Network Engineer (National Talent)

Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism; Dubai; On-site; AED 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

The Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism is seeking a Network Engineer responsible for maintaining and supporting the organisation's enterprise network across primary, disaster-recovery and approved cloud environments.

The role focuses on reliable, secure, and resilient connectivity by administering network devices, monitoring performance, resolving incidents, implementing changes, and maintaining disaster-recovery readiness. Dubai site-based role.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Investigate network-security configuration issues and escalate suspected cybersecurity incidents.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• Investigate network-security configuration issues and escalate suspected cybersecurity incidents.

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.