Senior Network & Security Engineer
Tkxel Punjab, Pakistan
IT Services and IT Consulting · 501-1,000 employees
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About the role
The engineer will design, implement, and maintain secure enterprise network architectures across on-premises, cloud, and Kubernetes environments. They are also responsible for managing security controls, monitoring network traffic, and supporting the secure deployment of AI/ML workloads.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 5 years of professional experience in network and security engineering with strong knowledge of TCP/IP, firewalls, and cloud platforms. Proficiency in Kubernetes security and identity management is highly desirable for this role.
Full description
Senior Network & Security Engineer
Senior Network & Security Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in enterprise networking, cybersecurity, and infrastructure security. Will be responsible for designing, implementing, and securing network and infrastructure environments supporting enterprise applications, AI/ML workloads, Kubernetes, on-premises infrastructure, and cloud platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain secure enterprise network architectures.
- Configure and manage firewalls, VPNs, routers, switches, load balancers, and network security controls.
- Design secure connectivity between on-premises data centers, cloud environments, and Kubernetes clusters.
- Support secure deployment of AI/ML platforms and applications across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Define network segmentation and security zones for applications, databases, AI/ML workloads, and management infrastructure.
- Implement and manage network access controls, firewall policies, VPNs, and secure remote access.
- Secure communication between frontend, backend, APIs, databases, AI/ML services, and external systems.
- Implement and manage TLS/SSL certificates, encryption, secrets, and secure communication protocols.
- Monitor network traffic, securityevents, and infrastructure health.
- Investigate and troubleshoot network and security incidents.
- Perform security assessments and identify vulnerabilities and configuration weaknesses.
- Support vulnerability management, remediation, and security hardening activities.
- Implement appropriate Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
- Work with DevOps and MLOps teams to integrate security into CI/CD and deployment pipelines.
- Review infrastructure and application architectures from a security and network perspective.
- Establish security controls for Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.
- Support security requirements for AI/ML models, APIs, data pipelines, and AI services.
- Maintain network and security documentation, diagrams, configurations, and operational procedures.
- Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and security remediation activities.
Kubernetes & AI/ML Security
- Secure on-premises and cloud Kubernetes environments.
- Implement Kubernetes RBAC, Network Policies, secrets management, and workload isolation.
- Secure communication between Kubernetes services and external enterprise systems.
- Support secure deployment of ML models, inference services, LLMs, RAG applications, and AI agents.
- Secure AI/ML APIs and external model-provider integrations.
- Implement appropriate access controls for model endpoints, data sources, vector databases, and AI services.
- Assess security risks associated with AI/ML workloads, including data exposure, unauthorized access, insecure APIs, and secrets leakage.
- Work with MLOps teams to establish secure model deployment and serving environments.
Cloud & Hybrid Security
Experience securing at least one major cloud platform:
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Responsibilities include:
- Design secure connectivity between cloud and on-premises environments.
- Configure VPC/VNet, subnets, routing, security groups, firewalls, and private endpoints.
- Implement cloud IAM and least-privilege access.
- Secure cloud Kubernetes environments such as AKS, EKS, or GKE.
- Support hybrid and multi-environment architectures.
- Implement cloud security monitoring and logging.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of professional Network and Security Engineering experience.
- Strong experience with enterprise network architecture and security.
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, VPN, routing, switching, and load balancing.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise firewalls and network security appliances.
- Experience with network segmentation, VLANs, routing, and access control.
- Experience with IAM, RBAC, authentication, authorization, and privileged access.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles and security best practices.
- Experience securing Linux and Windows environments.
- Experience with Kubernetes security is highly desirable.
- Experience with cloud networking and security.
- Experience with security monitoring, logging, and incident response.
- Experience with Git and infrastructure/configuration management practices.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
Preferred Technologies
Experience with some of the following is preferred:
- Kubernetes
- Docker
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