HCLTech Hiring! Full Time Network Tools Engineer in - Ricebowl

Summary

We are seeking an experienced Network Tool Engineer to design, build, integrate, and manage enterprise network tooling platforms supporting network operations, security, monitoring, and automation. The successful candidate will be responsible for the architecture, lifecycle management, hardening, integration, and continuous improvement of network management platforms including SolarWinds, Infoblox, AlgoSec, Cisco ISE, and Forescout. The role will drive automation, platform integrations, audit reporting, monitoring coverage, and operational efficiency across enterprise network and security environments.

Responsibilities

Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise network tooling platforms:
• SolarWinds (NPM, NCM, NTA)
• Infoblox (DNS, DHCP, IPAM)
• AlgoSec (FireFlow, device onboarding, workflow integration)
• Cisco ISE and Forescout platform integrations
• Engineer platform high availability, backup, recovery, upgrades, and security hardening.
• Design monitoring architecture, polling strategies, alerting standards, dashboards, and reporting.
• Manage device inventories, credential management, and access-control models.

Integration and Automation

• Develop integrations between network tools and enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow.
• Design and maintain automated workflows for change management, compliance reporting, and operational monitoring.
• Develop automation scripts using Python and Ansible.
• Integrate monitoring and logging platforms using APIs, SNMP, telemetry, syslog, and REST services.
• Engineer monitoring coverage during infrastructure migrations and technology refreshes.
• Maintain automation code repositories using Git and peer-review practices.

Governance and Reporting

• Build configuration compliance monitoring and audit reporting.
• Design event correlation and alerting mechanisms to reduce operational noise.
• Develop dashboards and reports covering availability, performance, utilization, and change activities.
• Produce architecture documents, operational procedures, runbooks, and knowledge transfer materials.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 6 years of network engineering experience.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience engineering and integrating enterprise network management platforms.
• Strong engineering experience with SolarWinds, Infoblox, AlgoSec
• Experience with Architecture and solution design, Platform upgrades, High Availability design, Backup and recovery strategy, Enterprise integrations
• Strong Python scripting experience using REST APIs such as: Infoblox WAPI, SolarWinds SWIS, AlgoSec APIs
• Experience integrating platforms with ServiceNow.
• Git-based version control and code review practices.
• Strong understanding of Routing and Switching, SNMP, Syslog, NetFlow
• Network Monitoring and Telemetry