About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

11

The Role:  Principal Network Engineer

Team: Network Security Tools & Engineering Team

The Location: Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Noida and Bengaluru (India)

The Team / The Business: 

S&P provides the data and analytics required for every single day decisions in the capital and financial markets. The role is into Data Center, Campus & Cloud Engineering team which is a part of S&P’s Digital Technology Group (DTS). DTS is leading the company’s Digital Transformation journey. This team works across the company - building scalable, end-to-end network services for future business needs. DTS delivers the services, applications, and websites that every S&P employee, clients utilize in some part of their work – Live Dashboards such as best known for the popular and often citied S&P 500 Index, Application connectivity, Consoles, Database Replication, Expense time & absence reporting - to name a few.

Role and Responsibilities:

As a Senior/Principal Network Engineer:

• The focus of this position is to design and deploy infrastructure solutions that provide the underpinning for network and application connectivity in a multi-ISP, multi-DC ,multi Cloud environments (Akamai, Azure, AWS, Cloudflare, Alibaba) that enables our customers to achieve maximum productivity and success.
• Planning, designing of Corporate Firewalls architecture and implementing in distributed environment.
• In-depth experience with any of the Security Policy Automation Tools , Enterprise Proxy Technologies ,Firewall devices -configuration , management , engineering experience.
• Use the latest technologies, tools & techniques, approaches, and work with leading minds in the industry to build, implement solutions and integrate with existing legacy technology- solutions you can be proud of.
• Adapt in a dynamic environment, work with tight timelines for infra deployments and readiness.
• Collaborate with CFTs through open communication and collaboration during product life-cycle testing, development with in-depth understanding on Infrastructure as Code, Application Architecture, Automation, Project Delivery, Environment Troubleshooting towards successful roll-out of the application, product.
• Work with multiple teams including product, Cloud, Infra, Security, Service/PMO, OEMs in driving continuous improvements in network, automation, platform innovation and usability.
• Provide mentorship, training, and insight to other teammates especially to Operations with high-Level Design documentation ensuring KT with efficient handovers.
• Participate in P1/P2 outage calls as required providing support to Operations for quick mitigation / resolution of the outage. Help teams on complex problems requiring in-depth fault analysis and troubleshooting to understand traffic / connectivity flow with a mix of debugging, networking, tools administration including OEM support.
• Provide complete infra services lifecycle for the customers- Plan, Design, Implementation, Migration and Optimization.

What’s in it for you: 

This is an excellent opportunity to join S&P Global. You will be part of a world class Engineering team working in a fast-paced and agile environment with technology curious and enthusiasts from diverse backgrounds architecting various solutions for business requirements within different product offerings of S&P Global, used by tens of thousands of users globally. The team is responsible for ensuring solutions that deliver Greater Reliability & Resilience, High Performance, High Availability and Scalability. In this role, you will be part of DTS Global team with tremendous opportunity to grow personally and professionally. The chance to work on enterprise level products and new technologies is presented constantly. Our technology is continuously evolving, ensuring that you are always learning new skills and facing new challenges. Your growth potential is endless. Enjoy working with financial services technologists and partners. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building network & cloud infra solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers and partners.

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience developing enterprise level Network & Cloud Security solutions.
• Experience in configuring, implementing and troubleshooting network topologies in a complex environment with extensive experience in the analysis, assessment, development, and evaluation of security solutions and architectures to secure applications and networks. 
• Assists in the development of network security requirements, assists in technical regulatory compliance efforts, evaluates security services and technologies, and reviews and documents information security policies and procedures as well as provides monitoring and oversight for alerts in the environment and/or overseeing network QA testing or network regression testing. 
• 10+ years of in-depth experience with hands on experience with configuring & management of firewalls of Multi - vendor platforms such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Fortinet with Fortinet is an advantage .
• Work experience on F5 LoadBalancer domain LTM, GTM domains.
• Work experience on enterprise proxy solutions -Bluecoat (Web/Socks proxy), ZScaler Proxy solution.
• Management, investigating and troubleshooting traffic and user access, log management, tune devices to get utmost performance eliminating vulnerabilities and install new security patches.
• Work experience in routing protocols-BGP, OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP is advantage.
• In-depth knowledge of Remote access technologies including IPsec, GRE, DMVPN, SSL VPNs.
• Work experience with protocol level understanding of Switching technologies - VLAN, STP (all types), LACP, EtherChannel, VPC, VXLAN, HSRP and VRRP.
• Knowledge on Data Center switching -Cisco Nexus & ACI, Arista.
• Work experience in SDWAN technologies.
• Work experience with MPLS overlay environments which include multi VRF, L3VPN & L2VPN network with expert level knowledge of analyzing packet captures & Protocol analysis.
• Work experience on system resource utilization, traffic trends / pattern, Bandwidth & capacity planning.
• Work experience Radius, TACACS+, Cisco ISE, WLAN, Fortinet Firewalls, F5 LoadBalancers is an advantage.
• Knowledge on automation tools -Itential, Ansible orchestration is an advantage.
• Knowledge on Cloud technologies-AWS, Azure is an advantage.

Soft Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 
• Team player who enjoys a mix of autonomy and collaboration-based delivery
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, commitments, and projects.
• Ability to influence, lead, and drive consensus amongst CFT’s.
• Self-motivated, able to self-drive customer requirements and prioritize work.
• Create and maintain knowledge base articles to prevent & resolve similar issues quickly
• Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment.

What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose:

Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:
 

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at S&P Global:
At S&P Global, we believe diversity fuels creative insights, equity unlocks opportunity, and inclusion drives growth and innovation – Powering Global Markets. Our commitment centers on our global workforce, ensuring that our people are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. It doesn’t stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all.

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