Network engineer

About the role

Location: Brussels, hybrid — 3 days onsite, 2 days remote. Contract: B2B / freelance, 24 months project with yearly contracts. Eligibility: EU citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Running critical network and security services, handling complex incidents and 3rd-level escalations, coordinating with vendor support, contributing to problem management and root-cause analysis, and monitoring service quality against SLAs; also helping define operational metrics and drive continuous improvement.
• Designing and evaluating new network and security solutions, running technical assessments and proofs of concept, defining target architectures, recommending technologies, leading migrations and supervising deployments; performance analysis, optimisation and capacity forecasting.
• Building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code, implementing network automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, and developing operational tooling, integrations and management platforms to modernise how the network is operated.
• Maintaining configuration standards and operational procedures, supporting platform lifecycle management, ensuring compliance and backup strategy, and producing technical documentation and training material.

Requirements

• Substantial experience operating enterprise-scale network and security infrastructure in an SLA-driven environment
• Strong working knowledge of ITIL and ICT service management practice
• A track record of designing, deploying and running complex network and data centre infrastructure
• Comfort operating at 3rd level on genuinely complex incidents, including vendor escalation
• Vendor certifications are valued
• EU citizenship, and the ability to be onsite in Brussels three days a week

Skills

• Ansible
• Python
• GitLab CI/CD
• NetBox
• Infrastructure-as-code
• Network automation and orchestration
• Container networking (Kubernetes, Docker)
• eBPF
• Hybrid cloud integration
• Enterprise configuration management and compliance tooling

Pay

€425 per day

Schedule

Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote per week