A networking and telecom team in Misrod, Bhopal, is hiring a Junior Network Engineer for a full-time, on-site role. The position covers the hands-on side of keeping a live network running: hardware, connectivity, monitoring, and the planning required to stay ahead of growth. The team supports roughly a dozen office locations across the city, so the network this engineer touches isn't a single small setup but a handful of interconnected sites with their own quirks.
Day-to-day work
- Configure and maintain switches, routers, and other core network hardware across office sites
- Troubleshoot connectivity issues reported by staff, working through the physical layer up to routing and DNS when the obvious fixes don't work
- Monitor network performance and security dashboards for early signs of trouble, from a saturated link to an unfamiliar device showing up on the LAN
- Apply firmware updates and patches on a scheduled basis, and document any configuration change made along the way
- Help plan capacity ahead of new hires, office expansions, or added infrastructure, flagging where current hardware is close to its limits
- Coordinate with the ISP account team when an outage traces back to the upstream connection rather than internal equipment
Expect a decent mix of planned maintenance and reactive firefighting. Some days are quiet, spent updating documentation or reviewing switch configs; others start with a call about an entire floor losing connectivity an hour before a client visit, and the fix has to happen fast. A senior engineer usually leads the response on anything that touches more than one site at once, but a junior hire is expected to handle single-site outages independently within the first couple of months.
Skills required
- Working knowledge of networking protocols, particularly TCP/IP
- Practical routing and switching skills, including VLAN and subnet configuration
- Comfort configuring and maintaining firewalls
- Methodical troubleshooting ability, not guesswork, when connectivity breaks
Good to have
A CCNA certification, even in progress, tells this team you've already put in the study hours most juniors skip. Exposure to cloud networking concepts, such as VPC setup on AWS or Azure, is increasingly useful as more infrastructure moves off-premises. Some familiarity with a monitoring tool like SolarWinds or Nagios helps too, though the team is happy to train someone up on the specific tools in use here. Basic scripting ability, even something as simple as a Python script to parse log files, tends to save a surprising amount of manual work once you've been in the role for a while. None of this is a strict requirement at the junior level; it mostly affects how quickly someone moves past the basics.
What gets you in the door
A bachelor's degree is the baseline for this role. Most candidates studied electronics or computer science, though the team has hired people from other technical backgrounds who could clearly explain how a switch handles a broadcast storm. Nine months of hands-on experience working with a live network, whether through a job, internship, or a well-documented home lab, is what this posting is looking for. A home lab counts toward that experience bar just as much as job time does, provided the candidate can speak to what actually broke and how it got fixed, rather than reciting a setup guide from memory.
Pay and what comes with it
The role pays ₹38,500 per month, which is close to the typical monthly salary for a junior-level network engineer in Bhopal. Reviews happen annually, and a raise beyond the standard cost-of-living adjustment is realistic once someone can confidently handle solo tickets and has a full cycle of on-call under their belt. On top of the base salary:
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Provident fund contributions
- Relocation assistance for candidates moving from outside Bhopal
- Accommodation support while settling in near Misrod
Working out of Misrod
This is a fully on-site role, so remote work isn't an option here. Misrod sits on the eastern edge of Bhopal, and the office keeps standard business hours, with occasional after-hours calls when hardware fails outside normal working hours. Naukri Mitra lists this as one of a few open network engineer jobs for freshers in Bhopal right now, and the hiring manager has said they want to fill it within the month, given how stretched the current on-call rotation has gotten. New hires typically shadow a senior engineer for the first few weeks before taking on solo tickets, which gives them enough runway to get comfortable with the specific hardware stack before anything critical lands on their desk. The stack itself is a mix of Cisco switches at most sites and a couple of Juniper routers at the two larger offices, so some cross-vendor familiarity helps even though deep expertise in either isn't expected on day one.
Team size is small enough that everyone knows the network topology by heart within a couple of months, and large enough that no single person understands how a given segment is wired. That balance matters more for a junior hire than it might seem at first, since it means help is close by without someone hovering over every decision. On-call duty rotates roughly once every five weeks once a new hire has been signed off as ready, and it comes with a modest stipend on top of the base salary during the week someone's carrying the pager.
How to apply
Send a resume along with any details on hands-on network experience, whether from prior work, coursework, or personal projects. Shortlisted candidates go through a brief technical conversation covering routing fundamentals and a couple of troubleshooting scenarios, followed by a discussion with the hiring manager about the start date and relocation needs, if applicable. Local candidates and those already searching for network engineer jobs in Misrod, Bhopal specifically tend to move through the process a little faster, mainly because scheduling the in-person round is simpler. Offers are usually extended within a week of the final conversation, and the current team lead has been known to answer a follow-up question or two by phone if a candidate needs more detail on the on-call setup before deciding.
