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In this role, you will develop security solutions for networks, design and implement technologies like Cisco SASE, SD-WAN, and firewall segmentation, while conducting complex troubleshooting processes.
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Your role in the team
- The role designs, builds, operates and continuously improves secure connectivity and network security capabilities across enterprise, distribution centre, data centre and cloud environments.
- It provides specialist expertise in Cisco SASE, secure access, firewall segmentation, SD-WAN, and Cisco LAN/WLAN services, enabling business and IT teams to connect users, sites, and applications securely, reliably, and at scale.
- The role translates security architecture principles and business requirements into practical standards, designs, implementation controls and operational services, while providing technical leadership, advanced troubleshooting and vendor governance.
- Maintains recognized expert-level knowledge of Cisco SASE, secure access, network security, firewall segmentation, SD-WAN, and Cisco LAN/WLAN technologies.
- Provides definitive technical advice and acts as the design authority and escalation point for secure connectivity services.
- Consolidates expertise from architects, security teams, operations, vendors, and third-party specialists into coherent recommendations that support organizational objectives.
- Promotes the development, documentation, and sharing of specialist knowledge, standards, and reusable design patterns.
- Monitors developments across SASE, SSE, zero-trust access, firewall, SD-WAN, LAN/WLAN, automation and network security technologies.
- Assesses potential impacts, risks and opportunities, and contributes to technology roadmaps, lifecycle decisions and knowledge sharing.
- Designs secure connectivity components using agreed architectures, standards, patterns and methodologies.
- Leads design reviews for Cisco Secure Access, Secure Connect, Umbrella/SWG, ZTNA, private application access, secure internet breakout, firewall segmentation, and SD-WAN security integration.
- Evaluates design options and trade-offs covering identity-aware access, routing security, traffic steering, policy enforcement, resilience, performance, and operational supportability.
- Produces and reviews HLDs, LLDs, configuration standards, decision records, migration runbooks, rollback plans, and lifecycle roadmaps.
- Develops or applies scripts, APIs, and automation using technologies such as Python, PowerShell, or Ansible for configuration validation, reporting, and operational efficiency.
- Applies agreed engineering standards and participates in reviews of automation and technical work products.
- Defines acceptance criteria, test plans, traceability, rollback expectations, monitoring readiness, and operational handover requirements for deployments and major changes.
- Provides technical expertise for platform configuration, integration builds, and test environments across SASE, firewalls, SD-WAN, LAN/WLAN, identity, monitoring, ITSM, and security controls.
- Analyses and documents test results, defects, risks, and remediation actions, and drives improvements to engineering processes and tools.
- Analyses service availability, reliability, maintainability, capacity and performance, and initiates actions to address risks or shortfalls.
- Ensures services and components meet agreed performance targets, service levels, resilience requirements and recovery expectations.
- Supports capacity modeling, disaster recovery planning, recovery testing, and continuous service improvement.
- Provides SME input for release planning, deployment, early-life support, incident management, problem management, and root-cause analysis.
- Leads advanced troubleshooting of complex security, access, routing, segmentation, SD-WAN, LAN/WLAN, and performance issues using logs, telemetry, packet captures, and vendor support.
- Ensures release, configuration, documentation, and operational handover processes are maintained.
- Implements stakeholder engagement and communication plans with business IT, architects, information security, platform engineering, operations, and regional IT teams.
- Governs vendors and implementation partners, reviews deliverables, validates implementation quality, and drives corrective actions in line with enterprise standards.
- Communicates technical risks, options, trade-offs and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Supports recruitment and hiring decisions and allocates work based on experience, complexity, workload and organisational efficiency.
- Monitors team workload and provides team members or direct reports with clear direction and targets aligned with business and Global IT objectives.
Our expectations of you
Education
- Four-year college or university degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or a related area, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience.
Qualifications
- Proficient spoken and written command of English.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of Cisco SASE technologies, including Cisco Secure Access, Cisco Secure Connect, Cisco Umbrella, SWG, CASB/DLP concepts, ZTNA, and identity-aware policy enforcement.
- Familiarity with Check Point firewalls and/or Zscaler security services is an advantage.
- Cisco certification such as CCIE Enterprise/Security is a must, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
- Strong analytical, communication, and ownership skills, with the ability to manage technical risk, documentation quality, service stability, and continuous improvement.
Experience
- At least 10 years of progressive network engineering experience in enterprise or multinational environments, including substantial experience in network security and secure connectivity.
- Strong experience with firewall segmentation, routing and switching, BGP, MPLS, VPN, QoS, DNS, DHCP, high availability, Meraki or Catalyst SD-WAN, and Cisco LAN/WLAN technologies.
Benefits
Work-Life-Integration
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About your employer
adidas is a global company with German roots. With over 57,000 employees, we are a truly international organization, with people from around 100 different countries working at our headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany - the "World of Sports." We are proud to be a leading employer in the region and to have such a diverse and talented workforce.
- 250+ Employees
- English
- Established Company
- Onsite, Hybrid
- Sports, Leisure · Logistics, Transportation
Employer reviews
3.5Total(1 review)
- Career growth
- 3.4
- Team culture
- 3.8
- Engineering
- 2.9
- Working conditions
- 4.0
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