Role Summary:
The Network Engineer (L2 - L3 Level) will be responsible for the implementation, administration, operational support, troubleshooting, optimization, and technical design of enterprise network infrastructure.
Key responsibilities include:
- Serve as the L3 escalation point for network incidents and complex technical issues escalated by L1/L2 support teams.
- Perform advanced troubleshooting of network connectivity, latency, packet loss, routing, switching, firewall connectivity, DNS, load-balancing, and hybrid-cloud connectivity issues.
- Perform detailed troubleshooting using tools and techniques such as packet captures, traceroute, routing-table analysis, interface statistics, flow analysis, and network monitoring platforms.
- Perform configuration, implementation, upgrade, migration, and troubleshooting activities for enterprise network infrastructure.
- Review existing network configurations and identify performance, resilience, security, capacity, and configuration improvements.
- Support Incident, Problem, Change, and Request Management processes and provide technical inputs for major incidents and problem investigations.
- Conduct RCA for recurring or major network incidents and recommend preventive measures.
- Prepare and review Change Requests, implementation plans, validation plans, rollback plans, and risk assessments for network changes.
- Support network patching, firmware upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and technology lifecycle/EOS/EOL activities.
- Conduct pre- and post-change validation and ensure services are restored and operating normally.
- Support infrastructure projects including network refreshes, migrations, cloud onboarding, new system deployments, and data centre changes.
- Produce and maintain network diagrams, configuration documents, SOPs, troubleshooting guides, IP addressing records, and operational documentation.
- Work closely with cybersecurity teams on network segmentation, firewall requirements, vulnerability findings, security hardening, and remediation activities.
- Coordinate with OEMs and technology vendors for complex technical issues and drive cases through to resolution.
- Provide technical guidance to L1/L2 engineers and conduct knowledge transfer and operational handover where required.
- Provide technical consultancy and architecture recommendations to improve scalability, security, resilience, operational efficiency, and cost optimization.
- Conduct architecture reviews and technology evaluations for network modernisation initiatives.
- Architecture review, HLD/LLD design, technical consultancy, and network transformation planning responsibilities.
Requirements:
- Minimum 8–10 years of experience in enterprise network engineering, with strong hands-on experience providing L3 technical support, implementation, troubleshooting, and network design.
- At least 5 years of experience in complex enterprise or data centre network environments, preferably supporting business-critical infrastructure.
- Proven experience implementing, operating, troubleshooting, and supporting large-scale on-premises enterprise networks, including campus LAN/WAN, data centres, Internet edge, DMZ, and wireless environments.
- Strong experience acting as the L3 escalation point for complex network incidents, performance issues, connectivity failures, routing problems, and infrastructure changes.
- Experience supporting hybrid network environments integrating on-premises infrastructure with GCC/GCC+ and public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and AWS.
- Strong understanding of data centre networking, including core/distribution/access architecture, network segmentation, redundancy, resiliency, and high availability.
- Experience with hybrid connectivity technologies including ExpressRoute, Site-to-Site VPN, MPLS, SD-WAN, and AWS Direct Connect or equivalent technologies.
- Experience performing network migrations, technology refreshes, upgrades, capacity expansion, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management.
- Experience supporting major incidents and performing root cause analysis (RCA) and implementing corrective and preventive actions.
- Experience working with Singapore Government agencies or Statutory Boards is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with Singapore Government ICT, cybersecurity, change-management, and cloud governance requirements is an advantage.
- Ability to provide technical guidance and mentoring to L1/L2 engineers and coordinate with infrastructure, security, cloud, application, and vendor teams.
Technical Expertise:
Candidates should have strong hands-on knowledge in:
Enterprise & Data Centre Networking
- Campus LAN/WAN
- Data Centre Networks
- Core, Distribution and Access Switching
- Enterprise Wireless
- Internet Edge and DMZ
- Network Segmentation
- High Availability and Redundancy
- Load Balancers and Reverse Proxies
- IP Address Management (IPAM)
- DNS/DHCP
- Network Monitoring and Performance Management
Hybrid Cloud Networking
- GCC / GCC+
- Microsoft Azure Networking
- AWS Networking
- ExpressRoute
- AWS Direct Connect
- Site-to-Site VPN
- Azure Firewall
- Azure Application Gateway
- Azure WAF / WAF Policies
- Network Security Groups (NSG)
- Azure Front Door
- Azure Virtual WAN
- VNet/VPC Peering
- Transit/Hub-and-Spoke Networking
- DNS and Hybrid Name Resolution
- Cloud routing and connectivity troubleshooting
Routing & Switching
- OSPF
- BGP
- VRRP/HSRP
- VLAN / Trunking
- STP/RSTP/MSTP
- VXLAN
- QoS
- MPLS
- IPv4/IPv6
- NAT
- Route redistribution and route filtering
Troubleshooting Capability:
The candidate should be capable of independently troubleshooting complex issues involving routing convergence, asymmetric routing, BGP/OSPF adjacency, VLAN/trunking, packet drops, MTU/MSS, latency, DNS resolution, NAT, VPN tunnels, hybrid-cloud routing, load balancers, firewall paths, and application connectivity.
For an L3 Engineer, I would specifically avoid making “network architecture governance” and “technical consultancy” the primary responsibility. The person can certainly contribute to design reviews, but the core expectation should be: hands-on SME + escalation engineer + complex troubleshooting + implementation/change ownership + RCA/problem management.
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