SDN Private Cloud Engineer (SME) 100% (f/m/d)

Job summary

Design, engineer, and operate enterprise-grade virtualized x86 infrastructure and secure cloud environments, with a focus on VMware platforms and software-defined networking. The role includes implementing network segmentation and security policies, maintaining highly available services and handling L2/L3 incidents, leading data center migrations and lifecycle upgrades, and automating deployments through APIs, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code. It also supports capacity planning, performance monitoring, and a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• At least five years of hands-on experience as a senior virtualization engineer in mission-critical environments.
• Expertise in VMware vSphere, including ESXi, vCenter Server, and platform lifecycle management.
• Strong knowledge of SDN, overlay networks, distributed firewalling, and centralized policy enforcement.
• Strong data center networking knowledge, including IPv4/IPv6, BGP, Tier-0/Tier-1 gateways, transport nodes, and logical-to-physical network integration.
• Experience with VMware NSX-T is highly advantageous.
• Familiarity with VMware AVI, including application delivery, traffic steering, L7 load balancing, WAF integration, or Kubernetes ingress control, is beneficial.
• Experience deploying and managing SDDC frameworks; VMware Cloud Foundation is preferred.
• Experience automating infrastructure with PowerShell, Python, Terraform, or Ansible, including API-based interactions with NSX Manager or AVI Controller.
• Working knowledge of SAN/NAS, Fibre Channel, and NFS/CIFS.
• Exposure to Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG/IE) or VKS and integration with SDN-backed networking and security policies.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented, with the ability to own complex initiatives with limited supervision.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for collaboration in an international environment.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Willingness to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and document enterprise-grade virtualized x86 infrastructure.
• Develop network architecture using micro-segmentation, logical switching and routing, distributed firewalls, and intent-based policies.
• Operate virtualization and network service platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, fault remediation, and L2/L3 incident support.
• Roll out, monitor, and optimize virtualized infrastructure and software-defined networking services.
• Lead data center migrations, technology refreshes, and lifecycle upgrades.
• Advance infrastructure automation, API-driven configuration, declarative policies, and GitOps workflows.
• Design operational procedures that support compliance, recoverability, and transparency.
• Manage compute and network capacity and performance using telemetry and flow analytics.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and resolve critical infrastructure incidents.

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