Senior Network & SecOps Lead – Azure & GCP Hybrid

Claranet Portugal; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Certification resources

Teambuilding programs

Friendly workplace

Job summary

Claranet Portugal seeks an experienced Team Leader to guide a diverse team responsible for designing, securing, and operating complex hybrid and multi-cloud network environments with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

This role blends technical leadership, people management, cloud networking, and security operations to deliver resilient, scalable, and secure solutions across on-premises, Azure, and GCP environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading technical teams in networking, cloud infrastructure, or SecOps.
• Strong expertise in Azure networking and good understanding of GCP networking.
• Solid knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, DNS, routing, and network security.
• Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of Terraform and/or Bicep, ARM, PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Experience with cloud security, incident response, and operational governance.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes networking, preferably AKS.
• Excellent communication, leadership, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Network Engineering and SecOps professionals.
• Provide technical direction for Azure, GCP, on-premises, and hybrid network architectures.
• Oversee Azure networking services, including VNets, NSGs, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, and Private Endpoints.
• Guide secure connectivity between on-premises, Azure, and GCP environments.
• Drive the adoption of Zero Trust, micro-segmentation, automation, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Support complex incidents, troubleshooting, network optimisation, and security investigations.
• Establish engineering standards, operational procedures, documentation, and governance practices.
• Collaborate with Cloud, Security, Platform, Applications, and Service Management teams.
• Support Kubernetes networking, including AKS, ingress, CNI, service mesh, and network policies.

Skills

Team leadership

Networking

Cloud infrastructure

SecOps

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Kubernetes networking

Tools

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

PowerShell

Python

Bash

AKS

Job description

Claranet Portugal seeks an experienced Team Leader to guide a diverse team responsible for designing, securing, and operating complex hybrid and multi-cloud network environments with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

This role blends technical leadership, people management, cloud networking, and security operations to deliver resilient, scalable, and secure solutions across on-premises, Azure, and GCP environments.