Azure Cloud Networking Engineer — Hybrid & Security Focus

Planet; Galway; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

On-call rotation

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Planet is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to own Azure networking and hybrid connectivity, ensuring secure, highly available cloud services. You will design hub-and-spoke architectures, manage ExpressRoute, VPNs, and DNS, and lead IaC deployments with Terraform.

You will work across security, platform engineering, and enterprise network teams to resolve complex issues, improve performance, and maintain thorough documentation in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience operating Microsoft Azure infrastructure, with advanced expertise in Azure networking.
• Deep knowledge of TCP/IP, IPv4 addressing and subnetting, DNS, DHCP, NAT, routing, BGP, VPNs, proxies, load balancing, TLS, and security principles.
• Experience with Azure Virtual Network, peering, routing, NSGs, Azure Firewall, Private Link, Private DNS, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Front Door, and Network Watcher.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and improve highly available Azure and hybrid cloud network services.
• Design and support Azure hub-and-spoke and Virtual WAN architectures, virtual networks, subnets, peering, and related services.
• Manage network security controls including NSGs, Azure Firewall, Web Application Firewall, DDoS Protection, segmentation, and ingress/egress controls.
• Operate hybrid connectivity using ExpressRoute, site-to-site and point-to-site VPNs, BGP, and on-prem integration.
• Support Azure DNS, Private DNS, DNS forwarding and resolution across hybrid environments, and application delivery through Load Balancer and Application Gateway.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform with peer reviews and controlled deployments.
• Monitor network health, flow, latency, availability, capacity, and security signals with Azure Monitor and Network Watcher.
• Troubleshoot end-to-end connectivity and performance across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
• Lead or support incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, maintenance, and service restoration.
• Collaborate with security, platform engineering, application, and enterprise network teams to deliver secure connectivity.
• Maintain network documentation, diagrams, operational procedures, standards, and runbooks, and contribute to disaster recovery planning.

Skills

Azure networking

TCP/IP

DNS

DHCP

ExpressRoute

Network security

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

Incident response

Documentation

Tools

Azure CLI

Azure Monitor

Network Watcher

Job description

Planet is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to own Azure networking and hybrid connectivity, ensuring secure, highly available cloud services. You will design hub-and-spoke architectures, manage ExpressRoute, VPNs, and DNS, and lead IaC deployments with Terraform.

You will work across security, platform engineering, and enterprise network teams to resolve complex issues, improve performance, and maintain thorough documentation in a regulated environment.