Senior NOC Engineer Role in Dehradun
This full-time, on-site Senior NOC Engineer role is based in Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248013, on Sahastradhara Road. Pay is ₹1,24,500 per month. Whoever takes this seat is responsible for the network's health around the clock, working from a monitoring desk with the goal of catching problems before customers notice them. The infrastructure spans several regional offices connected through a mix of leased lines and MPLS circuits, so much of the job is understanding how a fault in one location ripples through the rest of the topology.
Core responsibilities
- Configuring and maintaining network hardware across routers, switches, and firewalls spanning multiple sites.
- Troubleshooting connectivity issues, from a single branch office losing its link to a broader routing problem affecting several locations at once.
- Monitoring network performance and security continuously, watching for degraded links, unusual traffic patterns, or early signs of a security event.
- Planning capacity for future growth, projecting bandwidth and hardware needs ahead of new site rollouts or traffic increases.
Seven and a half years of experience puts a candidate well past the point of needing supervision on routine work. At this level, you'd be the person junior NOC staff escalate to at 2 a.m. when a core switch starts flapping, and you'd be expected to have already ruled out the obvious causes before you even wake the network architect. A recent example from this team: a fiber cut on a leased line took down redundant paths that everyone assumed were independent, and untangling that assumption under pressure is exactly the kind of judgment call this role needs. Getting to the bottom of that particular incident took most of a night and a fair amount of patience with a carrier who kept insisting nothing was wrong on their end.
Education and experience
A completed bachelor's degree is required, with electronics or computer science being the fields most senior NOC engineers here came up through, though we've seen strong candidates from telecommunications engineering as well. The degree requirement doesn't go beyond bachelor's level for this position.
We expect 90 months of hands-on network operations experience. A CCNA or CCNP certification is required, and CCNP carries more weight for a senior opening like this one because it demonstrates depth beyond entry-level routing and switching concepts.
Skills required
- Network monitoring tools. Fluent with at least one enterprise monitoring platform, able to build and read alerting thresholds that actually catch problems without drowning the team in false positives.
- Incident response. Leading a network incident from first alert to resolution, including clear updates to stakeholders while the issue is still live.
- Troubleshooting. Systematic diagnosis across Layer 2 and Layer 3, comfortable reading packet captures when the symptom doesn't match any obvious cause.
Beyond the core three, familiarity with SD-WAN deployments, hands-on BGP configuration experience, and exposure to network automation through Python or Ansible will strengthen an application meaningfully. None of these are mandatory, though candidates with BGP experience specifically tend to move faster through the technical interview since it comes up often in the scenario questions. Some prior exposure to a ticketing and change management system such as ServiceNow or Jira Service Management is also useful, mainly because senior engineers here are expected to write clean change requests rather than pushing configuration updates informally.
Compensation and benefits
The package tied to the ₹1,24,500 monthly salary includes:
- Group health cover that extends to your spouse and children, with premiums paid by the company.
- Paid time off following the standard company calendar.
- A performance-linked bonus based on network uptime and incident resolution metrics reviewed each cycle.
- Relocation assistance and accommodation support for candidates moving to Dehradun, standard practice among employers hiring on-site along Sahastradhara Road.
How the NOC operates here
The team runs a 24x7 shift rotation with four engineers covering the schedule, and senior engineers rotate through night shifts like everyone else rather than being exempt. Escalation from the NOC to the network architecture team happens through a documented process rather than informal pinging, which keeps handoffs clean during a live incident. Naukri Mitra carries this listing alongside similar networking roles in the region, and Dehradun's growing data center presence has pushed demand for experienced NOC engineers up noticeably over the past couple of years.
The reporting line runs to the network operations manager, and there's a monthly review where the whole team walks through the month's incidents, what caused them, and whether any pattern points to a hardware refresh or a design change worth pushing up the chain. Being able to speak clearly in that setting, not just fix things quietly at 3 a.m., is part of what separates a senior engineer from someone still building toward it.
Night shifts are genuinely quieter most of the time, which some people find they prefer once they adjust to the hours. The trade-off is that when something does break at 3 a.m., you're often the only technical person awake until the escalation path kicks in, so comfort working alone under pressure matters as much as the technical checklist above.
Application process
Send a resume along with details of your certification status and the scale of network you've managed, number of sites, approximate device count, whatever gives an accurate picture. The process has three stages: a technical screening covering routing and troubleshooting scenarios, a practical exercise diagnosing a simulated network fault, and a final discussion with the NOC manager about shift preferences. The full cycle typically runs about two to three weeks, with all interview stages held on-site. Candidates who can walk through a past outage in specific technical detail, rather than in general terms, tend to stand out most clearly during the screening round.
