Sr. Consultant - Cloud Solutions

Publication date : Sep 22, 2026, 12:00AM

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Job Title

Sr. Consultant - Cloud Solutions

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Expert to take end-to-end technical ownership of the Evolution Platform VNE (Virtual Network Edge) Service, ensuring a highly available, scalable, automated, and secure platform who has evolved into a DevOps/SRE/Automation expert.

Relevant Experience

• 8+ years of experience in Network Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure or related technology domains.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, automation and platform engineering, preferably within telecom, networking, NaaS, SDN/NFV or cloud infrastructure environments.
• 5+ years of experience with Virtual Network Edge (VNE), VNF/VNFaaS, SDN/NFV or virtualized network services.

Key Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end technical ownership of the Evolution Platform VNE Service, including architecture, deployment, lifecycle management, availability, performance, and continuous improvement.
• Define and implement platform standards, engineering practices, and operational processes.
• Ensure scalability, reliability, security, and resilience of the VNE environment.
• Troubleshoot complex platform and production issues and lead root-cause analysis and permanent remediation.
• Develop reusable automation frameworks, scripts, APIs, and tooling.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for VNE services and platform components.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Python or equivalent.
• Design and implement end-to-end automation for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, configuration, testing, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with architecture, development, operations, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Evaluate new technologies and identify opportunities to improve the VNE service.
• Ensure high availability and reliability of the VNE service through proactive monitoring, capacity management, performance optimization, and resilience engineering.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management from a technical perspective.
• Establish automated health checks, alerting, remediation, and recovery mechanisms.
• Drive reduction of MTTR and operational toil through automation.
• Act as the technical SME and escalation point for VNE-related platform and automation challenges.
• Lead technical initiatives from concept through implementation and operational handover.

Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills

• Knowledge of SDN/NFV, Kubernetes networking, service mesh, or network orchestration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Virtual Network Edge (VNE), VNF/VNFaaS, SDN and NFV concepts and technologies.
• Experience in deploying, configuring, operating and troubleshooting virtual network functions such as Firewall, Router, SD-WAN, Cloud Networking and SSE/SASE.
• Understanding of VNE lifecycle management - provisioning, configuration, modification, upgrade, patching, scaling, monitoring and decommissioning.
• Strong understanding of VNF service chaining and interconnection with Internet, WAN/MPLS and public/private cloud.
• Experience working with multi-vendor network/security functions and integrating vendor releases into a common platform.
• Managed multi-vendor SD-WAN/SASE/firewall environments.
• Experience working with multi-vendor network and security technologies, preferably including Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Versa, VeloCloud, HPE Aruba, Zscaler, Netskope, Aviatrix or equivalent.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across VNE ¿ VNF ¿ virtual infrastructure ¿ network connectivity ¿ cloud/service layer.
• Strong knowledge of IP networking, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NAT, routing and switching.
• Hands-on knowledge of BGP, OSPF, VRF, MPLS/IP-VPN, VLAN/VXLAN and IPsec.
• Strong understanding of VPN connectivity and network segmentation.
• Excellent Python scripting/programming skills.
• Experience with REST APIs, JSON/YAML and API-driven automation.
• Experience automating network configuration using Ansible/Terraform or equivalent.
• Strong experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, network services and platform components.
• Experience designing monitoring and observability for network and virtualized services.
• Strong production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis capabilities.
• Experience reducing MTTR, operational toil and manual intervention.
• Proven experience operating business-critical production services in a 24×7 environment.
• Strong knowledge of observability and service assurance using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch and equivalent platforms.
• Good understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and cloud-native architectures, with practical experience in containerized environments preferred.

You bring rigor, passion for challenges, and determination. You seek the opportunity to expand your expertise, achieve your goals, and thrive.

• Global Opportunities: Work in multi-national teams with opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and customers from all over the world.

• Flexible Work Environment: Flexible working hours and possibility to combine work from office and home (hybrid ways of working).

• Professional Development: training programs and upskilling/re-skilling opportunities.

• Career Growth: Internal growth and mobility opportunities within Orange.

• Caring and Daring Culture: Health and well-being programs and benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives, CSR and employee connect events.

• Reward Programs: Employee Referral Program, Change Maker Awards.

At Orange, only your skills matter.

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