Networks Senior Engineer /Team Leader

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Our ambition is to unlock the potential of our digital world so that organisations everywhere can innovate and thrive securely.

We aim to achieve this goal by bringing together the world's most talented people and the most powerful technologies, combining them to address our customers' challenges and to build something stronger together.

If you share our vision, join us!

We are looking for a Networks Senior Engineer/Team Leader to join our team in Lisbon.

Your responsibilities include

We are looking for an experienced Team Leader to lead a team responsible for designing, securing, and operating complex hybrid and multi-cloud network environments, with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

This role combines technical leadership, people management, cloud networking, and security operations, with a focus on delivering resilient, scalable, and secure solutions.

Your responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Network Engineering and SecOps professionals.
• Provide technical direction for Azure, GCP, on-premises, and hybrid network architectures.
• Oversee Azure networking services, including VNets, NSGs, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, and Private Endpoints.
• Guide secure connectivity between on-premises, Azure, and GCP environments.
• Drive the adoption of Zero Trust, micro-segmentation, automation, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Support complex incidents, troubleshooting, network optimisation, and security investigations.
• Establish engineering standards, operational procedures, documentation, and governance practices.
• Collaborate with Cloud, Security, Platform, Applications, and Service Management teams.
• Support Kubernetes networking, including AKS, ingress, CNI, service mesh, and network policies.

You must have

• Proven experience leading technical teams in networking, cloud infrastructure, or SecOps.
• Strong expertise in Azure networking and good understanding of GCP networking.
• Solid knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, DNS, routing, and network security.
• Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of Terraform and/or Bicep, ARM, PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Experience with cloud security, incident response, and operational governance.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes networking, preferably AKS.
• Excellent communication, leadership, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.

We value

• Azure Network Engineer Associate
• Azure Security Engineer Associate
• Google Professional Cloud Network Engineer
• Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer
• CKA or CKS
• Terraform Associate
• CCNP Enterprise
• ITIL or equivalent service-management certification

We offer

• Regular professional development;
• Certification paths resources;
• Regular teambuilding programs;
• Friendly workplace.

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