Network Engineer

Project Description:

The IT Department is seeking a Network Engineer with 2+ years of experience to maintain and evolve the network across our offices, data centres and public clouds. The team is responsible for network services across all Luxoft locations (45+) and Public Clouds (mainly Azure, but also have AWS and GCP).

A key focus of this role is network automation and the practical use of AI: we are moving from manual operations to an automated, data-driven model.

Responsibilities:

• Operate and maintain the stability and performance of network infrastructure within the EU (offices, DCs, Azure).
• Design and build automation for routine network operations (config generation, compliance checks, provisioning) using Python, Ansible and Terraform.
• Develop and integrate AI automation to the existing solution based on Open Hands.
• Maintain NetBox as the single source of truth: validate data, improve data quality and automate synchronisation with monitoring and CMDB.
• Keep monitoring up-to-date, reduce alert noise and propose improvements (incl. anomaly detection / AIOps approaches).
• Keep Confluence documentation accurate; automate its generation from NetBox and IaC where possible.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise or ISP networks.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, routing and switching; working knowledge of BGP and OSPF.
• Hands-on experience with at least one NGFW platform (Palo Alto Networks, Cisco Secure Firewall, FortiGate or similar): Security policies and NAT, Site-to-Site IPSec and remote access VPN
• Basic experience with public cloud networking (Azure or AWS): VNet/VPC, subnets, security groups, VPN gateways.
• Basic scripting and automation skills: Python or Ansible for routine network tasks, Familiarity with Git
• Active use of AI tools in daily work (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude or similar) for scripting, troubleshooting or documentation, and strong interest in AI-driven automation.
• Experience with monitoring systems (Zabbix, PRTG, LibreNMS or similar).
• CCNA or equivalent knowledge.

Nice to have

• Palo Alto Panorama, HA configuration
• Terraform or other IaC tools
• NetBox or another CMDB/IPAM
• Experience building scripts or small tools that use LLM APIs
• CCNP or equivalent

Languages:

• English: C1 Advanced