Senior Networks and Systems Engineer

iTalent PLUS • Malta, MT

7h

About The Position

Our client is seeking a Senior Networks and Systems Engineer to join their growing team. This role is responsible for ensuring the organisation’s IT infrastructure is effectively managed, supporting both daily operations and long-term business growth. The successful candidate will play a key role in managing and optimising network environments and systems, maintaining high service standards, safeguarding data integrity, and enabling the organisation to adapt to evolving technological demands.

Requirements

• Minimum of four years’ experience in a similar engineering or infrastructure role.
• Strong command of the English language, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong hands-on experience with the Fortinet ecosystem, including firewalling and routing, FortiEMS, IPsec VPNs, FortiClient VPN, ACLs, and high availability configurations.
• Solid experience with Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching and VLAN design.
• Administration of Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and Azure environments.
• Experience with virtualisation and cloud platforms such as VMware and AWS.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise hardware (such as Dell and HP).
• Experience with backup solutions like Veeam and Backblaze.
• Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems and the TCP/IP networking stack.

Nice To Haves

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Configuring, maintaining, and managing firewalls, switches, servers, and other network and security appliances.
• Administer and support virtualised and cloud-based infrastructure environments.
• Monitoring, testing, and validating backup systems to ensure data resilience and performance.
• Performing operating system updates, patching, and security hardening in line with best practices.
• Troubleshooting infrastructure and network issues using a structured and analytical approach.
• Contribute to infrastructure capacity planning to support business growth and ensure high availability of services.
• Working closely with service integrators to track incident resolution.
• Coordinate with vendors, stakeholders, and service providers across design, deployment, integration, and monitoring phases.
• Adapting plans and proposing alternative technical strategies as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior