Network Security Engineer

Zoomcar; Frankfurt; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Zoomcar is looking for a Senior Network Security Engineer to work in Frankfurt or Sophia Antipolis. This role involves building and scaling SASE architecture, maintaining network operations, and contributing to incident resolution.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in networking, network security, and Linux environments. Successful applicants should be fluent in English, with business-level proficiency in the local language being highly desirable.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of experience in Networking.
• 8+ years of experience in Network Security.
• 5+ years of experience in Linux and Infrastructure.

Aufgaben

• Maintain network architectures across datacenter environments.
• Build and optimize network monitoring and observability systems.
• Develop automation to detect and mitigate network events.
• Perform root cause analysis and drive issues to resolution.
• Maintain documentation and operational consistency.
• Contribute to technical discussions and capacity planning.
• Support internal teams as a top‑tier escalation point for production issues.

Kenntnisse

L2 switching

IP routing

BGP

OSPF

MPLS

Fortinet products

Linux administration

Jobbeschreibung

Office based in our Sophia Antipolis (Valbonne, France) office 4 days per week or Kelsterbach (Frankfurt- Germany).

Senior Network Security Engineer

About the Role

We're seeking an experienced network security engineer to build, operate, and scale our SASE architecture, encompassing both logical and physical infrastructure managed through Infrastructure as Code leveraging both Fortinet products and Linux (OpenStack) systems. You'll work across network architecture, security operations, and automation‑designing solutions, driving incident resolution, and implementing systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.

This role includes participation in a 24x7 NOC on‑call rotation and requires some staffed weekend coverage.

What You'll Do

• Maintain network architectures across datacenter environments (logical & physical)
• Build and optimize network monitoring and observability systems
• Develop automation to detect, mitigate, and remediate network events and solve problems
• Perform root cause analysis and drive issues to resolution
• Maintain documentation and operational consistency across the infrastructure
• Contribute to technical discussions and long‑range capacity planning
• Provide support to internal teams as a top‑tier escalation point for all production issues

What You Bring

Networking (8+ years)

• Expert‑level hands‑on experience with L2 switching, IP routing, and protocols (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRRP, STP, GRE, IPsec, SNMP)
• Large‑scale BGP experience: public ASNs, peering, route arbitration, IRRs

Network Security (8+ years)

• Access control, threat management (vulnerabilities, malware, APTs, botnets)
• SSL inspection, content categorization, security/risk frameworks
• Fortinet product experience strongly preferred

Linux & Infrastructure (5+ years)

• Administration of RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu
• Web servers, SQL databases, LDAP, etc.
• OpenStack experience a plus (RHOSP/RHOSO preferred)

General

• Strong troubleshooting instincts and documentation habits
• Comfortable working independently in a ticket queue environment
• Clear communicator who can context‑switch between deep technical work and stakeholder updates

Nice to Have

• Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Infrastructure‑as‑code tools (Terraform, Ansible)
• Load balancing and DDoS mitigation at scale
• Certifications: NSE7/8, CCIE R&S, RHCSA/RHCE

Fluency in English essential + business level of local language highly desirable.

Must be prepared to work 1 weekend day and oncall infrequently.