Senior Network and Security Engineer
Ghobash Group · Abu Dhabi
Job description
About the role
Design, deploy and hand over enterprise security and data‑centre projects for CNS customers across the UAE. The role is hands‑on, leading end‑to‑end implementations of next‑gen firewalls, Zero Trust, NAC, F5 application delivery and Cisco ACI, and acting as the technical escalation point.
Key responsibilities
- Gather customer requirements and produce High‑Level and Low‑Level Design documents for security and data‑centre solutions.
- Lead end‑to‑end deployments, including staging, configuration, integration, cut‑over and post‑go‑live support.
- Plan and execute firewall and load‑balancer migrations with minimal downtime.
- Integrate security platforms with AD/LDAP, RADIUS/TACACS+, PKI, SIEM and SOAR.
- Act as L3 escalation for network and security incidents and lead root‑cause analysis.
- Support pre‑sales activities such as solution sizing, BoQ review and technical responses to RFPs.
Required profile
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Telecom Engineering or IT (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum 10 years of enterprise networking experience, including 5+ years delivering network security projects.
- Relevant certifications such as CCNP Security, CCNP Enterprise/Data Center, PCNSE, Fortinet NSE 7, F5 CTS, with CCIE preferred.
- Hands‑on delivery of multi‑vendor firewall and F5 migrations, preferably in the UAE/GCC.
Required skills
- Next‑Gen firewalls: Palo Alto, FortiGate, Cisco FTD/FMC (HA, policy migration, IPS, URL filtering, SSL decryption, VPN).
- Fortinet Security Fabric components: FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiEMS, FortiZTP, FortiSandbox, FortiADC, FortiMail.
- Zero Trust/ZTNA/SASE solutions with IdP integration (Entra ID, Okta) and MFA.
- Network Access Control: Cisco ISE, Aruba ClearPass, FortiNAC (802.1X, MAB, BYOD, TrustSec).
- Application delivery: F5 BIG‑IP LTM, GTM, Advanced WAF, APM, F5OS/rSeries/VELOS.
- Data‑centre fabric: Cisco ACI (APIC), Nexus 9000 (fabric bring‑up, VRF, EPG, service graphs).
- Layer 2/3 networking: VLANs, STP, LACP, vPC, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VRF, HSRP/VRRP, VXLAN EVPN.
- Zero‑touch SD‑WAN: Fortinet SD‑WAN (FortiZTP + FortiManager).
- Security operations: SIEM (Splunk, QRadar), EDR, vulnerability scanners, CIS hardening.
- Automation: Python, Ansible, REST APIs, Terraform.
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