Senior Network Engineer – Cape Town (must have car & driver’s licence)

About the role

Ambit Connect is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to lead the design and operation of its ISP network in Cape Town. The role is office‑based, full‑time, and requires ownership of core, aggregation, access and wireless architectures, as well as strategic direction for network growth.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture for core, aggregation, access, wireless, peering, transit and customer‑edge environments, defining standards and roadmaps.
• Design, operate and optimise carrier‑grade routing using BGP, OSPF, iBGP/eBGP, route filtering, traffic engineering and MPLS.
• Establish network monitoring, telemetry and capacity reporting, driving proactive optimisation and incident response.
• Define and govern network security architecture, including firewalls, VPNs, DDoS mitigation and secure routing policies.
• Lead major incident resolution, technical escalations and mentor junior engineers.

Required profile

• 10+ years of networking experience, with at least 8 years at senior L3/L4 level.
• Must hold a valid driver’s licence, own a car and be born in South Africa; relocation to Cape Town at own expense if not already based there.
• Willingness to work onsite in the Cape Town CBD office, 8 am‑5 pm, with no remote or hybrid option.

Required skills

• BGP, OSPF, iBGP, eBGP, route filtering, traffic engineering.
• MPLS, VLAN, VXLAN, L2/L3 VPN, QoS, OTN.
• Network monitoring, telemetry, capacity planning.
• Firewalls, edge filtering, VPNs, DDoS mitigation.
• IP address management, IPv6 strategy, routing protocol management.