Lead- Network security

Job Title: Manager

Job Location: PAN India

Work Model: Work from Office

Total Experience and Relevant Experience: 12 to 16 years

Candidate Location: Anywhere in India

Skills- Enterprise Networking or Network Security

Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related discipline.

CCNP Security or equivalent Cisco security certification

Palo Alto Networks PCNSE

Zscaler ZIA/ZPA Administrator or Zscaler Digital Transformation certification

ITIL Foundation or advanced IT service-management certification

Relevant cloud certification in Azure, AWS or GCP

Own the end-to-end lifecycle of enterprise Network Security services, including strategy, architecture, engineering, transition, operations and optimisation

Establish clear service ownership, operating procedures, escalation paths and accountability across internal technology teams.

Define annual service roadmaps covering platform upgrades, security improvements, automation, technology refresh, resilience and legacy retirement.

Manage service performance, capacity, availability, risks, dependencies, technical debt and operational readiness.

Act as the management escalation point for significant service, delivery, stakeholder and vendor issues.

Balance operational stability with security transformation and business delivery priorities.

Provide design authority for network security solutions across corporate environments, data centres, remote users, cloud platforms, business units, merged entities and isolated environments.

Review and approve high-level and low-level designs, security patterns, traffic-flow diagrams, migration approaches, implementation plans and operational acceptance criteria.

Govern technical standards for firewalls, RAVPN, IPSec tunnels, Cisco ISE, ZIA, ZPA, App Connectors, traffic forwarding and endpoint posture.

Ensure architecture decisions align with Zero Trust, least privilege, segmentation and defence-in-depth principles.

Maintain sufficient technical depth to guide engineering teams, challenge vendor recommendations, approve designs and support critical escalations across Firewalls, Remote Access and IPSec VPN, Cisco ISE and Zscaler ZIA and ZPA domains.

Ensure effective L3/L4 support for firewall, RAVPN, IPSec, ISE, ZIA and ZPA services.

Lead or oversee P1/P2 incidents, technical war rooms and executive escalations.

Coordinate troubleshooting across network, security, endpoint, identity, cloud, application, vendor and service-management teams.

Ensure Network Security platforms comply with corporate security baselines, internal standards and applicable control frameworks.

Partner with Corporate Security and Audit teams to provide evidence for firewall governance, endpoint posture, identity enforcement, vulnerability remediation and access controls.

Support NIST, ISO, internal audit and regulatory evidence requirements as applicable.

Lead security transformation programmes involving RAVPN-to-ZPA migration,  firewall optimisation, application segmentation and cloud-security adoption.

Lead, coach and develop a team of Network Security engineers and technical leads.

Build effective relationships with Corporate Security, Architecture, IAM, Endpoint, Cloud, Network Operations, Service Management and business stakeholders.

Translate technical issues and risks into clear business impact, decisions and investment requirements.

Manage engineering and escalation relationships with Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler and implementation partners.

Review vendor proposals, statements of work, architecture recommendations and product roadmaps.

Hold vendors accountable for defect resolution, root-cause findings, security fixes, platform reliability and delivery commitments.

Coordinate complex incidents and interoperability issues involving multiple providers.

Ensure all material decisions, responsibilities and dependencies are captured through documented RACI and governance structures

Mandatory Key Skills:

Provide technical and operational leadership for enterprise network security services across traditional firewall, remote-access, identity-based access, and cloud-delivered Zero Trust technologies. Experience in enterprise networking or network security, including substantial experience in technical leadership or service management.

Demonstrated experience managing Network Security engineering or operations teams in a large, distributed enterprise.