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From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.\nThe Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and AgroScience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.\nIn over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.\nIn 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion; and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.\nTITLE: Senior Network Engineer\nREPORTING To: CoE Network Manager\nWORKING LOCATION: Bengaluru\nSUMMARY OF ROLE AND OBJECTIVES:\nThe Infrastructure Lead - IT is an intermediate-senior technical contributor within the CoE Network team responsible for end-to-end project delivery, execution of complex network initiatives, and operational excellence across Eurofins network landscape. This role carries a strong emphasis on project delivery, on-time execution, and stakeholder management, while contributing hands-on technical expertise across multi-vendor network and security platforms.\nThe engineer will work closely with Level 3 engineers, architects, and regional teams/IT zones to deliver network projects, drive change, and support operational escalations in line with ITIL methodology and Eurofins Policies & Procedures (ENNA - Eurofins Normalised Network Architecture).\nProject Delivery (Primary Focus)\nA senior technical resource within the team who can manage complex networks including datacentres.\nOwn and deliver assigned network infrastructure projects end-to-end - from initiation, planning, design validation, execution, testing, cutover, to hyper care and handover.\nDrive on-time, on-scope, and on-quality delivery of global and regional projects including new site build-outs, datacentre migrations, firewall refresh/migration programs, SD-WAN rollouts, VoIP integrations, WAF deployments, and Zero Trust initiatives.\nCreate and maintain project artefacts: Low-Level Designs (LLDs), High-Level Designs (HLDs), Bill of Materials (BoM), implementation plans, rollback plans, test plans, and Run/Operate documentation.\nCoordinate with cross-functional teams (Security, Cloud, Service Desk, Regional IT, Vendors, ISPs) to remove blockers and ensure milestone adherence.\nProvide regular project status updates, RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), and escalations to the CoE Network Manager and IT Infrastructure leadership.\nContribute to capacity planning, lifecycle management, and technology refresh roadmaps.\nOperations, Incident & Change Management\nManage the CoE Network ITSM queue - 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FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, SD-WAN features, SSL VPN, IPSec.\nPalo Alto Networks - Panorama, NGFW features, App-ID, User-ID, GlobalProtect, Prisma.\nCisco Secure Firewall (Firepower/FTD/ASA) - FMC, threat policies, migrations from ASA to FTD.\nWeb Application Firewalls (WAF) - hands-on with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Azure WAF, F5 ASM/Advanced WAF, or Imperva.\nCloudflare - DNS, CDN, WAF, Zero Trust / Cloudflare Access, DDoS protection, Magic Transit (desirable).\nExperience with DDoS mitigation, IPS/IDS, TLS inspection, and modern Zero Trust / SASE architectures.\nRouting & Switching\nCisco - Catalyst (29xx/3xxx/9xxx), Nexus (5K/7K/9K), ASR, ACI (desirable), IOS/IOS-XE/NX-OS.\nJuniper switching - EX/QFX series, Junos OS, virtual chassis, EVPN-VXLAN (desirable).\nHPE/Aruba and Dell switching platforms.\nDeep knowledge of Layer 2/3 protocols - VLAN, STP/RSTP/MSTP, LACP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, VRF, multicast.\nRouting convergence optimisation and traffic engineering.\nWAN, SD-WAN & Connectivity\nSD-WAN - Arista VeloCloud (primary), with awareness of Cisco Viptela / Versa / Fortinet SD-WAN.\nMPLS, Internet breakout design, hybrid WAN, DIA circuits.\nVPN technologies - IPSec (policy & route-based), SSL VPN, Remote Access VPN, DMVPN.\nWireless\nCisco Wireless (WLC, LAP/CAPWAP, Autonomous APs), Cisco Meraki, Aruba, Aerohive/HiveManager.\nLoad Balancing & Application Delivery\nA10 (preferred), F5, KEMP - VIPs, SSL offload, persistence, health monitors, iRules/aFleX basics.\nVoice & Collaboration\nCisco Call Manager, Cisco Unity, UCS, and cloud-based telephony (RingCentral, MS Teams Voice awareness).\nAuthentication & Access\nRADIUS, TACACS+, Cisco ISE/ACS, 802.1X, NAC fundamentals.\nCloud & Modern Networking\nNetworking in AWS / GCP / Azure (VPC/VNet, Transit Gateway, VNet Peering, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect).\nInfrastructure-as-Code familiarity (Terraform, Ansible) for network automation.\nMonitoring & observability tools - SolarWinds, PRTG, ThousandEyes, Splunk.\nQoS, Traffic Engineering & Tools\nQoS, queuing, traffic shaping, policy management.\nPacket capture & analysis (Wireshark, tcpdump).\nPersonal Qualities / Profile\nProject-focused - 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