Group Connectivity Expert

About the role

stow, a global market leader in industrial storage solutions headquartered in Belgium, is looking for a Group Connectivity Expert in its Global IT team. The role designs and builds the full network and security environment at group level, aiming to secure, standardize, combine and optimize the company's network so that availability stays above 99.8% per year. You act as the lead architect for your domain within group and local project workgroups.

Key responsibilities

• Advise on building high-available, secure and performant networks and turn complex business problems into technical solutions.
• Act as the single point of contact for internal and external inquiries in your area of expertise.
• Design resilient, enterprise-grade, secure-by-design solutions and implement them hands-on, often with a partner or in a joint team.
• Support the roadmap toward compliance with frameworks such as ISO27001, NIS2 and CRA.
• Optimize SD-LAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, SASE, identity providers, application delivery and firewalls, and plan the removal of decentralized assets to reduce the IT footprint.
• Ensure policies, standards and guidelines are understood and applied, and collaborate with Network, Workplace, Identity & Security experts.
• Follow up on technology trends, occasionally assist L2 support teams on incidents, and provide third-line support in line with SLAs.
• Help define the IT roadmap and integrate new acquisitions.

Required profile

• Extensive knowledge of switching, routing and next-generation firewalls, and extensive experience with SASE platforms.
• Strong knowledge of WLAN, preferably in industrial environments, and experience with dynamic routing protocols such as BGP.
• Ability to draw network flow diagrams and schemes, and to work in an international, multi-cultural environment with staff in different time zones.
• English spoken and written (other languages a plus); travel of about 10-20% may be needed.
• Self-motivated, stress-resistant, organized and able to work independently and in teams.

Required skills

• Switching, routing and next-generation firewalls
• SASE platforms
• WLAN and dynamic routing (e.g. BGP)
• Application delivery appliances, load balancing, VoIP, QoS and overlay networks (a plus)