Network Engineer (Routing & Switching, Palo Alto OR Fortinet OR Juniper)
UST · ust.com
Chennai
The job in short
Routing and switching network engineer (Palo Alto, Fortinet or Juniper).
Networking
Details
- Found
- 22 d ago · posted 2026-01-14
- Location as listed
- Chennai
- Role
- Systems / Network Administrator
- Source
- The company’s own careers site
Full description
Technical Skills:
· Solid experience in routing and switching
· Network health checks (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS)
· Coordination with the vendors during network planned maintenance and P1 incidents
· Must have firewall experience in Fortinet/ Palo Alto/juniper
· Monitor performance and ensure system availability and reliability
· Monitor system resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning
· Work within established change management & MIM policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to the network infrastructure
· Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
· Proven hands-on experience in network technical support
· Understanding of networking protocols (e.g., IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, 802.11, QoS), Incident handling etc.
· Hands-on experience with ticketing tool, monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tool
· Extensive technical know-how of network and security devices (Routers, switches, antivirus, firewalls, cryptography, SIEM) and any other security networking hardware or software tools
· Minimum, two years’ experience identifying threats and developing appropriate protection measures
· Reviewing system changes for security implications and recommending improvements
· Excellent hands-on experience and knowledge implementing, configuring, integrating and supporting major network appliances
· Knowledge of networking concepts such as WAN connectivity, transport types and protocols, and experience with wireless technology and Wireless deployment for a user base over 500 users per site
· PaloAlto, Fortinet, Juniper, f5, Cloudflare skill sets
Organizational skills:
· Ability to interact with various levels of management and regions
· Ability to collaborate with a Global team, share relevant information, seek to convince others, know how to listen effectively and promote a team spirit
· Client focused and service-minded to truly listen and understand the Voice of the Customer.
· Strict adherence to process and policies
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