Network Systems Developer

Role overview

Network Systems Developer at Ford India

As a Network Monitoring & Observability Engineer, you will be responsible for administering network monitoring platforms, defining monitoring standards, and automating observability solutions.

Responsibilities

• You will support both current and future monitoring technologies while ensuring operational reliability and meaningful visibility into network performance, availability, and health.
• Manage platform installations, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and lifecycle activities.
• Monitor system health, capacity, and platform performance.
• Implement baselining and anomaly detection strategies.
• Maintain operating systems, file systems, databases, security configurations, and scheduled jobs.
• Maintain documentation and change history for production configurations.

Required qualifications

• Network Monitoring & Observability Strong understanding of network monitoring principles including polling intervals, retention policies, baselining, and anomaly detection.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise monitoring platforms.
• Strong knowledge of SNMP, including MIBs, OIDs, notifications, and security models.
• Experience implementing traffic-flow monitoring using NetFlow, sFlow, or IPFIX.
• Networking Fundamentals CCNA-level understanding of TCP/IP networking concepts.
• Knowledge of latency, packet loss, jitter, routing, and subnetting.
• Understanding of routing protocols and network health indicators, including BGP and OSPF.
• Ability to troubleshoot connectivity issues involving firewalls, ACLs, and routing.
• Linux Administration Experience administering Linux systems such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, or Ubuntu.
• Familiarity with log analysis, system performance troubleshooting, and database fundamentals.
• Automation & Development Proficiency in Python scripting.
• Experience consuming and integrating REST APIs.
• Experience using Git and modern version-control workflows.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Experience migrating between network monitoring or observability platforms.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or similar observability solutions.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience with time-series databases and telemetry architectures.
• Exposure to cloud-based network monitoring solutions. #LI-MF2

Employment details

• Location: Chennai [India]

Additional role details

• This role requires a strong understanding of network monitoring principles, enterprise networking, Linux administration, and Python-based automation.
• Network Management System Administration Administer enterprise monitoring platforms such as SevOne, Netcool, ThousandEyes, ScienceLogic, Selector.ai, LogicMonitor, and Prometheus.
• Monitoring Strategy & Standards Design and maintain monitoring standards and templates.
• Define key performance indicators and alerting thresholds for routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and other network infrastructure.
• Linux Platform Administration Manage Linux servers supporting monitoring platforms.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues impacting monitoring services.
• Automation & Integration Develop Python scripts to automate device onboarding, reporting, and platform integrations.
• Integrate monitoring platforms using REST APIs and automation workflows.
• Improve operational efficiency through automation and self-service capabilities.
• Configuration & Version Management Use Git for version control of scripts, configuration files, and automation artifacts.
• Data Collection & Telemetry Configure and optimize Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Syslog, NetFlow, sFlow, IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX), and streaming telemetry.
• Ensure reliable collection, storage, and analysis of monitoring data.