Network Security Lead

Virtusa; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology solutions provider is seeking a Network Security Lead Engineer in Dubai. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in network security, with a strong understanding of firewalls such as Palo Alto and Checkpoint. Responsibilities include managing firewall policies, responding to security threats, and implementing robust network security measures. The position offers a challenging environment within a major global financial organization and is crucial for safeguarding network integrity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in network security.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP and application layer protocols.
• Experience with Palo Alto and Checkpoint firewalls.

Responsibilities

• Lead network security projects, ensuring robust firewall configurations.
• Implement and manage firewall policies and rules.
• Monitor and respond to network security threats.

Skills

Firewall – Palo Alto

CheckPoint

Fortinet

Algosec

Tufin

VMware

DDOS mitigation

Cisco source fire

Big-IP F5

Kubernetes

Job description

Role : Network Security Lead Engineer

Skill : Firewall – Palo Alto / Checkpoint / Fortinet, Algosec, Tufin, Web proxcy, VMware,

Network Security Skills

• 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
• 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 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
• Knowledge and experience of implementing F5 Big-IP LTM / GTM and ASM WAF features for financial or other large organizations
• Optiona awareness and knowledge of other cloud based or on-premises WAF solutions
• Web Proxy - Good to have knowledge and experience of Zscaler ZIA web proxy solution

Networking Skills Routing / Switching

• Good high-level understanding of network architectural designs legacy 3-tiered model vs leaf / spine
• Load balancers skills Big-IP F5 knowledge / experience or any other opensource load balancers Haproxy, traefik
• 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

Primary Location Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Job Type Experienced Primary Skills Network - Security Years of Experience 8 Travel No