Network Security Lead

Virtusa; Dubai; On-site; AED 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services company in Dubai is seeking a Network Security Lead Engineer with over 8 years of experience in security management. This role involves managing various firewall solutions and implementing security measures across cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of Palo Alto and Checkpoint, alongside a strong grasp of networking principles and DDoS mitigation techniques. The position offers opportunities for travel and professional development.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in network security.
• Strong knowledge of application layer protocols.
• Experience managing firewall solutions and security management appliances.

Responsibilities

• Manage and configure firewall policies and rules.
• Implement security solutions across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Monitor security devices using industry best practices.

Skills

Palo Alto

Checkpoint

Fortinet

TCP/IP

DDoS mitigation

VMware

Kubernetes

F5 Big-IP

Tools

Algosec

Tufin

Job description

Network Security Lead - CREQ192356 Description

Role : Network Security Lead Engineer

Skill:

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

Description :

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