Senior Digital DevOps Infrastructure Consultant in Aemstelredamme, Nederland

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.