Systems Engineering Manager - Network Security

Tesco Bengaluru: We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.

Important Notice: 

On behalf of Tesco Bengaluru, we must caution all job seekers and educational institutions that Tesco Bengaluru does not authorise any third parties to release employment offers or conduct recruitment drives via a third party. Hence, beware of inauthentic and fraudulent job offers or recruitment drives from any individuals or websites purporting to represent Tesco. Further, Tesco Bengaluru does not charge any fee or other emoluments for any reason (including without limitation, visa fees) or seek compensation from educational institutions to participate in recruitment events. 

Accordingly, please check the authenticity of any such offers before acting on them and where acted upon, you do so at your own risk. Tesco Bengaluru shall neither be responsible for honouring or making good the promises made by fraudulent third parties, nor for any monetary or any other loss incurred by the aggrieved individual or educational institution. 

In the event that you come across any fraudulent activities in the name of Tesco Bengaluru, please feel free report the incident at recruitment_compliance_india@tesco.com 

Summary: A System Engineering Manager, manages a team of Systems Engineers working within Datacentre Network, Point of Presence(PoP) core networks, Public/Private cloud solutions(IAAS, PAAS, SAAS)  & Security function. They have responsibility for network infrastructure in terms of service levels, improvements, technology direction and people management. He /She will be proficient in network technologies but will be focused on building a team that can run with the technical work in the most efficient and optimal manner.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage activities of members of the systems engineering job family, building a team culture for continuous improvement and environment where engineers want to work. You will recruit and support the development of members of staff.
• Ensure your team meets exceeds required quality standards, commitments, service assurance and objectives.
• Drives adoption of Evaluate new tools, techniques & processes and being able to understand their value and impact.
• Understand current application development techniques (12 factor app) and its implications to infrastructure
• Build/Manage a team with structure and capabilities to support incidents in live manage RUN (IM,PM,CM etc) of the network infrastructure and support the relationship to Engineering.
• Support the team in resolving incident and protect them from external influence.
• Keep technical skills up to date and keep track of new technologies, understanding how they might benefit the Technology team and wider Tesco.
• Manage team performance and improve capabilities by defining training plans, objectives, providing feedbacks
• Spot talent/high performance in the team and providing timely reward and recognition.
• Responsible for Service introduction for transformation programmes in network area
• Responsible for Network Capacity Management & Release management
• Managing external suppliers and responsible for measuring, improving service provided.
• Managing stakeholder communication and escalations 

• 14+ years of experience in similar field, with minimum of 5+ years of experience in people manager role
• Datacentre network technologies including Routing & Switching, Loadbalancing, Network security (Firewalls, VPN, Proxies, SSL Certs),  DNS/DHCP.
• Knowledge in Design & Implementation of advanced networking architectures and interconnectivity options(i.e IPVPN, multiprotocol label switching(MPLS), Virtual private LAN services(VPLS)
• Experience in Design & Implementation of Data Center Networks involving Cisco Nexus, Arista & Advanced Switching technologies (FHRP / VPC / VDC )
• Knowledge of CIDR and sub-netting (IPv4 and IPv6); IPv6 transition challenges and generic solutions for network security features, including WAF, Intrusion detection & prevention systems(IDS/IPS), DDoS protection and economic denial of service/sustainability(EDoS).
• Knowledge of Public cloud (AWS, Azure) and private cloud technologies - Vmware/NSX, SDDC, SDN..
• Familiarity with the development of Automation scripts and monitoring tools, AI Ops.