Network Engineer
Role Overview
Designing, implementing, monitoring, securing, and maintaining the organization's network infrastructure to ensure high availability, reliability, performance,
and security of business-critical systems and communications
• Supports digital transformation initiatives, business operations, cybersecurity requirements, and future technology growth by providing stable and scalable
network services across offices, data centres, cloud environments, and remote locations.
• Design, implement, configure, and maintain LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, VPN, and Internet connectivity.
• Troubleshoot and resolve network incidents, outages, and performance issues within agreed service levels
• Participate in IT infrastructure projects, system upgrades, migrations, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Support the Head in providing specifications of IT related projects in order to facilitate the technical evaluation and vendor selection process.
• Monitor and report network availability, utilization, capacity, security events, and SLA performance.
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Implement and maintain network security controls including firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs, NAC, and network segmentation.
• Support cloud networking solutions in Microsoft Azure, AWS, or hybrid environments.
• Support for ISMS frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and best practices.
• Perform vulnerability assessments and coordinate remediation activities.
• Manage data centre network infrastructure and connectivity between corporate, cloud, and offshore/remote locations.
Additional requirements
• Strong knowledge of routing, switching, wireless networking, firewalls, VPNs, cloud networking, and cybersecurity best practices.
• Certified with CISCO, Palo Alto10
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and time‑management skills.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
• Capability to meet business requirements through effective solutions.
• Strong knowledge of routing, switching, wireless networking, firewalls, VPNs, cloud networking, and cybersecurity best practices.
• Strong project management skills .
Key Skills for This Role
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Work location and schedule
- Work location is Abu Dhabi, with offshore visits as required.
- Working hours are 07:00–15:00, five days per week.
Salary and benefits
- Salary is up to AED 12,000 per month.
- Round-trip economy airfare, health insurance, and single-status accommodation are provided.
- Leave cycle is 150/30 for single status or 335/30 for family status; family-status benefits apply after successful probation.
Qualifications and experience
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, network engineering, or a related field is required.
- Requires 5–8 years of enterprise network administration and support experience.
- Strong knowledge of routing, switching, wireless networking, firewalls, VPNs, cloud networking, and cybersecurity best practices is required.
- Cisco certification is requested; CCNA, CCNP, Fortinet NSE, Palo Alto, Azure Network Engineer Associate, or equivalent certifications are listed as preferred.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, problem-solving, communication, teamwork, time-management, and project-management skills are requested.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, configure, and maintain LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, VPN, and internet connectivity.
- Monitor, secure, and maintain network infrastructure across offices, data centres, cloud environments, and remote locations.
- Resolve network incidents, outages, and performance issues within service levels; conduct root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Participate in infrastructure projects, upgrades, migrations, and digital transformation initiatives; support project specifications and vendor evaluation.
- Monitor and report availability, utilization, capacity, security events, and SLA performance.
- Maintain firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs, NAC, network segmentation, and cloud networking in Azure, AWS, or hybrid environments.
- Support ISMS compliance, perform vulnerability assessments, coordinate remediation, and manage connectivity across corporate, cloud, and offshore locations.
Employment conditions
Probation period is six months.
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