Senior Network Security Engineer

Role

Lead the design, implementation, operation, maintenance and

support of enterprise and data center networks both to support the company's

operations and as a part of customer engagements.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that network and

network security solutions proposed by the company to its customers are high

quality, cost effective and competitive.

• Ensure network

implementation projects are successfully implemented within the planned time

frame and cost.

• Ensure the appropriate

information security policies are implemented and maintained.

• Ensure company and

company-managed customer networks are monitored and that any events, incidents

or deviations from the expected performance are detected and addressed as early

as possible to avoid any service disruption.

• Ensure all network devices

are secure and that any identified vulnerabilities are addressed.

• Ensure the existence

ofproper updated network documentation

exists.

• Ensure proper documentation

of network incidents, network incident responses and network changes.

• Ensure the company and the

customers networks are scaled appropriately to accommodate any traffic increase and maintain the required level of

performance while maintaining the required level of redundancy to achieve the

availability targets.

Duties

• Designing high

availability, high performance and cost effective network solutions.

• Selecting the most

appropriate devices/vendors for network implementation.

• Implementing, testing and

commissioning of data communication networks.

• Administrating firewalls

and VPNs

• Implement and Troubleshoot

Remote Access Solutions.

• Troubleshooting complex

network problems and taking appropriate actions to recover with minimum

disruption to the customer's business.

• Patching and/or upgrading

network devices' software to address vulnerabilities and/or add new features.

• Support information

security audits on company managed networks (including, but not limited to

providing evidence and addressing auditor findings.)

• Support information

security incident response.

• Create, maintain and update

network documentation.

• Create and submit periodic

network operations reports.

• Supervising junior network

engineers responsible for network implementation, operations and management.

Requirements

Knowledge

·Excellent knowledge and understanding

of Ethernet networking, the IEEE 802 standards and their usage in large-scale

highly available enterprise and data center networks.

·Excellent knowledge and

deep understanding of IP networking

(IPv4 and IPv6) and associated protocols

·Very good understanding of

802 physical layer standards deployed in large data center setups and their

limitations. (specifically 10, 25, 40, 100 and 400 Gbps)

·Excellent understanding of

information security best practices and their application in protecting the public data centers.

·Excellent knowledge of

network management technologies (SNMP, Wang, etc…) and best practices.

·Good understanding of QoS

implementation in data communication networks.

Skills

• Excellent ability to

configure network equipment using the CLI (Cisco, Aruba, Sophos, Fortigate,

etc…)

• Excellent ability to

troubleshoot network issues, identify root causes, select an issue resolution

approach and implement the required network changes to resolve the identified

issue.

• Ability to configure

network management on a wide variety of network devices (SNMP traps, etc...).

• Ability to troubleshoot QoS

issues.

• Excellent network design

skills.

Experience

• A Minimum of 5 years

experience in implementing and managing large-scale highly reliable networks.

• Minimum of 2 years

experience in designing data center networks

• Minimum of 2 years of

hands-on experience in configuring network security devices (firewalls, etc…)

• Hands-on experience in

configuring any of the following is a plus:

• Cisco
• Juniper
• HPE/Aruba
• Extreme Networks
• Fortinet
• Sophos
• Forcepoint

Other Qualifications

B.Sc of Engineering or equivalent

Cisco, Fortinet, Sophos or other vendor specific

certification is a plus.