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.