Associate Lead, Network Engineer

Role overview

Associate Lead, Network Engineer at KLA

Network Operations & Support

Responsibilities

• Lead daily network operations for LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless, internet, and cloud connectivity.
• Monitor network performance, availability, and capacity using enterprise monitoring tools.
• Ensure high uptime and operational stability across data centers, campuses, manufacturing sites, and remote offices.
• Manage incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem management.
• Leadership & Team Management
• Lead and mentor network engineers and operations staff.
• Assign operational tasks and manage escalation processes.
• Develop operational procedures, standards, and documentation.
• Coordinate with vendors, service providers, and managed service partners.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Partner closely with Security, Cloud, Infrastructure, Application, DevOps, Manufacturing, and Business teams to support enterprise initiatives.
• Participate in enterprise transformation, digital modernization, Zero Trust, and cloud migration programs.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to align network services with operational and strategic business objectives.
• Work with vendors, managed service providers, and third-party partners to deliver operational excellence.
• Infrastructure Support
• Support enterprise routing, switching, wireless, and cloud networking environments.
• Maintain Cisco, Arista, Aruba, or equivalent technologies.
• Support hybrid cloud networking (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Assist in network modernization and transformation initiatives.
• Operational Excellence
• Own day-to-day network operations, including incident and outage response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Define and track KPIs, SLAs, and operational metrics.
• Drive network automation initiatives using scripting, deployment automation and infrastructure-as-code methodologies
• Improve operational efficiency through automated alerting, remediation workflows, and self-healing network capabilities.
• Create executive operational reports and status dashboards.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8+ years of network engineering/operations experience.
• 3+ years of leadership or team lead experience.
• Experience supporting large enterprise or global network environments
• Strong knowledge of:
• Routing & Switching (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, STP)
• F5 BIG-IP platform (WAF, LTM, AFM)
• SD-WAN and wireless networking
• Network monitoring tools
• Incident and change management processes
• Experience with enterprise environments and 24x7 operations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to executive leadership, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to lead meetings, drive collaboration, manage escalations, and present operational updates to technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred qualifications and skills

• CCNP, CCIE, F5, AWS/Azure networking certifications.
• Work with multi-national
• Work experience with in an environment of 10000+ users
• Experience with:
• Cisco ACI
• ClearPass NAC
• Network automation (Python, Ansible)
• ITIL processes
• Manufacturing or healthcare industry experience preferred.
• We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package.
• We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.
• KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer
• Be aware of potentially fraudulent job postings or suspicious recruiting activity by persons that are currently posing as KLA employees.
• KLA never asks for any financial compensation to be considered for an interview, to become an employee, or for equipment.
• Further, KLA does not work with any recruiters or third parties who charge such fees either directly or on behalf of KLA .
• Please ensure that you have searched KLA’s Careers website for legitimate job postings.
• KLA follows a recruiting process that involves multiple interviews in person or on video conferencing with our hiring managers.
• If you are concerned that a communication, an interview, an offer of employment, or that an employee is not legitimate, please send an email to talent.acquisition@kla.com to confirm the person you are communicating with is an employee.
• We take your privacy very seriously and confidentially handle your information.

Employment details

• Location: Chennai [India]

About the employer

• KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem.
• KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D.

Additional role details

• Company Overview
• Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies.
• No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us.
• KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays.
• The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development.
• Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices.
• Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems.
• There is never a dull moment with us.
• Group/Division
• The Information Technology (IT) group at KLA is involved in every aspect of the global business.
• IT’s mission is to enable business growth and productivity by connecting people, process, and technology.
• It focuses not only on enhancing the technology that enables our business to thrive but also on how employees use and are empowered by technology.
• This integrated approach to customer service, creativity and technological excellence enables employee productivity, business analytics, and process excellence.
• Job Description/Preferred Qualifications