Senior Digital DevOps Infrastructure Consultant

Manning Global, an Internationally renowned staffing and managed services organization specializing in providing staffing solutions for leading corporations in AI, IT & Telecoms, Engineering, Digital Media, Automotive and Renewable Energyis recruiting for Senior Digital DevOps Infrastructure Consultanton behalf of one of their blue-chip international clients to join their organizationin Europe.

Job Title:

Senior Digital DevOps Infrastructure Consultant

Employment:

Full time

Start Date:

November/2026

Country:

Amsterdam or Brussels - Hybrid - Netherlands or Belgium

Salary range:

dependent upon experience

Contact:

Bojan Ulemek on: +49 (0) 89 23 88 98 671

Responsibilities:

• Support European customer engagements, with a specific focus on BeNeLux customers and opportunities.

• Drive technical discussions during pre sales engagements and support business development by positioning relevant business services and multi-vendor solutions.

• Lead the design team assigned to customer projects and provide technical leadership in a matrix, multinational environment.

• Lead pilots and proofs of concept from a technical perspective, ensuring agreed success criteria are defined, tested, and documented.

• Build trusted relationships with customer IT stakeholders and business owners.

• Engage and partner with customers to jointly develop architectures that match their requirements and constraints.

• Produce customized architecture standards and complex design documents.

• Design and promote infrastructure automation approaches using infrastructure as code, configuration management, version control, peer review, testing, controlled promotion, rollback, and operational validation.

• Ensuring security is considered from the earliest design stages of network and cloud architectures, rather than added after deployment.

• Collaborate with delivery, engineering, cloud, and security teams to ensure that designs are implementable, supportable, and aligned with customer requirements.

Experience/Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of related professional experience.

• University degree in Communications Systems, Computer Science, or an equivalent qualification.

• Very strong technical knowledge and experience in networks and related services.

• A network-first mindset combined with good practical knowledge of infrastructure automation and DevSecOps practices.

• Networks and Related Services:SD-WAN deployments, including Cisco/Viptela, Silverpeak, Velocloud, Cloudgenix, and uCPE.

• WAN switching and routing, Hybrid WAN, LAN, WLAN, and NAC solutions across Cisco and other vendors.

• SSE solutions such as Palo Alto Prisma, Zscaler, and Netskope.

• Data center network architecture.

• Cloud Networks and Related Services:At least two years of proven experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise-class public cloud connectivity solutions using Azure, AWS, GCP, or Alibaba Cloud network services.

• Deep understanding of connectivity, routing, segmentation, and security considerations across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

• Automation, DevOps, and DevSecOps:Strong Terraform knowledge and hands-on experience are required.

• Familiarity with GitHub and the GitOps operating model.

• Experience with Ansible, Python, or similar scripting and automation technologies.

• Infrastructure Security: Firewalls and next-generation firewalls, web filtering, proxies, IPS/IDS, and SSL VPN.

• Familiarity with zero-trust network principles and their application to enterprise segmentation and access control.

• Previous experience in customer-facing organizations within the ICT industry, including roles working directly with customer IT management.

• Languages: English fluent, Dutch (Flemish) or French are a plus.