Network Security Engineer

Net Access India; Chennai District; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Net Access India is seeking a hands-on Network Security Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize enterprise firewall and VPN solutions in Chennai. You will lead migrations, monitor performance, and collaborate with vendors to resolve incidents.

The role requires strong routing, switching, firewall policy expertise, and CCNA certs; experience with Fortinet/Check Point/Sophos is preferred. On-site work with occasional travel may be involved.

Qualifications

• Hands-on expertise in Fortinet, Check Point, and Sophos firewalls (deployment, policy management, upgrades).
• Strong knowledge of firewall policies, NAT rules, IP SLA, IPsec VPN, IDP & IPS, RADIUS, and TACACS.
• Experience with IP routing protocols OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, QoS, GRE, NetFlow WAN technologies.
• Experience with TCP/IP services (DNS, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, etc.).
• CCNA(R&S) or CCNA Security certified.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and troubleshoot network and security performance, incidents, and outages.
• Lead network and security implementation, migration, and optimization projects.
• Configure VPNs, SDWAN, routing, and advanced security features (IPS, AV, Web Filtering).
• Perform layer-wise network audits and security assessments.
• Collaborate with ISPs, OEMs, and third-party vendors for issue resolution.
• Engage with customers for new business initiatives and security solution design.
• Maintain network and security documentation, diagrams, and SOPs.
• Provide value-added recommendations based on industry best practices and emerging technologies.

Skills

Subnetting & addressing

Routing & Switching

VLANs & VRRP

VPN & IPSec

Firewall policies

RADIUS & TACACS+

IP SLA & NAT

Fortinet/Check Point/Sophos

Education

CCNA R&S

CCNA Security

Tools

Cisco ASA

Cisco switches

Cisco routers

HP switches

HP routers

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Hands-on expertise in Fortinet, Check Point, and Sophos firewalls (deployment, policy management, upgrades).
• Monitor and troubleshoot network and security performance, incidents, and outages.
• Lead network and security implementation, migration, and optimization projects.
• Configure VPNs, SDWAN, routing, and advanced security features (IPS, AV, Web Filtering).
• Perform layer-wise network audits and security assessments.
• Collaborate with ISPs, OEMs, and third-party vendors for issue resolution.
• Engage with customers for new business initiatives and security solution design.
• Maintain network and security documentation, diagrams, and SOPs.
• Provide value-added recommendations based on industry best practices and emerging technologies.

Preferred candidate profile

• Robust experience with addressing, sub-netting, routing, switching, VLANs, VTP, STP, NAT, VPN, 802.1x, VRRP, HSRP etc.
• Hands-on experience implementing, administrating and troubleshooting network devices: Cisco ASA, Cisco/HP network switches, Cisco/HP routers
• Strong knowledge of firewall policies, NAT rules, IP SLA, IPSec VPN, IDP & IPS, RADIUS, and TACACS.
• Strong knowledge of IP routing protocols OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, QoS, GRE, NetFlow WAN technologies.
• A good level of experience implementing and administering common TCP/IP based services, including DNS, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, etc.
• Experience with standard network and security change and configuration control policies.
• CCNA(R&S) or CCNA Security certified