Senior SDN & SDS Network Engineer

Tangent International; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Tangent International is seeking an experienced SDN & SDS Network/Storage Engineer to manage and operate software-defined networking, enterprise networking and software-defined storage infrastructure supporting business-critical BSS applications.

The role requires strong hands-on experience across SDN, enterprise LAN/WAN, network security and SDS technologies, ideally within a telecoms or similarly complex enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of IT network and storage administration experience.
• Strong SDN knowledge with Cisco ACI, NSX‑T or equivalent.
• Enterprise networking with Cisco/Juniper/Arista/HP equipment.
• Experience with Ceph, ScaleIO/PowerFlex or equivalent SDS.
• Solid understanding of VLANs, BGP and OSPF.
• Security knowledge covering firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs and segmentation.
• Storage protocols including FC, iSCSI, NFS and S3.
• Strong troubleshooting across network and storage infra.
• Good written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Administer SDN environments including Cisco ACI, VMware NSX‑T, OpenDaylight or equivalent platforms.
• Manage enterprise LAN switching and WAN routing infrastructure.
• Configure and support firewalls including Palo Alto, Fortinet and Juniper.
• Administer load‑balancing technologies including F5 and Nginx.
• Manage SDS platforms including Ceph, ScaleIO/PowerFlex or equivalent.
• Configure VLANs, BGP, OSPF and network segmentation.
• Manage firewall policies, ACLs, NAT and VPN configurations.
• Monitor network bandwidth, latency, packet loss, availability, capacity and storage I/O.
• Troubleshoot L2 network and storage incidents.
• Perform network and storage capacity planning.
• Support disaster recovery and failover testing.
• Maintain network topology diagrams and storage documentation.
• Coordinate complex incident resolution and firmware upgrades with L3 teams and vendors.
• Execute infrastructure changes in accordance with Change Management processes.
• Support OpenStack networking and storage components including Neutron, Cinder and Manila.
• Use Ansible for network configuration and storage provisioning automation.

Skills

SDN knowledge

Cisco ACI

VMware NSX-T

Network security

Ceph SDS

BGP/OSPF

Troubleshooting

English communication

Tools

Ansible

OpenStack Neutron

Cinder

Manila

Job description

Tangent International is seeking an experienced SDN & SDS Network/Storage Engineer to manage and operate software-defined networking, enterprise networking and software-defined storage infrastructure supporting business-critical BSS applications.

The role requires strong hands-on experience across SDN, enterprise LAN/WAN, network security and SDS technologies, ideally within a telecoms or similarly complex enterprise environment.