Senior Network Engineer

The Job Role as Senior Network Engineer

The Senior Network Engineer will play a key role in the operation, development and continuous improvement of the global network and cloud connectivity infrastructure. The role is part of an international team responsible for ensuring a secure, stable and scalable network environment across multiple regions and business units.

The position focuses on managing and supporting a worldwide network landscape built on Palo Alto, Cisco Meraki, UniFi and Microsoft Azure networking services. Alongside daily operations, troubleshooting and lifecycle activities, the role contributes to global network and cloud connectivity projects, standardization initiatives and the development of automation capabilities. This includes supporting network-process automation, improving documentation and increasing operational efficiency across the global network environment.

The role ensures high network availability, strong security standards and reliable business connectivity worldwide, including connectivity between on-premises environments and cloud platforms. The Senior Network Engineer acts as a technical expert, supports complex incidents and changes, and works closely with colleagues across countries and functions.

What you’ll do

• Design, operate, maintain and continuously improve global network and cloud connectivity infrastructure across multiple regions and business units.
• Design, support and manage network environments based on Palo Alto, Cisco Meraki, UniFi and Microsoft Azure networking services.
• Troubleshoot complex network and cloud connectivity issues, including LAN, WAN, firewall, VPN, routing and Azure networking topics.
• Contribute to global network and cloud projects, including standardization, lifecycle management, migrations and rollouts.
• Support secure connectivity between on-premises environments and Microsoft Azure, including VPN and routing-related configurations.
• Support the development and implementation of network automation to improve efficiency, consistency and reliability.
• Work closely with international IT, cloud and security teams, service providers and local stakeholders.
• Ensure high availability, performance and security of business-critical network and connectivity services.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, network standards and operational procedures.
• Provide technical guidance and act as an escalation point for complex network, firewall, VPN and Azure connectivity topics.
• Identify opportunities to improve network operations, monitoring, automation and service quality.

Key qualifications

Must have

• Strong hands-on experience in network engineering within complex enterprise or global network environments.
• Solid experience with next-generation firewalls, especially Palo Alto Networks.
• Practical experience with Cisco Meraki network environments.
• Practical experience with UniFi network components.
• Strong Azure networking skills, including cloud connectivity and hybrid network environments.
• Strong knowledge of VPN technologies, including site-to-site and remote-access VPN.
• Solid experience with IPsec-based connectivity.
• Strong understanding of routing concepts, including static and dynamic routing.
• Practical experience with BGP.
• Good understanding of network security principles and secure network design.
• Experience troubleshooting complex network issues across LAN, WAN, firewall, VPN, routing and Azure connectivity environments.
• Ability to work in English within an international team.

Nice to have

• Experience with network monitoring tools, ideally Checkmk.
• Basic Linux knowledge and confidence working with Linux-based systems or command-line environments.
• Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Azure Bicep or ARM templates.
• Basic scripting or programming skills, especially Python or PowerShell.
• Experience with Azure-related automation, such as Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions or automated deployment workflows.
• Experience automating network operations, configuration tasks, infrastructure deployments or reporting.
• Familiarity with infrastructure documentation, IP address management or source-of-truth concepts.
• Experience working with APIs and integrating tools or systems.
• Basic understanding of CI/CD concepts or version-control tools such as Git.
• Experience in international or globally distributed IT environments.
• Relevant network, security, automation or cloud certifications.

Personal skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for structured troubleshooting of complex technical issues.
• Clear, confident communication and effective collaboration with international teams, stakeholders and service providers.
• High attention to detail and ownership of network stability, security and service quality.
• Collaborative mindset and strong interpersonal skills in a global team environment.