Network Software Engineering Leader - Routing & Switching

ACL Digital; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

ACL Digital in Bengaluru seeks a senior Networking Engineering Leader to own end-to-end responsibility from pre-sales through delivery. The role demands deep expertise in IP/MPLS, VNFs/CNFs, DPDK, and cloud-native telecom workloads with strong customer-facing leadership.

The candidate will mentor architects, drive technical standards, and ensure PoCs are scalable and production-ready across Tier1 customers. Immediate joiner preferred.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of experience in Networking and Telecom systems architectures.
• Ability to own end-to-end solutions from pre-sales to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, solution definition, and architecture discussions.
• Serve as primary technical interface with customers and guide PoCs to production deployments.
• Define end-to-end telecom solutions across access, transport, core, and data plane.
• Drive technical standards, reusable assets, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Networking expertise

Leadership

Pre-sales & Delivery

PoC design

SD-WAN

BGP/OSPF

DPDK

Linux

Kubernetes

Docker

RESTful services

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

NFV

Job description

ACL Digital is actively hiring for Network Software Engineering Leader to join our dynamic team in Bengaluru

Job Requirement - 20+ Years Industry Experience in Network Software Engineering

Role Title - Networking Engineering Leader – Pre Sales & Delivery

Role Overview

We are seeking a senior, highly experienced Networking and Telecom Systems Architect who can own end to end responsibility from pre sales through delivery. This role requires deep expertise across wireline, wireless, access, core, transport, IP/MPLS, VNFs, and high performance data plane technologies (DPDK), combined with strong customer facing and leadership capabilities.

The individual will act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, a solution partner to Sales, and a technical guide to delivery teams, ensuring successful PoCs and production grade deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical interface with customers.
• Lead technical discovery, solution definition, and architecture discussions.
• Translate business and operational requirements into end to end technical solutions.
• Support RFP/RFI responses, proposals, SoWs, and solution presentations.
• Design end to end telecom solutions across access, transport, core, and data plane.
• Define and guide Proof of Concepts (PoCs) aligned to customer use cases.
• Ensure PoCs are scalable, validated, and production ready.

Delivery & Technical Governance

• Act as technical owner during delivery.
• Guide teams on detailed design, implementation, integration, and troubleshooting.
• Handle complex cross domain technical escalations.
• Ensure solution quality, performance, and customer satisfaction.
• Handled multiple delivery programs across various Tier1 customers with team size of 300+ HC

Technical Leadership

• Mentor architects and engineers.
• Review designs and implementations for best practices.
• Drive technical standards, reusable assets, and continuous improvement.

Core Technical Expertise

• Networking: IP/MPLS, BGP, OSPF/IS IS, Segment Routing, EVPN/VXLAN
• Domains: Wireline, Wireless (LTE/5G), Access, Transport, Core
• Virtualization: VNFs/CNFs, NFV concepts
• High Performance: DPDK, SR IOV, NUMA, system tuning
• Platforms: Linux systems, containers, Kubernetes (telecom workloads)

Detailed Experience

• Strong experience in SD-WAN, Routers, Switches & Firewalls, packet processing, parsing, networking (L2-L4) protocols/architecture, High Availability, in Networking and Telecom Domain.
• Experience in data plane forwarding, DPDK packet processing, performance tuning.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, good knowledge of Performance/Scale characterization of networking/telecom solutions and experience in all phases of SDLC.
• Strong working experience with Networking, Linux, Git, Systems Engineering, designing and developing REST based services, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Micro services and Integrations, cloud native application development & tool sets, CICD workflows, release management, and production deployment processes.
• Working Knowledge on SaaS, PaaS, IaaS.
• Experience with MLOps, ML model lifecycle pipelines, ML model training and fine-tuning.

Experience & Profile

• 20+ years in telecom or large scale networking systems with atleast 5 years in Leadership role managing teams
• Experience working with telecom operators, OEMs, or large enterprises
• Strong customer communication and executive presentation skills
• Hands on, pragmatic, and technically authoritative

Immediate joiner preferred if interested please connect me at [e-mail]