Designs, builds, and supports enterprise network, virtualization, and container platforms. Responsibilities include managing F5 traffic-management infrastructure, VMware vSphere, OpenShift, Kubernetes, high-availability architectures, security integrations, migrations, vulnerability remediation, performance optimization, capacity planning, automation, monitoring, and hybrid-cloud platforms. The role also requires production incident management, root-cause analysis, and stakeholder communication.
Network Engineer
Mandatory requirements
10+ years of relevant experience in telco, ISP, managed services, data centre, or large enterprise networking.
Mandatory hands-on F5 BIG-IP experience, covering LTM and GTM/GSLB, application delivery, SSL offloading, iRules, and traffic-management policies.
Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, SSL/TLS, routing, switching, BGP, OSPF, VRF, NAT, and IPv6.
Demonstrated experience supporting production proxy or secure web gateway platforms.
Experience with high-availability designs, load balancing, failover, and large-scale traffic management.
Strong incident-management, root-cause-analysis, and stakeholder-communication skills.
Preferred requirements
Fortinet experience, particularly FortiGate/FortiOS, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer; Fortinet NSE or equivalent certification is desirable.
Experience with telco-specific security and traffic architectures, such as Gi-LAN, CGNAT, SecGW, GTP firewalling, SASE, ZTNA, WAF, and DDoS protection.
Familiarity with virtualisation and cloud environments, including VMware, KVM, OpenStack, AWS, or Azure.
Exposure to SIEM, syslog analysis, monitoring, automation, and scripting, preferably Python.
Relevant certifications such as F5 CA/CTS, Fortinet NSE, CCNP, or equivalent are advantageous.
3. Role SummarWe are seeking a highly skilled VMware / OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, build and support enterprise-grade virtualisation and container platforms. The role focuses on ensuring high availability, automation, scalability, performance tuning and lifecycle management across on-prem and hybrid cloud environments.Key Responsibilities
NOCR new platforms( VMware, OpenShift, Backup and storage ) and handover to operations
Onboarding platform to security controls ( Nessus, Pentest and Prisma)
Remediate and fix vulnerabilities
Onboarding assets to TPAM/Safeguard platform for privilege access accounts
Tenant and host migrations planning
Onboarding new tenants to the VMware /OpenShift platform
Performance optimization and capacity planning
LDAP/AD integration and UAM onboarding
Manage VMware vSphere infrastructure
Building new ESXI clusters/ servers
Required Skills & Experience
5+ years engineering experience across enterprise VMware platforms:
vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T
Hands-on experience deploying and operating OpenShift clusters (OCP3.x/4.x)
Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containers, registries, operators and networking
Practical automation experience with:
Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Git, Jenkins / GitLab CI , Nessus, Pentest and Prisma
Strong Linux administration (RHEL/CentOS)
Storage and network fundamentals (NFS, iSCSI, Load Balancers, DNS, TLS)
Experience with monitoring and logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk
Nice to Have
RHCSA / RHCE / OpenShift certifications
VMware VCP / VCAP certifications
Cloud knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Experience with Service Mesh, API Gateways or GitOps (ArgoCD)
Scripting: Bash / Python
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