Senior Network Security Engineer
On-siteCairo, Cairo, Egypt
Job Summary
Design, implement, and operate enterprise and data center networks while ensuring high quality, cost-effective solutions and successful project delivery within planned timelines. Monitor company and customer networks to detect incidents early, address vulnerabilities, and maintain security policies to prevent service disruptions. Configure and troubleshoot complex network issues, administer firewalls and VPNs, and manage remote access solutions with minimal business disruption. Supervise junior engineers, create and update network documentation, and support information security audits and incident responses. Create and submit periodic network operations reports to track performance and availability targets.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- 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
- 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...)
- B.Sc of Engineering or equivalent
Desired Qualifications
- Hands-on experience in configuring any of the following: Cisco, Juniper, HPE/Aruba, Extreme Networks, Fortinet, Sophos, Forcepoint
- Cisco, Fortinet, Sophos or other vendor specific certification
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