Job Summary
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences, we deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Digital Technology Solutions: Accelerating innovation through data, technology and digital transformation, building intelligent solutions that enhance experiences and power smarter decisions.
The role is based in Chennai, India (Onsite role). Be part of a motivated, passionate, and open-minded team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
Administer, monitor, and maintain Cisco routers, switches, wireless LAN controllers, and access points across the enterprise environment.
Investigate and resolve LAN, WAN, WLAN, routing, switching, and connectivity issues while ensuring minimal business disruption.
Implement, monitor, and troubleshoot routing protocols such as OSPF, BGP, and EIGRP to ensure optimal network performance.
Manage and troubleshoot wireless LAN infrastructure, including access points and wireless LAN controllers (WLCs).
Support network security technologies and authentication protocols such as TACACS+, RADIUS, and 802.1X.
Support data center networking environments, including F5 Load Balancers and Citrix NetScaler, while ensuring high availability and reliability.
Utilize monitoring tools such as HP NNM and SolarWinds to proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve network issues.
Configure and maintain SD-WAN environments, including underlay connectivity using broadband, 4G, and 5G WAN technologies.
Prepare and update High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), network diagrams, Visio schematics, operational procedures, and transformation documentation.
What Makes You the Right Fit
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or any other related discipline.
Minimum 3–5 years of hands-on experience in IT infrastructure, network support, or administration.
Hands-on experience with Cisco routers, switches, Cisco IOS, wireless LAN controllers (WLCs), and access points.
Strong understanding of the OSI Model and TCP/IP protocol suite, including IP, ARP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, SNMP, FTP, and TFTP.
Experience configuring and troubleshooting routing protocols such as OSPF, BGP, and EIGRP.
Hands-on experience managing and troubleshooting wireless LAN environments, including access points and wireless LAN controllers.
Ability to prepare High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), Visio network diagrams, and infrastructure documentation.
Strong problem-solving and incident management skills, ability to communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders, and preferably CCNA/CCNP certification.
Effective listening, verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
How Would You Stand Out?
Ability to troubleshoot and resolve network issues independently
Understanding of Data Center networking and load balancer is a plus.
CCNA/CCNP certification is preferred.
Why Choose Us?
Multinational and supporting environment
Health insurance
Training opportunities
Learning and development programs
We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline
- Minimum 3-5 years hands-on experience in IT infrastructure, network support, or administration
- Hands-on experience with Cisco routers, switches, Cisco IOS, wireless LAN controllers (WLCs), and access points
- Strong understanding of OSI Model and TCP/IP protocol suite (IP, ARP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, SNMP, FTP, TFTP)
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting routing protocols such as OSPF, BGP, and EIGRP
- Hands-on experience managing and troubleshooting wireless LAN environments
- Support network security technologies and authentication protocols (TACACS+, RADIUS, 802.1X)
- Experience with monitoring tools such as HP NNM and SolarWinds
- Configure and maintain SD-WAN environments including underlay connectivity using broadband, 4G, and 5G
- Ability to prepare High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), Visio network diagrams, and infrastructure documentation
- Strong problem-solving, incident management skills and effective verbal/written communication
- Understanding of data center networking and load balancers (F5, Citrix NetScaler)
- CCNA or CCNP certification
IFF Family of Companies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about IFF Family of Companies and has not been reviewed or approved by IFF Family of Companies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive in many roles and locations, and compensation is often described as good.
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Parental & Family Support — A global minimum of 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents is in place. This policy is positioned as a notable component of the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Core offerings include paid time off, sick days, holidays, and sabbatical leave. Flexible scheduling options such as compressed workweeks and hybrid/remote arrangements are available where feasible.
IFF Family of Companies Insights
What We Do
Meet IFF: We boldly bring together science and creativity to create what the world needs. An industry leader in food, beverage, health and biosciences, we create essential solutions – from global icons to unexpected innovations and experiences. Equal parts outspoken and analytical, our international collective of thinkers working with customers to bring scents, tastes, experiences, ingredients and solutions for products people crave. With 24,000 employees across 65 countries, more than 110 manufacturing facilities, 100 R&D centers, and 33,000 customers across the world, we’re poised to make a difference on an unprecedented scale. Without our boundary-pushing passion and end-to-end expertise, the future wouldn’t be the same. Visit us at www.iff.com to learn more about how our talented people and new technology are challenging the expected, championing creators and doing more good for people and planet. Explore what sets us apart.
