Data Center & Cloud Network Engineer (H/F) (IT) / Freelance

Data Center & Cloud Network engineering services include designing, engineering, delivering, and supporting those products and services that strongly contribute to the One Network program initiative.

Services: The service is responsible for defining, advertising, and ensuring the delivery of sustainable, robust, and secured solutions. In close collaboration with Group Security, CTO, and the One Network Program, the service will propose solutions at the right cost and bring business value to support the corporate business and lines of business strategies.

Main Activities:

1. Contribute and support medium to long-term product evolution and continuous product improvement.
2. Manage the advisory, selection, design, secure build & integration for the products in scope.
3. Facilitate communications and interactions between functional groups, IT Services, strategic partners, and vendors.
4. Ensure QOS delivery and support of solutions.
5. Provide high expertise support on products and services.

Candidate Profile:

1. Strong expertise in driving large architecture, standardization & transformation initiatives.
2. Main focus on DC technologies with Cisco ACI and Vmware NSX-T competencies.
3. Proven expertise in automation based on Terraform, Ansible, and Python.
4. Maintain deep understanding of Network technology and market practices (competition landscape, technology trends) with a very good/established level of expertise.
5. Must have strong expertise in Network design patterns, Security solutions & IT infrastructure best practices.
6. Expertise in managing Data Center ACI, Switch Fabric, Load-balancer, VMWARE NSX-T.
7. Expertise in Network Security products, SASE, VPN (Cisco, F5), Firewalling (Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco, Algosec), Web gateways (McAfee), Segmentation technologies, identity services, voice, wifi, SDWAN, LAN wired, WAN, MPLS will be appreciated.
8. Senior expertise in Network Domain in an international and Matrix organization.
9. Proven expertise in today’s Network and infrastructure challenges and trends, mostly at Infrastructure and Technical levels.
10. Established and demonstrably productive technical relationships with major IT vendors.
11. Gather, combine and analyze business and technical requirements from critical constituents. Recommend appropriate technological designs and solutions that align with business requirements, the company’s technical strategy, and provide the most efficient and cost-effective solution.