Network Engineer, Core Infrastructure & Data Center Automation

Kraken; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 639,000 - 879,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking a Network Engineer to join the Core Infrastructure Engineering team. You will design, secure, operate, and automate the company’s data-center and network fabric on a global crypto platform.

This role emphasizes hands-on build and security, with duties spanning data centers, network access controls, incident response, and tooling development to reduce toil and scale the team. Candidates should bring experience with firewalls (PAN-OS preferred), switching and routing, cloud

Qualifications

• 2+ years of network engineering with a security-minded approach.
• Hands-on with Palo Alto firewalls (PAN-OS) a huge plus.
• Hands-on data-center / physical infrastructure work (racking, cabling, power).
• Working knowledge of switching and routing; exposure to cloud networking.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and defend a zero-trust network with strong security features.
• Design, build, and operate data-center fabrics and connectivity.
• Serve as first responder to infrastructure requests and incidents to maximize uptime.
• Develop tooling and IaC to automate and scale the team’s work.

Skills

Network engineering

Palo Alto firewalls

Data-center hardware

Switching

Routing

Cloud networking

Infra as code

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PAN-OS

Job description

Kraken is seeking a Network Engineer to join the Core Infrastructure Engineering team. You will design, secure, operate, and automate the company’s data-center and network fabric on a global crypto platform.

This role emphasizes hands-on build and security, with duties spanning data centers, network access controls, incident response, and tooling development to reduce toil and scale the team. Candidates should bring experience with firewalls (PAN-OS preferred), switching and routing, cloud