 27 joint ventures and 35 jointly held operations, operating across basic and heavy engineering, construction, realty, manufacturing of capital goods, information technology, and financial services.

1. Overview

L&T Corporate IT seeks a dynamic Engineering graduate with Core Networking skillsets to enhance & optimize L&T Corporate Datacenter & be a transformative professional that drives Business to IT Connect.

1. Key Responsibilities

Network Management for Datacenter & Locations

1. Drive Transformation & Implementation projects for various Businesses of L&T with expertise in Datacenter Networking.
2. Ensure a robust WAN, LAN, P2P, and Link infrastructure to the various businesses of L&T.
3. Liase with multiple IT operations & Business teams within to ensure committed SLA / OLA are delivered & exceed customer expectations.
4. Innovate to find optimized solutions to business needs within budget & drive Network procurements for the Corporate Data center.
5. Lead a Team of networking professionals in a dynamic environment to ensure issues are addressed in a satisfactory manner.

ISP Management

1. Drive Governance across various Partner ISPs to ensure a robust Link infrastructure & commitment to SLA & network performance.
2. Find innovative ways to derive maximum value of investments made & optimize cost of doing business.
3. Ensure accurate invoicing from Partner ISPs & innovate to automate the billing process.

Network Security

1. Drive Secure by Design principle in various aspects of the network by ensuring conformance to set security guidelines & out of the box solutions.
2. Be a bridge between Operations & Security to ensure security at every aspect of IT systems & drive Governance.
3. Drive Governance across Technical & Business teams to ensure optimized use of Datacenter equipment.
4. Ensure strict adherence to Hardening Guidelines, review SOPs & architectures & identify avenues of improved security & performance.
5. Be a SPOC between the Operations Team & Auditors (Internal & External). Drive any audit observations to closure.

Datacenter perations

1. Be responsible for Corporate Datacenters across Critical locations & ensure smooth always ON operations.
2. Innovate to ensure sustainable DC operations & adherence to Environment Health & Safety norms.
3. Ensure Security of Datacenters which host information critical to L&T s Business.

Desired Candidate Profile

1. Preferable candidate with a bachelor s degree in engineering with at least 5 years of experience in an Enterprise Datacenter Setup.
2. Core Experience in Routing & Switching, managing Firewalls & Load balancers.
3. Core experience in ISP relationship management.
4. Knowledge of ITIL, ISO 27001 standards is a must.
5. Exposure to Security & ISO Audits is a must.
6. Knowledge of Virtualization, Active Directory, Databases, Azure would be an added advantage.
7. Certifications in Networks, Datacenter are preferrable.