Network Security Engineer (Akamai)

Senior Network Security Engineer (Microsegmentation)

Location- Bangalore- Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Translate high-level business strategic objectives and goals into Enterprise IT requirements and conceptual designs.
• Develop and support comprehensive solutions that meet requirements and align with HPE's global network security and microsegmentation strategy.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year strategic network and security architecture roadmap, incorporating Zero Trust and segmentation-driven security models.
• Lead end-to-end network and security architecture across global platforms ensuring secure, high-performing, fault-tolerant, and resilient environments.

Microsegmentation & Zero Trust Responsibilities

• Architect and implement microsegmentation strategies across data center, campus, and cloud environments to limit lateral movement and enforce least-privilege access.
• Design and operationalize Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) principles, integrating identity, application, and network-based policy enforcement.
• Collaborate with application owners to discover, validate, and map application dependencies to enable policy-driven segmentation.
• Define and enforce granular security policies using label/tag-based segmentation approaches across hybrid environments.
• Integrate microsegmentation with firewalls, SIEM, IAM, EDR/XDR, and cloud-native controls for unified policy enforcement.
• Lead adoption of microsegmentation platforms (e.g, Guardicore/Akamai Segmentation).
• Develop segmentation governance models, policy lifecycle management, and compliance alignment (CIS/NIST/Zero Trust frameworks).

Core Network Security Responsibilities

• Participate in network security design reviews and ensure all implementations meet enterprise security standards.
• Analyze business requirements to design and implement security across data centers, campus networks, and hybrid environments.
• Provide ongoing risk metrics, control effectiveness tracking, and security posture reporting.
• Conduct and support internal and external security audits and compliance assessments.
• Maintain awareness of emerging threats and update policies accordingly.
• Develop and manage policies, processes, and procedures ensuring reliability, availability, and security of network systems.
• Manage and optimize Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems.
• Collaborate with Cyber Security, infrastructure, and application teams toward compliance and operational excellence.

Technical Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise network security architecture, engineering, and operations.

Microsegmentation & Advanced Security

• Strong hands-on experience in designing and implementing microsegmentation solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven capability to build application-aware segmentation policies based on traffic flow analysis.
• Experience with policy simulation, enforcement, monitoring, and optimization in segmentation platforms.
• Understanding of east-west traffic inspection, workload protection, and software-defined segmentation.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and identity-driven access models.

Network Security & Infrastructure

• Strong experience managing LAN/WAN security technologies, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, VPN, and NAC.
• Expertise in firewall architecture and design with hands-on experience in:
• Fortinet (Fortigate), Palo Alto, Juniper
• Policy design, NAT, routing, application control, and threat prevention profiles
• Experience securing public and private cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) environments.
• Design and implementation of Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) solutions.
• Strong experience in proxy (forward/reverse), load balancing, and application security integration.
• Experience with SDN and SD-WAN architectures, including segmentation use cases.

Networking & Protocol Expertise

• Strong knowledge of:
• Routing protocols: BGP, OSPF, RIP, MPLS
• Network services: DNS, DHCP, NTP
• IPv4/IPv6 architecture and traffic management
• Experience in QoS, NetFlow, ACLs, NAT, multicast, and wireless technologies (802.11 variants).
• Experience with F5 GTM/LTM, VPN technologies, and Internet proxy solutions.

Data Center & Infrastructure

• Experience managing enterprise data center environments with technologies including:
• Aruba, Arista, Juniper switching
• Firewalls, WAN optimization, IDS/IPS, DLP
• Strong understanding of structured cabling and network facilities.

Operations & Lifecycle Management

• Plan, implement, and document infrastructure changes, including upgrades and migrations.
• Work within ITIL frameworks for incident, change, and problem management.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of experience in global network security environments.
• Preferred certifications:
• CCNP / CCIE
• JNCIE
• Security certifications (CISSP, CISM, or equivalent) are a plus

Key Differentiators Added (for your context)

This version strengthens the JD by:

• Embedding microsegmentation as a core capability (not just one bullet)
• Aligning with Zero Trust and application dependency mapping (important for your programs)
• Emphasizing cross-team collaboration with application owners (critical for rollout success)
• Integrating segmentation with existing firewall + SIEM ecosystem (not replacing, but complementing)