Freelance Senior Network Engineer; Huawei - on demand

Overview

Build the network foundations of a European cloud, without corporate theater.

At enum
, we're building our own European cloud platform on our own hardware. Not a thin wrapper around hyperscalers, not "clickops", not a Terraform skin on someone else's platform. We design, operate, and continuously improve the full stack: compute, Kubernetes, storage, and networking.

We're looking for a Senior Huawei Network Engineer to support us sporadically, project-based, on demand. This is not a full-time or part-time role. Think: focused deep work when there's a design decision, rollout, migration, or gnarly incident to solve.

We agree on a minimum project scope and a minimum monthly billing to keep collaboration efficient.

You'll work directly with the founder (Max) and the core engineering team.

• Design and review datacenter network architecture and changes
• Implement and troubleshoot Huawei-based networking in production
• Work on:
• EVPN VXLAN
• VLAN segmentation
• VRF design and multi-tenant isolation
• VRRP
• Routing (static + dynamic)
• BGP (internal and external)
• Switching architecture (leaf/spine, access, redundancy)

Help us make decisions that scale and don't collapse later under entropy.

This is not a "network tickets" gig

We’re not looking for someone to babysit ports or follow runbooks all day.

We need a system thinker who can go from requirements to design to implementation to stable ops.

• Strong hands-on experience with Huawei enterprise/datacenter networking
• Solid understanding of VXLAN EVPN, VLAN, VRF, VRRP, routing, BGP, switching
• Experience in datacenter / ISP-like environments (bonus if you've built multi-tenant networks)
• Clear communication and documentation habits
• Comfortable working independently and delivering results without constant steering
• BGP design patterns
• High availability patterns, failure-domain thinking
• Experience integrating networking with Kubernetes platform needs (ingress, load balancing, IPAM, L2/L3 announcements)
• Familiarity with modern infra stacks (Git Ops, automation mindset)