Network Engineer

Gaming1

Liège, Belgium

The Network Engineer will be primarily responsible for designing, managing, and maintaining our network infrastructure and ensuring high availability, security, and performance. This role is also critical in building and maintaining our internal Developer Platform, which supports the infrastructure needs of our organization.

YOUR ROLE

At GAMING1, Network and System Engineers act as Platform Engineers within the IT Ops Delivery Platform cluster, providing robust, secure, observable, resilient, and self-service technical capabilities for seamless software delivery.

Manage the capabilities related to Delivery Platform capabilities threating them as Infrastructure-as-Code;
Ensure the security of Delivery Platform capabilities;
Continuous improvement and enhancement of Delivery Platform capabilities;
Follow innovations and grow personal knowledge;
Collaboration and communication within the team and with other teams.

YOUR PROFILE

Bachelor or master’s in computer science or equivalent skills acquired through experience;
Minimum of 5 years’ professional experience in a similar technology environment;
Fortinet NSE certification or similar is a real asset;
Network & Automation Mindset:
- Strong network engineering background with a Fortinet focus (FortiGate, FortiSwitch) and familiarity with WAN protocols (BGP, IPsec);
- Fortinet NSE 4 certification (minimum) or equivalent practical experience;
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code principles, using tools such as Ansible and Terraform for network and systems automation;
- Python scripting (or equivalent) to automate tasks across network and system layers.
Security-First Approach:
- Knowledge of cybersecurity standards and procedures, ensuring secure configuration of networks and systems;
- Familiarity with Cloudflare (DNS management, WAF, anti-DDoS, Magic Transit) is a plus for broader security coverage.
DevOps, Platform Engineering & Observability:
- Good understanding of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE practices, with a focus on automation, resiliency, and scalability;
- Knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools (Git, pipelines) for continuous integration and deployment;
- Experience administering observability and security tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Tenable, Elastic Security) to ensure platform reliability and performance.
Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:
- Ability to combine technical expertise with an operational and proactive mindset, always seeking to automate and improve;
- Thrive as part of a close-knit team, making joint decisions to deliver the best outcomes for the Developer Platform customers;
- Strong sense of when to work autonomously and when to collaborate to achieve optimal results.
Additional Pluses:
- Kubernetes experience for container orchestration;
- Software coding skills in .NET;
- PostgreSQL administration;
- RabbitMQ management.