Practice Lead - Networking

Power Bridge; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Career development

Long-term savings plan

Job summary

Power Bridge in Bengaluru is seeking a senior Network & Security Delivery Lead to own end-to-end implementations across the practice and mentor L1/L2 engineers as the team scales. You will stay hands-on in complex customer engagements and guide advanced implementations, troubleshooting, and escalations.

You will design and review Low-Level Designs from HLDs, coordinate handovers, plan resources across multiple projects, and lead on-site workshops with customers.

Qualifications

• 10-12 years hands-on networking and security experience.
• Proven experience leading a network engineering team in multi-customer delivery environments (SI/OEM/distributor).
• Hands-on with firewall platforms: Cisco, Fortigate, Palo Alto.
• Expertise in switching/Wi‑Fi: HP Aruba and Cisco (Meraki/Catalyst).
• NAC implementation with Aruba ClearPass or Cisco ISE; security with Cisco Umbrella and MFA.
• Strong LLD design discipline and ability to drive design conversations with customers.
• Resource planning across multiple concurrent projects.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of all network and security implementations across the practice.
• Lead a team of L1 and L2 network engineers and grow the team as the practice scales.
• Remain hands-on in complex customer engagements, leading advanced implementations, troubleshooting, and technical escalations.
• Provide technical leadership to L1 and L2 engineers by mentoring, reviewing solutions, and supporting them on challenging issues.
• Design and review Low-Level Designs (LLDs) from solution-architect HLDs, typically within 5 working days of customer workshops.
• Take handover from the presales/solution-architect team during internal and external project kickoffs.
• Plan resources across multiple concurrent customer projects, sequencing work around customer readiness.
• Drive on-site customer workshops, planning sessions, and design conversations as the senior point of contact.
• Build automation - scripts, templated configurations, deployment playbooks - to scale repeatable deployments (e.g. 50-switch rollouts).
• Conduct post-implementation customer reviews and obtain formal signoff on delivered scope.

Skills

Networking

Team leadership

Firewall platforms

Switching & Wi-Fi

NAC & ISE/ClearPass

Security solutions

LLD design

Resource planning

Job description

Own end-to-end delivery of all network and security implementations across the practice

Lead a team of L1 and L2 network engineers and grow the team as the practice scales

Remain hands-on in complex customer engagements, leading advanced implementations, troubleshooting, and technical escalations

Provide technical leadership to L1 and L2 engineers by mentoring, reviewing solutions, and supporting them on challenging issues

Design and review Low-Level Designs (LLDs) from solution-architect HLDs, typically within 5 working days of customer workshops

Take handover from the presales / solution-architect team during internal and external project kickoffs

Plan resources across multiple concurrent customer projects, sequencing work around customer readiness (cabling, terminations, site access)

Drive on-site customer workshops, planning sessions, and design conversations as the senior point of contact

Build automation - scripts, templated configurations, deployment playbooks - to scale repeatable deployments (e.g. 50-switch rollouts)

Conduct post-implementation customer reviews and obtain formal signoff on delivered scope

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end delivery of all network and security implementations across the practice
• Lead a team of L1 and L2 network engineers and grow the team as the practice scales
• Remain hands-on in complex customer engagements, leading advanced implementations, troubleshooting, and technical escalations
• Provide technical leadership to L1 and L2 engineers by mentoring, reviewing solutions, and supporting them on challenging issues
• Design and review Low-Level Designs (LLDs) from solution-architect HLDs, typically within 5 working days of customer workshops
• Take handover from the presales / solution-architect team during internal and external project kickoffs
• Plan resources across multiple concurrent customer projects, sequencing work around customer readiness (cabling, terminations, site access)
• Drive on-site customer workshops, planning sessions, and design conversations as the senior point of contact
• Build automation - scripts, templated configurations, deployment playbooks - to scale repeatable deployments (e.g. 50-switch rollouts)
• Conduct post-implementation customer reviews and obtain formal signoff on delivered scope

Requirements

Must-Have

• 10-12 years of hands-on networking and security implementation experience
• Proven experience leading a team of network engineers in a multi-customer delivery environment (System Integrator, OEM, or Distributor background)
• Strong hands-on with firewall platforms: Cisco, Fortigate, and Palo Alto
• Expertise in switching and Wi-Fi: HP Aruba and Cisco (Meraki, Catalyst, SF/SG)
• NAC implementation experience with HP Aruba ClearPass or Cisco ISE
• Security solutions experience with Cisco Umbrella and multi-factor authentication
• Strong LLD design discipline and ability to drive design conversations with customers
• Resource planning across multiple concurrent customer projects

Good-to-Have

• Experience with Wi-Fi active heat-map surveys and remediation
• Routing protocol depth - OSPF, BGP
• Scripting / automation for repeatable network deployments
• Background from comparable system integrators (Frontier, Team Computers, SOIH, etc.)

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage for self, spouse and kids.
• Long-term benefit savings plan with employer matching contributions
• Opportunities for professional development and advancement within the organization