Network Engineer

Role Purpose

Operate and support the entity's network and connectivity services, including local and wide-area networks, routing, switching, wireless, firewalls and secure connectivity. The role provides onsite coordination for physical dependencies, service providers and critical network incidents.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer LAN, WAN, routing, switching, wireless, VPN and network-security components within the approved scope.

• Monitor network health, capacity and availability and respond to alerts, incidents and performance degradation.

• Troubleshoot connectivity across offices, data centres, hosted environments and approved external services.

• Coordinate approved changes with the entity, telecom providers, TDRA and other relevant parties.

• Maintain network diagrams, IP plans, configuration baselines, inventories, backups and operational runbooks.

• Support firewall-rule, segmentation and secure-connectivity activities in coordination with cybersecurity.

• Contribute to resilience, capacity, failover and disaster-recovery testing.

• Participate in agreed on-call coverage for critical network incidents.

• Requirements

Minimum Experience and Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of enterprise network engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of routing, switching, TCP/IP, wireless, VPN, firewalls and network monitoring.
• CCNP or equivalent professional-level certification preferred; CCIE is an advantage.
• Relevant Fortinet, Palo Alto or equivalent security-platform experience preferred.
• Strong incident troubleshooting and technical documentation capability.

Preferred Profile

• Previous experience supporting UAE government or multi-site environments.
• Working knowledge of TDRA connectivity, hosting and approval processes.
• Experience coordinating with telecom providers and federal/shared infrastructure services.

Expected Contribution

• Connectivity incidents are restored and escalated within the confirmed service targets.
• Configurations, diagrams and network inventories remain current and recoverable.
• Changes are implemented with approved plans, validation and rollback controls.
• Capacity and resilience risks are identified before they affect service.