Sr. Consultant Cloud Solutions

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We are a network and digital integrator that understands the entire value chain of the digital world freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that shape their business.

Every day you will collaborate with a team dedicated to providing consistent sustainable global solutions no matter where our customers operate. With over 30000 employees across Asia the Americas Africa and Europe we offer a dynamic environment to develop and perfect your skills in a field filled with exciting challenges and opportunities.

Sr. Consultant - Cloud Solutions

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Expert to take end-to-end technical ownership of the Evolution Platform VNE (Virtual Network Edge) Service ensuring a highly available scalable automated and secure platform who has evolved into a DevOps/SRE/Automation expert.

• 8 years of experience in Network Engineering Platform Engineering DevOps Cloud Infrastructure or related technology domains.
• 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps automation and platform engineering preferably within telecom networking NaaS SDN/NFV or cloud infrastructure environments.
• 5 years of experience with Virtual Network Edge (VNE) VNF/VNFaaS SDN/NFV or virtualized network services.

Key Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end technical ownership of the Evolution Platform VNE Service including architecture deployment lifecycle management availability performance and continuous improvement.
• Define and implement platform standards engineering practices and operational processes.
• Ensure scalability reliability security and resilience of the VNE environment.
• Troubleshoot complex platform and production issues and lead root-cause analysis and permanent remediation.
• Develop reusable automation frameworks scripts APIs and tooling.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for VNE services and platform components.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using technologies such as Terraform Ansible Python or equivalent.
• Design and implement end-to-end automation for infrastructure provisioning application deployment configuration testing monitoring and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with architecture development operations security and infrastructure teams.
• Evaluate new technologies and identify opportunities to improve the VNE service.
• Ensure high availability and reliability of the VNE service through proactive monitoring capacity management performance optimization and resilience engineering.
• Lead incident problem and change management from a technical perspective.
• Establish automated health checks alerting remediation and recovery mechanisms.
• Drive reduction of MTTR and operational toil through automation.
• Act as the technical SME and escalation point for VNE-related platform and automation challenges.
• Lead technical initiatives from concept through implementation and operational handover.

Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills

• Knowledge of SDN/NFV Kubernetes networking service mesh or network orchestration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Virtual Network Edge (VNE) VNF/VNFaaS SDN and NFV concepts and technologies.
• Experience in deploying configuring operating and troubleshooting virtual network functions such as Firewall Router SD-WAN Cloud Networking and SSE/SASE.
• Understanding of VNE lifecycle management provisioning configuration modification upgrade patching scaling monitoring and decommissioning.
• Strong understanding of VNF service chaining and interconnection with Internet WAN/MPLS and public/private cloud.
• Experience working with multi-vendor network/security functions and integrating vendor releases into a common platform.
• Managed multi-vendor SD-WAN/SASE/firewall environments.
• Experience working with multi-vendor network and security technologies preferably including Cisco Fortinet Palo Alto Versa VeloCloud HPE Aruba Zscaler Netskope Aviatrix or equivalent.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across VNE VNF virtual infrastructure network connectivity cloud/service layer.
• Strong knowledge of IP networking TCP/IP DNS DHCP NAT routing and switching.
• Hands-on knowledge of BGP OSPF VRF MPLS/IP-VPN VLAN/VXLAN and IPsec.
• Strong understanding of VPN connectivity and network segmentation.
• Excellent Python scripting/programming skills.
• Experience with REST APIs JSON/YAML and API-driven automation.
• Experience automating network configuration using Ansible/Terraform or equivalent.
• Strong experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure network services and platform components.
• Experience designing monitoring and observability for network and virtualized services.
• Strong production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis capabilities.
• Experience reducing MTTR operational toil and manual intervention.
• Proven experience operating business-critical production services in a 247 environment.
• Strong knowledge of observability and service assurance using tools such as Prometheus Grafana ELK/OpenSearch and equivalent platforms.
• Good understanding of Docker Kubernetes Helm and cloud-native architectures with practical experience in containerized environments preferred.

You bring rigor passion for challenges and determination. You seek the opportunity to expand your expertise achieve your goals and thrive.

Global Opportunities: Work in multi-national teams with opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and customers from all over the world.
Flexible Work Environment: Flexible working hours and possibility to combine work from office and home (hybrid ways of working).
Professional Development: training programs and upskilling/re-skilling opportunities.
Career Growth: Internal growth and mobility opportunities within Orange.
Caring and Daring Culture: Health and well-being programs and benefits diversity & inclusion initiatives CSR and employee connect events.
Reward Programs: Employee Referral Program Change Maker Awards.