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 Energy is recruiting for Senior Digital DevOps Infrastructure Consultant on behalf of one of their blue-chip international clients to join their organization in 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.