Practice Lead - Networking

Power Bridge; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (self, spouse & kids)

Long-term savings plan with employer-m

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Power Bridge in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India seeks a senior Network & Security Lead to own end-to-end delivery across the practice. You will lead L1/L2 engineers, remain hands-on in complex customer engagements, mentor peers, and drive design conversations from workshops through HLD/LLD handoffs.

The role requires 8–10 years of hands-on experience with firewalls, switching, and Wi‑Fi, plus NAC and security solutions expertise. On-site work with customers and teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years hands-on networking and security implementation experience.
• Proven experience leading a team of network engineers in a multi-customer delivery environment.
• 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.

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

Team leadership

Networking

Security implementations

LLD design

Customer engagements

Tools

Cisco

Fortigate

Palo Alto

HP Aruba

Aruba ClearPass

Cisco ISE

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

Requirements

• 8–10 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

Good-to-Have

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