Senior Network Engineer - Cisco, Fortinet & Data Center

Tech Junction Ltd; Sharjah; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Junction Ltd. is seeking an Senior Network Engineer in Sharjah, UAE to lead enterprise networking, data center, and firewall environments. You will configure Cisco IOS/NX-OS, OSPF, BGP, VLANs, STP, VRFs, and implement Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto firewalls with VPNs.

Expect collaboration with global teams and a focus on security hardening. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in telecom/IT infra, strong documentation skills, and legal work authorization in the UAE.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field.
• 10+ years of hands-on enterprise network engineering experience.
• Strong Cisco routing and switching expertise (IOS/NX-OS, OSPF, BGP, VLANs, STP, VRFs).
• Experience with Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto firewalls and VPNs.
• Datacenter networking, F5 load balancing, SD-WAN, and 802.1X ike Cisco ISE.

Responsibilities

• Architect, configure, test, and maintain enterprise routing and switching.
• Implement and manage OSPF/BGP, VLANs, STP, VRFs.
• Deploy Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto firewalls and VPNs.
• Manage site-to-site and remote access VPNs; review firewall rules.
• Administer datacenter networks, load balancers, and SD-WAN.
• Implement 802.1X with network access control (ISE).
• Utilize monitoring tools (SolarWinds, PRTG, Wireshark) for troubleshooting.
• Maintain comprehensive network documentation and incident records.

Skills

Cisco routing & switching

OSPF/BGP/VLAN/STP/VRFs

Fortinet FortiGate & Palo Alto firewal

F5 load balancers & SD-WAN

Cisco ISE & 802.1X

VPN architectures

Datacenter networking

Network security hardening

Technical documentation & comms

Legal work authorization (Sharjah UAE)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / Telecommunications Engineering

Tools

SolarWinds

PRTG

Wireshark

ServiceNow

Jira

Cisco ISE (as a concept)

Job description

Tech Junction Ltd. is seeking an Senior Network Engineer in Sharjah, UAE to lead enterprise networking, data center, and firewall environments. You will configure Cisco IOS/NX-OS, OSPF, BGP, VLANs, STP, VRFs, and implement Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto firewalls with VPNs.

Expect collaboration with global teams and a focus on security hardening. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in telecom/IT infra, strong documentation skills, and legal work authorization in the UAE.