Infrastructure Consulting Lead

Role Overview: We have Brussels, Belgium location as well along with Amsterdam.

The Senior Consultant participates in architecture, technical strategy, and design of cloud networking solutions.

This role facilitates technical discussions during pre-sales engagements, utilizing knowledge of the services portfolio and broader multi-vendor expertise to advise customers on the most suitable solutions.

The Senior Consultant leads pilots and proofs of concept from a technical standpoint, ensuring that the appropriate success criteria are tested, and works with engineering teams to support new features where required.

For large rollouts, the role supports delivery teams by producing designs and helping define migration strategies. The Senior Consultant acts as the technical owner for the solution delivered, ensuring successful implementation and customer satisfaction.

The role builds trusted relationships with relevant customer stakeholders, takes responsibility for gathering business and technical requirements, translates them into an architecture and technical strategy, evaluates the required consulting effort, and delivers the required outcomes.

In addition to technology expertise, the Senior Consultant understands customer business drivers and can explain and champion the business benefits of proposed solutions.

While supporting customers across Europe, this is a customer-facing role with particular emphasis on the BeNeLux region. The position is in Amsterdam or Brussels to provide effective proximity to key BeNeLux customers, enable in-person workshops and stakeholder engagement, and support timely collaboration with local sales and delivery teams.

Responsibilities and duties

• Support European customer engagements, with a specific focus on BeNeLux customers and opportunities.
• Drive technical discussions during presales 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.
• Monitor and manage technical client relationships and the status of ongoing engagements.
• Build trusted relationships with customer IT stakeholders and business owners.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients and contribute to their digital transformation.
• Develop project deployment strategies for consulting delivery activities.
• Assess and recognize customer business drivers, challenges, constraints, and transformation objectives.
• Articulate service strategies, including refinement, refresh, change, and optimization, within the relevant digital domain.
• 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.
• Apply practical secure-by-design principles across areas such as network segmentation, identity, secrets handling, and threat assessment.
• Collaborate with delivery, engineering, cloud, and security teams to ensure that designs are implementable, supportable, and aligned with customer requirements.

About You

Skill Profile

• 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.
• Minimum of 10 years of related professional experience.

Networks and Related Services

• SDN/NFV concepts.
• 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.
• Experience with cloud networking orchestrators such as Aviatrix.

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.
• AWS networking knowledge, including services such as Route 53 and Direct Connect.
• AWS security knowledge, including services such as WAF, Config, and CloudWatch.
• Solid understanding of the Azure hub-and-spoke model.
• Deep understanding of connectivity, routing, segmentation, and security considerations across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Automation, DevOps, and DevSecOps

• Experience applying DevOps practices to network and infrastructure delivery.
• 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.
• Ability to automate network, cloud, and security configurations using infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management approaches.
• Understanding of integrating security and quality checks into CI/CD pipelines, including source-code and dependency checks, container or image checks, and infrastructure-as-code validation.
• Ability to help design automated delivery pipelines that identify issues before deployment and reduce reliance on manual audit activities.
• Understanding of policy-driven automation and automated compliance controls, without dependence on any single product or tool.
• Familiarity with version control, peer review, testing, change promotion, rollback, and operational validation for automated infrastructure changes.

Infrastructure Security

• Firewalls and next-generation firewalls, web filtering, proxies, IPS/IDS, and SSL VPN.
• Security product knowledge across technologies such as Zscaler, Check Point Security Gateways, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto PA-Series, Juniper SRX, F5 BIG-IP, and Broadcom Edge SWG.
• Familiarity with zero-trust network principles and their application to enterprise segmentation and access control.
• Understanding of identity federation, secrets management, and security controls within network and cloud architectures.
• Ability to incorporate security requirements into architecture, design, automation, and operational processes.

Other Technical Expertise

• Application and Network performance management product knowledge, including Riverbed and Cisco.
• Observability product knowledge including Cisco ThousandEyes, Splunk and Dynatrace.
• Virtualization solutions, including VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM Linux.
• Understanding of containerized environments, including the related networking and security considerations.

Other Skills and Experience

• Fluent in English. Knowledge of Dutch or French is a plus.
• Demonstrated strong technical leadership and matrix team management capabilities in a multinational environment.
• Effective communication with customer senior management.
• Ability to handle complex situations, both internally and in customer-facing engagements.
• Expert-level integration and implementation experience in at least one specific digital domain.
• Advanced-level expertise in one or more digital domains.
• Strong technical skills in telecommunications and IT solutions and services in general.
• University degree in Communications Systems, Computer Science, or an equivalent qualification.
• Minimum of 10 years of related work experience in customer-facing organizations within the ICT industry, including roles working directly with customer IT management.
• Proven track record of shaping and positioning technical security strategies to meet customer needs at senior IT and CxO level.
• Understanding of market trends and the technical and business issues associated with the ICT industry.
• Excellent business and commercial understanding.
• Financial management capabilities, including P&L, TCO, and ROI.