Senior Cisco SD-WAN & Network Specialist

About the role

Join the Global WAN Services team as a Senior Cisco SD-WAN & Network Specialist, responsible for connecting corporate entities, regional offices, and data centers worldwide. You will work in a multicultural, agile team of eight engineers across Malaysia, Europe, and Mexico, operating within a managed‑service framework.

Key responsibilities

• Drive end‑to‑end WAN build activities for new site turn‑ups, acquisitions, office expansions and data‑center integrations across international regions.
• Collaborate with local LAN and data‑center teams to design secure segmentation, VRF mapping and multi‑cloud interconnectivity.
• Design and deploy dynamic routing topologies (BGP, OSPF) over diverse WAN transports to ensure optimal path selection and high availability.
• Serve as senior escalation point for complex network incidents, performing deep‑dive troubleshooting and direct fabric administration.
• Oversee WAN bandwidth evolution, policy fine‑tuning and continuous performance optimisation.

Required profile

• 6+ years of enterprise IT network engineering experience, with at least 5 years in senior‑level roles.
• Hands‑on expertise with Cisco SD‑WAN (Viptela) – design, configuration and troubleshooting of vManage, vSmart, vBond and edge devices.
• Advanced knowledge of BGP, OSPF, multi‑VRF segmentation and overlay/underlay architectures.
• Strong understanding of LAN topologies, data‑center interconnects and enterprise security segmentation.

Required skills

• Cisco SD‑WAN (Viptela) – vManage, vSmart, vBond, edge devices
• Routing protocols: BGP, OSPF
• VRF, network segmentation, multi‑cloud interconnectivity
• LAN and data‑center networking concepts
• English (professional fluency)