Immediate / Early joining Network Architect

City: Bengaluru

State/Province: Karnataka

Posting Start Date: 2/4/26

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients' most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Job Description:

Job Description

Role Purpose

The purpose of this role is to provide significant technical expertise in architecture planning and design of the concerned tower (platform, database, middleware, backup etc) as well as managing its day-to-day operations

Job Title: Network Architect / Subject Matter Expert (SME) Location: [Hybrid] Experience Level: Senior (12 years) Certification Requirement: CCIE (R&S / Data Center / Enterprise) - Preferred Employment Type: Full-Time

1. Expert-level hands-on experience with Cisco Nexus 9K/7K/5K series in multi-VDC, vPC, VXLAN-EVPN, and OTV environments.
2. Strong routing/switching expertise on Cisco ISR 4K and ASR 1K/9K platforms with complex Multi-VRF, MPLS, and BGP/EIGRP/OSPF designs.
3. Proven experience supporting medical devices, IoT/OT environments, or other specialized endpoints (segmentation, QoS, security considerations).
4. Vulnerability management lifecycle and firmware/code upgrade planning across large Cisco estates.
5. Advanced Quality of Service (QoS) design and troubleshooting - policy-maps, class-maps, marking, policing, shaping, HQoS.
6. End-to-end site and data center migration projects (L2/L3, DC interconnects, cabling standards, downtime minimization).
7. Bandwidth capacity planning, traffic analysis, and recommendation of upgrades or optimization techniques.
8. Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as SolarWinds Orion, ThousandEyes, Cisco DNA Center (DNAC), Prime Infrastructure, and other NMS platforms.
9. Cisco Wireless LAN expertise - WLC (AireOS & Catalyst 9800), Access Points configuration, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
10. Solid working knowledge of Cisco DNA Center (assurance, automation, SDA fundamentals).
11. Cisco ACI (APIC, Multi-Pod/Multi-Site) and Nexus 9K in both NX-OS and ACI mode; exposure to other multilayer director-class switches.
12. Large-scale network migration experience (campus, branch, data center, cloud on-ramp).
13. Coordination with ISP/MPLS/SD-WAN providers for circuit turn-up, BGP peering, and performance issues.
14. Basic working knowledge of IP Telephony (CUCM, voice gateways, QoS for voice/video).
15. Hands-on SD-WAN experience, especially Cisco Meraki MX (AutoVPN, traffic shaping, security policies) and preferably Viptela/Catalyst SD-WAN.
16. Expert in creating customer-facing High-Level Designs (HLD) and detailed Low-Level Designs (LLD) with diagrams, BoM, IP plans, and migration runbooks.
17. Data center operations exposure - structured cabling standards, rack/stack, power, and physical layer troubleshooting.

• Palo Alto Networks firewalls (PAN-OS, Panorama, GlobalProtect)
• Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) - 802.1X, profiling, posture
• Other security tools (Zscaler)

• Active CCIE certification (R&S, Data Center, or Enterprise Infrastructure) - Mandatory.
• Other relevant certifications (CCDE, CISSP, PCNSE, etc.) highly desirable.