Senior Networking and Cybersecurity Engineer

Company Overview
Cloudist is a cutting-edge cloud provider, delivering innovative infrastructure solutions to MSPs in the Nordics. We're expanding our team and looking for a Senior Networking and Cybersecurity Engineer who can take charge of our cloud network infrastructure, ensuring that it remains modern, scalable, secure, and highly available.
Position Overview
As a Senior Networking and Cybersecurity Engineer, your primary focus will be on designing, implementing, and maintaining robust networking and security solutions for our datacenter environments. You will be a key player in improving the performance, scalability, and security of our cloud services, working with cutting-edge technologies to meet both current and future demands.
Key Responsibilities:
Datacenter Networking Design & Implementation: Architect, deploy, and maintain networking solutions in both the physical and logical layers, ensuring a secure and high-performing environment for our cloud services.
Presales & Customer Engagement: Collaborate with partners and customers to design cloud networking and security solutions tailored to their needs, offering expert guidance in presale engagements.
Infrastructure Modernization & Automation: Lead efforts to modernize and automate our network infrastructure, enhancing scalability, performance, and reliability within our datacenters.
Security Solutions: Implement and manage security measures across our cloud infrastructure, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, and DDoS protection, ensuring compliance with the highest standards of cybersecurity.
Project Leadership: Serve as the technical project lead for networking and security initiatives, driving projects from conception to implementation.

Key Competencies:
Enterprise Networking: Deep knowledge of enterprise network design and architecture, with the ability to adapt traditional networks to cloud-based environments.
Internet Networking: Expertise in internet protocols (BGP, Load Balancing, VLANs, etc.), with hands-on experience in NSX-T, firewall, and routing technologies.
Cybersecurity: Proficiency in implementing cybersecurity solutions including firewalls (FW), intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), identity management (IdP), and DDoS mitigation.
Cloud Infrastructure: Strong understanding of virtualized environments and experience working with VMware and other cloud technologies.
Automation: Ability to collaborate with our software development team to integrate networking and security automation, ensuring seamless operations and a cloud experience to our customers.

Experience & Qualifications:
10+ years of experience in senior-level networking roles, ideally in a datacenter or cloud provider environment.
Substantial hands-on experience with routing protocols (BGP), switching, network virtualization (VMware NSX-T), load balancing, and cybersecurity solutions.
Familiarity with the following products and vendors is a plus:
A10 ADC
Fortinet
Dell PowerSwitch series
VMware NSX-T

Personality & Soft Skills:
A strong passion for continuous learning, with a willingness to evolve and take on new challenges.
High level of energy, self-motivation, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively in our team (seven people currently).
A solution-oriented mindset with a drive to find innovative approaches to complex problems.

Why Join Us?
At Cloudist, we’re inspired by the beauty and responsibility symbolized by the Northern Lights. Just like this natural wonder, we aim to build cloud services that are sustainable, secure, and transparent.
Innovative Environment: Be part of a team that drives modernization, automation, and performance in cutting-edge cloud infrastructure.
Professional Growth: Tackle technical challenges and lead projects that shape the future of cloud networking and security.
Collaborative Culture: Work with a supportive team that values transparency in our delivery — no hidden costs, no lock-ins, just green, sustainable cloud solutions.