Lead NetOps Engineer
As a Lead NetOps Engineer, the successful candidate will design and evolve the network infrastructure that keeps the global platform fast, resilient, and ready to scale. The role involves leading complex solutions across data centres, remote sites, and hybrid cloud environments while partnering across the organisation to deliver secure, reliable network systems.
This position focuses on shaping the future of infrastructure through automation, cloud networking, and technical leadership. The engineer will strengthen how teams build and operate at scale, ensuring high performance and security across the global environment.
- Design and lead complex network solutions across data centres, remote sites, and hybrid cloud environments, including AWS, GCP, advanced firewall, routing, switching, VPN, and BGP technologies.
- Implement advanced infrastructure as code patterns, including remote state, modules, and workspaces.
- Design automation and infrastructure as code solutions for multi-vendor network platforms, including FortiGate, Aruba, and Juniper.
- Triage, debug, and resolve complex production issues while driving a culture of accountability and operational excellence.
- Act as a technical mentor and coach, providing guidance and feedback that helps engineers grow and deliver their best work.
- Play a critical role in shaping the team’s technical roadmap and engineering direction while fostering a culture of ownership and continuous learning.
- Join the on-call rotation, taking ownership of incident resolution and providing senior-level escalation support for critical outages.
- Maintain the health, performance, and security of global infrastructure across hybrid environments using observability tools such as Datadog.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any suitable combination of education, experience, and training (required).
- At least 5 years of network administration experience with routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, and routing and switching protocols (required).
- At least 3 years of cloud networking experience across AWS, GCP, and hybrid data centre connectivity (required).
- Proven ability to architect, build, and scale complex network infrastructure (required).
- A strong track record of mentoring engineers, leading change and design reviews, and driving high-impact technical decisions across cross-functional teams (required).
- Hands-on experience with Aruba switching and FortiGate firewalls (required).
- Strong understanding of BGP, routing, switching, VPNs, firewalls, and hybrid cloud connectivity (required).
- Proven experience with infrastructure as code, Git-based workflows (GitOps), and advanced scripting in Python and Bash (required).
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog (required).
- Hands-on familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools, including Claude, Codex, and Gemini (required).
- Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills (required).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to remain composed while leading the resolution of critical production issues (required).
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