Network Operations Engineer (L3) - Yangon

About the role

An experienced, technically strong L3 Network Operations Engineer is sought to drive network architecture, engineering strategy and operational excellence across enterprise and service provider environments. You will lead complex network design and transformation initiatives, set technical standards, oversee critical incident resolution and ensure the scalability, resilience, security and performance of network infrastructure. The role works closely with operations teams, engineering teams, customers, vendors and business stakeholders, and is based in Yangon.

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design, architecture, implementation and optimization of enterprise and service provider network infrastructure.
• Define network architecture standards, roadmaps, engineering guidelines and best practices.
• Design and optimize routing and switching environments (BGP, MP-BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, EVPN, VXLAN, traffic engineering).
• Architect highly available, resilient solutions with redundancy, failover, disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Lead Tier 3 escalations and critical incident investigations, driving root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Oversee major network transformation projects, migrations, data center connectivity, carrier interconnections and high-capacity circuits.
• Drive capacity planning, traffic forecasting, bandwidth optimization and infrastructure scalability.
• Establish network security architecture (segmentation, firewall integration, secure routing, VPNs, access control, hardening).
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, and lead technical assessments, architecture reviews and PoCs with vendors.
• Drive network automation, standardization, monitoring, telemetry, observability and performance management.
• Set change management, implementation, validation and rollback standards for high-risk changes.
• Mentor network engineers and operations teams, and lead technical discussions with customers, carriers and vendors.
• Review HLDs, LLDs, MOP documents and operational handover plans; run continuous improvement initiatives.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Telecommunications, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive experience in network engineering, network architecture or service provider infrastructure, preferably with a strong technical leadership background.
• Proven experience designing scalable, resilient, high-availability networks in enterprise or ISP environments.
• Experience leading complex migrations, upgrades, architecture transformations and critical incident resolution.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, communication and problem-solving skills; ability to mentor teams and manage competing priorities.
• Professional certifications such as CCIE, CCNP, JNCIP or JNCIE are advantageous.

Required skills

• Routing and switching: BGP, MP-BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, EVPN, VXLAN, advanced routing policy design.
• Service provider technologies: IP Transit, DIA, public peering, IXP connectivity, CGNAT, high-capacity backbones.
• Multi-vendor platforms: Cisco IOS, Juniper Junos.
• Network automation and configuration management with Python, Ansible or similar.
• Monitoring, traffic analytics, telemetry, capacity planning and performance optimization.
• Preferred: large-scale ISP core/metro/backbone/international connectivity, 10G/40G/100G, dark fiber, optical transport, FortiGate/Palo Alto, Kentik/Gigamon, IPv6, IPAM, NetBox, technical governance and architecture review processes.