Network Engineer

Dubai Careers - A Smart Dubai Initiative; Dubai; On-site; AED 335,000 - 446,000; Full time

Job summary

Dubai Careers - A Smart Dubai Initiative is seeking a Network Engineer to maintain and support the organisation’s enterprise network across primary, disaster-recovery, and cloud environments. You will ensure secure, reliable connectivity by administering devices, monitoring performance, and implementing changes with Cybersecurity coordination.

The role covers LAN/WAN/SD-WAN, firewalls, VPNs, monitoring tools, and disaster-recovery procedures, with emphasis on incident resolution, capacity

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/CE/telecommunications or related field.
• 5+ years of enterprise network infrastructure, security, and disaster-recovery experience.
• Hands-on with LAN/WAN, data-centre, wireless and SD-WAN networks using Cisco/Juniper/Aruba platforms.
• Experience configuring routing, switching, VLANs, NAT, OSPF, BGP, QoS and redundancy.
• Experience with firewalls (Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco ASA/FTD) and secure connectivity (IPSec/SSL VPN).
• Knowledge of VXLAN, Cisco ACI, VMware NSX-T, and SD-WAN technologies (Cisco Viptela).
• Proficient with monitoring tools (SolarWinds, Wireshark, PRTG).
• Familiar with edge/CDN security (Akamai Kona defensive) and cloud connectivity (Azure ExpressRoute).

Responsibilities

• Administer and troubleshoot enterprise LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless and data-centre networks.
• Configure switches, routers, wireless infra, and related services per approved designs.
• Maintain routing, switching, segmentation, redundancy configurations.
• Manage firewalls, site-to-site and remote-access VPNs, and secure connectivity.
• Monitor availability and performance across devices, logs, and traffic flows.
• Troubleshoot outages, latency, congestion, and wireless issues; perform root-cause analysis.
• Maintain cloud/hybrid network connectivity and private connectivity configurations.
• Support disaster-recovery procedures and network runbooks; lead change-management.
• Coordinate incidents and maintenance with internal teams and vendors.

Skills

Networking expertise

Disaster recovery planning

Incident analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields

Tools

Cisco

Juniper

Aruba

Viptela (SD-WAN)

OSPF

BGP

NAT

IPSec VPN

SSL VPN

VXLAN

Cisco ACI

VMware NSX-T

F5

Citrix ADC

SolarWinds

PRTG

Wireshark

Akamai Kona Site Defender

Akamai App & API Protector

Azure ExpressRoute

AKS

Calico

Flannel

Canal

Portworx

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Job Description

The Network Engineer, Infrastructure & Disaster Recovery is responsible for maintaining and supporting the organisation’s enterprise network infrastructure across primary, disaster-recovery and approved cloud environments. The Network Engineer ensures reliable, secure and resilient network connectivity by administering network devices and services, monitoring performance, resolving incidents, implementing approved changes and maintaining network recovery readiness.

Network Infrastructure Administration

• Administer, maintain and troubleshoot enterprise LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless and data-centre network environments.
• Configure and support switches, routers, wireless infrastructure and related network services in accordance with approved designs and standards.
• Maintain routing, switching, network segmentation, connectivity and redundancy configurations.

Network Security and Secure Connectivity

• Administer enterprise firewalls, site-to-site VPNs, remote-access VPNs and secure-connectivity services within the assigned operational scope.
• Maintain approved firewall rules, network objects, security zones, network address translation and segmentation controls.
• Support periodic firewall-rule and network-access reviews in coordination with Cybersecurity.

Network Monitoring and Performance

• Monitor network availability, performance, traffic utilisation and capacity across network devices, wireless infrastructure, firewalls and connectivity services.
• Diagnose and resolve network outages, latency, packet loss, congestion, routing instability and wireless-connectivity issues.
• Analyse logs, traffic flows, interface statistics and packet captures to identify faults and recurring performance problems.

Cloud and Hybrid Network Support

• Maintain approved cloud and hybrid-network connectivity, including virtual networks, gateways, routing, network-security configurations and private connectivity.
• Monitor cloud-network connections, routes, throughput and service availability.
• Troubleshoot hybrid routing, VPN, private-connectivity and name-resolution issues.

Network Resilience and Disaster Recovery

• Maintain network recovery procedures, configuration backups and technical runbooks for critical network services.
• Support the recovery of switching, routing, WAN, internet, firewall, VPN, wireless and hybrid-connectivity services.
• Validate routing, redundant devices, firewall availability, connectivity and service restoration following recovery.

Incident, Change and Lifecycle Management

• Provide technical support for network incidents and restore services in accordance with approved operational priorities.
• Conduct root-cause analysis for significant or recurring network incidents and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Implement network changes through approved testing, validation, rollback and change-management procedures.

Documentation and Technical Coordination

• Maintain network topology diagrams, device inventories, circuit records, IP-address information and configuration documentation.
• Maintain operating procedures, troubleshooting guides and disaster-recovery runbooks.
• Coordinate incidents, maintenance activities and technical support with internal teams, telecommunications providers and technology vendors.

Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields.
• Professional certifications such as Cisco Certified Network Professional – Enterprise, or an equivalent current professional-level enterprise networking certification.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in enterprise network infrastructure, network security, connectivity, high availability and disaster-recovery environments.
• Hands-on experience administering and supporting enterprise LAN, WAN, data-centre, wireless and SD-WAN networks, using technologies from Cisco, Juniper, Aruba or equivalent enterprise networking platforms.
• Experience configuring and supporting routing and switching technologies, including VLANs, trunking, link aggregation, spanning tree, OSPF, BGP, redundancy and QoS.
• Experience supporting SD-WAN technologies, including Cisco Viptela or equivalent platforms.
• Experience administering enterprise firewalls and secure connectivity using Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco ASA/FTD or equivalent technologies, including firewall policies, NAT, IPSec VPN and SSL VPN.
• Experience with network segmentation and microsegmentation technologies, including VXLAN, Cisco ACI, VMware NSX-T or equivalent technologies.
• Experience supporting application delivery and load-balancing technologies such as F5 and Citrix ADC.
• Experience monitoring and troubleshooting enterprise networks using SolarWinds, PRTG, Wireshark or equivalent network monitoring and diagnostic tools.
• Experience supporting edge, CDN and WAF services, including Akamai Kona Site Defender and Akamai App & API Protector, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with Azure and hybrid network connectivity, including ExpressRoute, and supporting connectivity requirements for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Working knowledge of networking for container platforms such as SUSE Rancher, including container network interfaces such as Calico, Flannel and Canal, and associated infrastructure technologies such as Portworx.
• Working knowledge of network infrastructure automation and configuration management using Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience supporting network high availability, redundancy, failover and disaster recovery, including participation in network recovery and failover testing.

Job Category

Information Technology Technician

Advertiser

Department of Economy and Tourism

Required Nationality

UAE Only

Monthly Salary

30001-40000

Schedule-Time

Full time

Job Posting

08/09/2026

Unposting Date

08/10/2026