Sr. Consultant - Cloud Solutions

Orange; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global opportunities

Flexible work environment

Professional development

Career growth

Culture & well-being

Referral programs

Job summary

Orange is seeking a highly experienced Senior Expert to take end-to-end ownership of the Evolution Platform VNE Service, ensuring a highly available, scalable, automated, and secure platform. You will drive architecture, deployment, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement in a DevOps/SRE context.

Responsibilities include defining platform standards, implementing IaC, building reusable automation, and delivering CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with architecture, security, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Network/Platform Eng, DevOps, or cloud infra.
• 5+ years in DevOps, automation and platform engineering, preferably telecom or cloud.
• 5+ years with VNE, VNF/VNFaaS, SDN/NFV or virtualized network services.

Responsibilities

• Own Evolution Platform VNE service architecture, deployment, lifecycle, and performance.
• Define platform standards, engineering practices and operational processes.
• Ensure scalability, security, and resilience of the VNE environment.
• Develop reusable automation frameworks, APIs, and tooling.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines for VNE services and components.
• Implement IaC using Terraform, Ansible, Python or equivalent.
• Collaborate across architecture, development, operations, security and infra teams.
• Lead incident and change management from a technical perspective.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

CI/CD pipelines

Automation frameworks

IaC (Terraform/Ansible)

Python scripting

REST APIs

Kubernetes networking

VNE/VNF/SDN/NFV

Network engineering

Troubleshooting

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

About us

Join us at Orange Business!

We are a network and digital integrator that understands the entire value chain of the digital world, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that shape their business.

Every day, you will collaborate with a team dedicated to providing consistent, sustainable global solutions, no matter where our customers operate. With over 30,000 employees across Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, we offer a dynamic environment to develop and perfect your skills in a field filled with exciting challenges and opportunities.

About the role

Job Title

Sr. Consultant - Cloud Solutions

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Expert to take end-to-end technical ownership of the Evolution Platform VNE (Virtual Network Edge) Service, ensuring a highly available, scalable, automated, and secure platform who has evolved into a DevOps/SRE/Automation expert.

Relevant Experience

• 8+ years of experience in Network Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure or related technology domains.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, automation and platform engineering, preferably within telecom, networking, NaaS, SDN/NFV or cloud infrastructure environments.
• 5+ years of experience with Virtual Network Edge (VNE), VNF/VNFaaS, SDN/NFV or virtualized network services.

About you

Key Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end technical ownership of the Evolution Platform VNE Service, including architecture, deployment, lifecycle management, availability, performance, and continuous improvement.
• Define and implement platform standards, engineering practices, and operational processes.
• Ensure scalability, reliability, security, and resilience of the VNE environment.
• Troubleshoot complex platform and production issues and lead root-cause analysis and permanent remediation.
• Develop reusable automation frameworks, scripts, APIs, and tooling.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for VNE services and platform components.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Python or equivalent.
• Design and implement end-to-end automation for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, configuration, testing, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with architecture, development, operations, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Evaluate new technologies and identify opportunities to improve the VNE service.
• Ensure high availability and reliability of the VNE service through proactive monitoring, capacity management, performance optimization, and resilience engineering.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management from a technical perspective.
• Establish automated health checks, alerting, remediation, and recovery mechanisms.
• Drive reduction of MTTR and operational toil through automation.
• Act as the technical SME and escalation point for VNE-related platform and automation challenges.
• Lead technical initiatives from concept through implementation and operational handover.

Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills

• Knowledge of SDN/NFV, Kubernetes networking, service mesh, or network orchestration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Virtual Network Edge (VNE), VNF/VNFaaS, SDN and NFV concepts and technologies.
• Experience in deploying, configuring, operating and troubleshooting virtual network functions such as Firewall, Router, SD-WAN, Cloud Networking and SSE/SASE.
• Understanding of VNE lifecycle management - provisioning, configuration, modification, upgrade, patching, scaling, monitoring and decommissioning.
• Strong understanding of VNF service chaining and interconnection with Internet, WAN/MPLS and public/private cloud.
• Experience working with multi-vendor network/security functions and integrating vendor releases into a common platform.
• Managed multi-vendor SD-WAN/SASE/firewall environments.
• Experience working with multi-vendor network and security technologies, preferably including Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Versa, VeloCloud, HPE Aruba, Zscaler, Netskope, Aviatrix or equivalent.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across VNE ¿ VNF ¿ virtual infrastructure ¿ network connectivity ¿ cloud/service layer.
• Strong knowledge of IP networking, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NAT, routing and switching.
• Hands-on knowledge of BGP, OSPF, VRF, MPLS/IP-VPN, VLAN/VXLAN and IPsec.
• Strong understanding of VPN connectivity and network segmentation.
• Excellent Python scripting/programming skills.
• Experience with REST APIs, JSON/YAML and API-driven automation.
• Experience automating network configuration using Ansible/Terraform or equivalent.
• Strong experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, network services and platform components.
• Experience designing monitoring and observability for network and virtualized services.
• Strong production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis capabilities.
• Experience reducing MTTR, operational toil and manual intervention.
• Proven experience operating business-critical production services in a 24×7 environment.
• Strong knowledge of observability and service assurance using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch and equivalent platforms.
• Good understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and cloud-native architectures, with practical experience in containerized environments preferred.

You bring rigor, passion for challenges, and determination. You seek the opportunity to expand your expertise, achieve your goals, and thrive.

What we offer

Global Opportunities: Work in multi-national teams with opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and customers from all over the world.Flexible Work Environment: Flexible working hours and possibility to combine work from office and home (hybrid ways of working).Professional Development: training programs and upskilling/re-skilling opportunities.Career Growth: Internal growth and mobility opportunities within Orange.Caring and Daring Culture: Health and well-being programs and benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives, CSR and employee connect events.Reward Programs: Employee Referral Program, Change Maker Awards.

Only your skills matter

Regardless of your age, gender identity, race, ethnic origin, religion/belief, sexual orientation, marital status, neuroatypia, disability, veteran status or appearance, we encourage diversity within our teams because it is a strength for the collective and a vector of innovation. Orange Group is a disabled-friendly company and equal opportunity employer: don't hesitate to tell us about your specific needs.