Lead System Engineer - ACI COE

Société Générale · Bengaluru

  • Experience10–15 yrs
  • SalaryNot disclosed
  • Work modeonsite
  • Posted29 Sept 2026

About Société Générale

Société Générale is hiring in Bengaluru in financial services. This role looks for around 10+ years of experience.

Skills

  • Cisco ACI
  • VXLAN
  • BGP
  • OSPF
  • MPLS
  • Cisco Nexus
  • VRF
  • Splunk
  • NetFlow
  • Python
  • Ansible
  • CCNA
  • CCNP

The role

A network engineer at a financial services company designs and operates datacenter networking with Cisco ACI and VXLAN, troubleshoots BGP and OSPF, and automates deployments with Ansible and Python. Cisco ACI, VXLAN, BGP, OSPF, Ansible, and Python support large enterprise network architecture and production incident resolution.

Full job description

Responsibilities

Relevant experience: 10-15 years

Primary Skills – Expert in on Datacenter Network with product experience on Cisco ACI,

Able to help with Deploy and Troubleshoot above technologies without any supervision .

Experience in working on heterogeneous network with managing various technologies .

Able to Train Junior members in the team

Proficient on DC deployment with VRF , MPLS , VXLAN, Cisco Nexus and routing Protocol .

Expert on BGP and OSPF Routing protocols

Troubleshooting skills on Production issues using Various tools – Splunk , Netflow , Debugging of network logs

Review Network standards and recommend new hardware standards on Datacenter networking

Plan, design, and document ACI architecture and deploy automated templates (with zero touch provisioning) to all locations.

Configure security zones & VRF’s to control the traffic on ACI.

Developing, implementing, and deploying ACI, NDO, NDI, Multipod and VXLAN

Providing support and troubleshooting technical issues

Creating and following ACI implementation plans

participate in other next-gen technical project delivery

Work with cross functional team for solution development and training and knowledge sharing

Acts a single point of Technical contact during Technical Escalation Management

Practices to make devices & operations more efficient

Perform hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, network designs, and network deployments using new products and feature.

Overall responsibility of expert level for technical support (Incident, Problem, Critical Changes)

Good to moderate knowledge on IP Networking CCNA /CCNP, Routing protocols (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP) and switching (VLAN, Trunking, Dot1x, various flavors of STP)

Experience in planning and designing or operating service provider or large enterprise WAN/LAN networks.

Good communication skills

Take the lead in outage calls

Own and drive root cause and permanent resolution

Perform moderate network changes

CCNA /CCNP, Routing protocols (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP) and switching (VLAN, Trunking, Dot1x, various flavors of STP)

Experience in planning and designing or operating service provider or large enterprise WAN/LAN networks.

Review network design and provide recommendation on Low Level Designs and configuration standards

Able to debug production issues

Scripting knowledge using Python or Ansible

Able to lead production issues and manage issues with large senior stakeholders

Day to day work:

Review the existing process and update it for being more autonomous.

Propose new process and create new documentations.

Define improvement plan: how to decrease number of alarm and escalations.

Deal with Paris NRE TEAM to have approval or be autonomous on the resolution of the incident / alarms.

Give an improvement plan for reducing number of tickets escalated to Paris team.

Profile required

Abilities / Skills Required

Strong stakeholder engagement / Client Relationship Management

Very good attitude, good listener and adapter

Motivated and proactive and ready to take more challenges

Lead incident as final point of escalation

Why join us

“We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status”.

Business insight

At Société Générale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious. Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA. If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

Still hesitating?

You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities. There are many ways to get involved.

We are committed to support accelerating our Group’s ESG strategy by implementing ESG principles in all our activities and policies. They are translated in our business activity (ESG assessment, reporting, project management or IT activities), our work environment and in our responsible practices for environment protection.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are an equal opportunities employer and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. Societe Generale is committed to recognizing and promoting all talents , regardless of their beliefs, age, disability, parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, membership of a political, religious, trade union or minority organisation, or any other characteristic that could be subject to discrimination.