Senior Network & Platform Engineer

Gaming1

Liege, Belgium

YOUR ROLE

You will sit at the intersection of networking and platform engineering, embedded in our Platform Engineering Area. You will own both the network fabric and the platform primitives that sit on top of it — treating infrastructure as code, building self-service capabilities with guardrails, and making sure Product Engineers can ship without infrastructure becoming a bottleneck.

What You'll Do

Own network platform capabilities as code — Design, deploy, and maintain Fortinet-based network fabric (FortiGate, FortiSwitch, SD-WAN, BGP, IPsec) using Terraform, Ansible, and Git-based workflows.
Build self-service capabilities with guardrails — Provide Product Engineers with safe, scoped network primitives they can consume without filing a ticket.
Keep it secure by default — Embed cybersecurity standards into IaC pipelines; partner with Security on threat modeling and compliance.
Make it observable — Implement and maintain telemetry (Prometheus, Grafana) so reliability is measurable, not assumed.
Continuously improve — Evaluate new tooling, eliminate friction, and evolve the platform alongside peers.
Elevate the team — Share expertise; raise the bar on automation, security, and reliability standards.

YOUR PROFILE

7+ years of professional experience in network engineering, with at least 2 years in a platform or IaC-oriented role
Bachelor's or master's in computer science, or equivalent experience
Fortinet NSE 4 certification (or equivalent practical experience) — NSE 7 preferred
Expert-level network engineering with deep Fortinet expertise (FortiGate, FortiSwitch); strong WAN/SD-WAN, BGP, IPsec, L2/L3 switching
Hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible for network and systems automation
Python and/or Go scripting for network automation and tooling
Solid grasp of CI/CD and GitOps (Git, GitLab CI, ArgoCD)
Hands-on experience with Prometheus and Grafana
Working knowledge of cybersecurity standards and secure-configuration practices
Strong sense of when to work autonomously and when to collaborate
These are not required, but each one moves a candidate up the shortlist:
Cloudflare — DNS, WAF, anti-DDoS, Magic Transit, Zero Trust / SASE (strong plus)
Aruba switching experience
Cloud-native networking — Kubernetes, Cilium, eBPF, Envoy Gateway
Datadog for observability
VMware, Nutanix, or HPE Alletra for compute/storage
Software development background beyond scripting (Python, Go for tooling)