Senior Network Consultant

Vacancy: Senior Network Consultant

About the Organization

This organization plays a key role in shaping and implementing Belgium’s international policy. It defines the main lines of foreign relations and represents Belgium’s positions both nationally and internationally.

Through active diplomacy, it promotes and protects the interests of Belgium and its citizens worldwide, contributing to a safe, just, and sustainable global environment based on shared values, human rights, and international law.

Employees work not only from the headquarters in Brussels but also from more than 120 diplomatic posts across the globe (embassies and consulates). This international presence makes the organization unique and offers staff a wide range of diverse and stimulating challenges.

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Within this context, the ICT Directorate is responsible for all IT and telecommunications support required to fulfill the organization’s mission. This includes infrastructure, software, and IT security. The ICT department is a dynamic and innovative environment that embraces challenges to deliver modern and secure applications and services to both internal users and Belgian citizens.

Your Role as Senior Network Consultant

As a Senior Network Consultant, you act as a trusted advisor, providing technical guidance and strategic direction in the areas of network infrastructure and network security.

Main Responsibilities

• Serve as an expert advisor for ad-hoc technical questions related to general networking and network security.
• Analyze, design, and support solutions related to network infrastructure, technologies, applications, management, and security.

This includes:

• Infrastructure: network environments based on routers, switches, interconnectivity, remote access, secure VPN, SASE solutions, etc.
• Applications: email, management tools, proxies, DNS, DHCP, and related systems.
• Management: monitoring tools, capacity management, configuration, SLA follow-up, etc.
• Security: firewalls, proxies, antivirus, IDS, VPN, threat analysis, and more.
• Continuously evaluate the current network landscape against new technologies and solutions.
• Identify improvement opportunities and optimization paths within the existing network environment.
• Oversee the broader context of network security in both current and future environments, aligning with modern cybersecurity practices.
• Organize workshops to define new visions and strategies for future network architectures and operations.

Skill / Expertise

Cisco

Fortinet

Juniper

Palo Alto

Network Consultancy

Network Architecture

Network Security

Languages

• Dutch or French: Native proficiency
• English: Active working knowledge

2 days working from home per week