About the role

Job Title: Senior DDI & Network Automation Engineer (DNS, DHCP, IPAM)

Location: Noida

Role Overview:

Rebuild and run the DNS, DHCP and IPAM foundation that 40,000+ NXP employees rely on across 30+ countries and make it the backbone for our Zero Trust, hybrid cloud and operations roadmap.

This role owns the "trinity" of networking: DNS, DHCP, and IPAM, across on-premises data centers and AWS / Azure / GCP. You will lead the architecture and engineering of our global EfficientIP SOLIDserver estate, automate everything that should be automated, and serve as the deepest technical authority for anything DDI-related. The bar is 100% uptime for services that, if they fail, take the rest of the network down with them.

What you'll own

Global DDI architecture. Design and evolve a resilient, high-performance DDI estate that spans on-prem data centers and cloud (AWS Route 53, Azure Private DNS, GCP Cloud DNS) under a single operating model.
EfficientIP SOLIDserver lifecycle. Own deployment, patching, version upgrades, and capacity planning for the global SOLIDserver fleet, virtual and physical.
Automation first. Build and maintain the Python / Ansible / Terraform pipelines that turn IPAM requests, DNS records, and onboarding into API calls, not tickets. Drive the team toward true self-service Network-as-a-Service.
Capacity and forecasting. Use historical monitoring data to predict IP exhaustion and appliance resource pressure (CPU / memory / IOPS) before it becomes an incident.
Observability and proactive alerting. Configure threshold-based alerts and DDI health dashboards that catch degradation before users notice. Integrate with our AIOps tooling.
DNS security. Implement and tune DNSSEC, RPZ, and protections against DDoS, cache poisoning, and DNS tunneling. Partner with the security team on Zero Trust DNS posture.
IPAM governance. Define and enforce IP address policies for a complex, multi-site, multi-cloud topology, clean allocation, no surprises.
Tier 3 escalation. Last stop for the hard problems. Wireshark, protocol traces, root cause analysis and a culture of writing the postmortem that prevents the next one.

Technical requirements

Protocol depth. Expert-level DNS (authoritative and recursive), DHCP (failover and relay), IPv4 / IPv6 address space management.
EfficientIP SOLIDserver (preferred). Hands-on with SmartArchitecture, NetBox integration, and API-driven automation. Strong Infoblox or BlueCat backgrounds also welcome.
Automation. Python and Ansible for interacting with DDI APIs (REST / JSON). Terraform is a plus. You are comfortable in a Git-based workflow.
Linux. Confident on Linux-hardened appliances.
Enterprise networking. BGP, Anycast DNS, F5 load balancing, and how they interact with DDI services.

Preferred qualifications

8+ years in network engineering, with 5+ years focused on DDI.
EfficientIP Certified Data Administrator (ECDA) or Certified Expert (ECE).
Hybrid DNS / IPAM experience across AWS Route 53, Azure Private DNS, or GCP Cloud DNS.
Exposure to AI-assisted operations, modern observability stacks (Splunk, ServiceNow ITOM, similar), or SD-WAN / SASE / Zero Trust environments.

How you operate

Precision. One wrong record can take down the enterprise. You know this and act accordingly.
Five-year thinking. You plan capacity and architecture for where the business will be, not where it is.
Cross-team posture. You partner well with DevOps, Security, Cloud, and SRE. DDI lives at the intersection, not in a silo.
Automation bias. If you have done it twice manually, you are already thinking about how to script it.