Cloud Network Security Engineer Contract

Position: Cloud Network Security Engineer

Location: Dubai, UAE

Marc Ellis are working on behalf of a leading tech company and are searching for a Cloud Network

Security Engineer. To be considered for this role you must have the below experience.

Job Description:

Summary:

Cloud Network Security Engineer function is to administer and maintain the network footprint in the

cloud with a bit of administration of on-prem network devices (mainly Routers, Firewalls, Load

Balancers, IPS). The candidate must be able to describe in detail the infrastructure or topology he is

administering or used to administer, what administrative tasks did he perform and how.

Technical skills required:

• Understanding of networking concepts: mainly routing, encrypted communication (i.e., IPsec),

network segmentation and load-balancing.

• Track record of administering enterprise networks with footprints in public clouds (Azure, AWS,

GCP – Azure is preferred), including segmentation and network security.

• Track record of using automation (i.e., Terraform) for the network deployment in public clouds.

• Track record of working with physical and virtual firewall and load-balancer appliances

(preferably Palo-Alto, F5).

• Track record of working with the following protocols: Ethernet, IP, TCP, UDP, BGP, OSPF

• Deep understanding of network monitoring and observability concepts.

Technical skills (nice to have):

• WAN optimization

• Track record of using Python, Ansible or other open-source tools for network automation.

• Experience in building and maintaining NMS (Network Management System) and inventories

using open-source tools (Netbox, Telegraf, Nagios, Zabbix, icinga, InfluxDB, Grafana, ELK)

• Readiness to be on-call as L3 support as a part of rotation (not immediately required, but can be

required in the future)

• Understanding of ITSM practices and tolerance for going through tight change management

protocols.