Netsec Engineer Contract

Position: Senior Technology Engineer
Location: Dubai, UAE
Contract Duration: 12 months extendable
Experience: 5 to 10 years

Technical skills and other qualifications:
We are looking for a Senior Network Security professional with wider skill set across:

• Network security,

• Networks and virtualization (Private Cloud)

• Networks

Network Security Skills

• Good understanding of network security architecture in enterprise network environments
(Zero trust networks)

• Good understanding of Application layer protocols

• Good understanding of TCP/IP protocol and its troubleshooting from a network security
perspective

• Good understanding of DDOS attacks and awareness of DDOS mitigation controls and tools

• Good understanding of IPS solutions, mainly Cisco source fire, Checkpoint IPS


NextGen Firewalls –

• Must have good knowledge and experience of Palo Alto, Checkpoint –

• Good knowledge and understanding of Palo Alto Panorama

• Good knowledge and understanding of Checkpoint security management appliances

• Optional: knowledge and experience of open-source firewalls such as OPNsense, PFsense

• Good understanding and experience of managing multi-factor authentication

• Good knowledge and experience of firewall management tools (Algosec, Tufin )

• Good knowledge or experience of firewall rules review / remediation-based projects

• Understanding of automation in general, any experience or involvement regarding firewall
policy change automation will be advantageous


Virtualization – Public / Private Clouds

• Good knowledge and experience of private cloud technologies (VMware, KVM, OLVM)

• Understanding of I.T terms, IaaS, PaaS, IaC

• Understanding of containers, Kubernetes PaaS environments in general

• Good to have public cloud experience across AWS, Azure or OCI

WAF – Web application Firewalls

• Good understanding of 3 tier application models

• Good understanding of HTTP and other web-based protocols

• Knowledge and experience of implementing F5 Big-IP LTM / GTM and ASM WAF features for
financial or other large organizations

• Optional: awareness and knowledge of other cloud based or on-premises WAF solutions










Web Proxy –

• Knowledge and experience of managing Bluecoat web proxy, DLP, web isolation, AV or any
other security controls

• Good to have knowledge and experience of Zscaler web proxy solution


Networking Skills (Routing/Switching)

• Good high-level understanding of network architectural designs (legacy 3-tiered model vs
leaf/spine)

• Good understanding of OSPF / BGP routing protocols

• Load balancers skills (Big-IP F5 knowledge/experience or any other opensource load
balancers (Haproxy, traefik etc.)

• Good understanding of CDN based service delivery using Akamai or Cloudflare

Governance:

• Good understanding and experience of change management within a major global Financial
Organization

• Good understanding and experience of ITIL framework relevant to incidents and
problem management


Management / Monitoring:

• Good understanding of industry best practices to plan and configure baseline configurations
for network security devices

• Good understanding of device monitoring via SNMP/ICMP using Solarwinds, NAGIOS, Icinga
or other similar NMS tool