Senior Network Engineer, Infrastructure & DR

Department of Economy and Tourism; Dubai; On-site; AED 280,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Economy and Tourism in Dubai seeks a Network Engineer, Infrastructure & Disaster Recovery to maintain enterprise LAN/WAN, SD‑WAN and data‑centre networks. You will secure connectivity via firewalls and VPNs, monitor performance, resolve incidents and ensure DR readiness across cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will also configure routing, switching, firewall policies and participate in change control, incident response and documentation to support resilient services across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/CE/Telecommunications/IS or related field.
• CCNP-Enterprise or equivalent current certification.
• 5+ years in enterprise network infrastructure with high availability and disaster recovery.
• Hands-on admin of LAN/WAN/Data‑centre/WLAN/SD‑WAN with Cisco/Juniper/Aruba.
• Experience in routing/switching: VLANs, trunking, LACP, STP, OSPF, BGP, QoS.
• SD‑WAN experience (Cisco Viptela or equivalent).
• Firewall administration: Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco ASA/FTD; policies, NAT, VPNs.
• Network segmentation (VXLAN/NSX‑T/ACI).
• App delivery/load balancing (F5, Citrix ADC).
• Monitoring/troubleshooting with SolarWinds, PRTG, Wireshark.
• Edge/CDN/WAF: Akamai Kona Site Defender, App & API Protector.
• Azure hybrid connectivity, ExpressRoute; AKS connectivity.
• Container networking: Calico/Flannel/Canal; Portworx.
• Terraform and Ansible for automation.
• Network high availability, failover, disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Administer and troubleshoot enterprise LAN/WAN/SD‑WAN/wireless and data‑centre networks.
• Configure switches/routers and ensure designs and standards are followed.
• Maintain routing, switching, segmentation, redundancy and connectivity.
• Manage firewalls, VPNs and secure connectivity with proper rules and zones.
• Monitor performance, diagnose outages, latency, and wireless issues.
• Analyze logs/traffic to identify faults and recurring problems.
• Support cloud/hybrid connectivity, gateways, routing and security configs.
• Maintain disaster recovery runbooks and backup procedures.
• Coordinate changes with testing, validation, rollback and change management.
• Document topology, inventories, circuit records and configuration guides.

Skills

Enterprise networking

LAN/WAN/SD-WAN

Firewall policy

VPN & secure connectivity

Network security

Troubleshooting

Routing & Switching

Cloud/hybrid networks

Network automation

Load balancing

Azure/AWS connectivity

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in IT/CS/CE/Telecommunications/IS

Cisco CCNP-Enterprise or equivalent

Tools

Cisco

Juniper

Aruba

Fortinet FortiGate

Cisco ASA/FTD

Akamai Kona Site Defender

Akamai App & API Protector

SolarWinds

PRTG

Wireshark

F5 / Citrix ADC

Azure ExpressRoute

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

NSX-T / ACI / VXLAN

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

The Department of Economy and Tourism in Dubai seeks a Network Engineer, Infrastructure & Disaster Recovery to maintain enterprise LAN/WAN, SD‑WAN and data‑centre networks. You will secure connectivity via firewalls and VPNs, monitor performance, resolve incidents and ensure DR readiness across cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will also configure routing, switching, firewall policies and participate in change control, incident response and documentation to support resilient services across