Senior Network & Firewall Architect (L3)

E-Solutions; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

E-Solutions in Dubai is seeking a Senior Network & Firewall Engineer (L3) to design, deploy, migrate, and optimize enterprise network and security infrastructures across multi-vendor environments including Cisco, Huawei, Fortinet, and Palo Alto.

The role leads complex migrations, provides L3 technical support, and mentors junior engineers while ensuring security best practices and high availability in mission-critical networks.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise networking, security, deployment, migration, and troubleshooting.
• Deep expertise in multi-vendor environments (Cisco, Huawei, Fortinet, Palo Alto).
• Experience leading complex implementation and migration projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise LAN, WAN, Data Center, and Campus networks.
• Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot Cisco, Huawei, Fortinet, and Palo Alto network and security solutions.
• Lead network transformation, refresh, migration, and greenfield deployments.
• Perform firewall policy creation, NAT configuration, VPN implementation, routing, and security hardening.
• Plan and execute migration activities with minimal downtime.
• Configure dynamic routing protocols: OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, and static routing.
• Ensure high availability for firewalls and core infrastructure.
• Manage L2/L3 switching: VLANs, STP, EtherChannel/LACP, VRRP/HSRP, MLAG.
• Support SD-WAN, IPSec/VPN, SSL VPN, Remote Access VPN, and site-to-site connectivity.
• Perform performance analysis, capacity planning, and root-cause analyses.

Skills

Cisco Routing & Switching

Huawei Enterprise Switching

Cisco Catalyst & Nexus

VLANs & STP

OSPF/BGP/EIGRP

HA/VRRP-HSRP

VPN Technologies

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Tools

Cisco Firepower

Fortinet FortiGate

Palo Alto Firewalls

Huawei Technologies

SSL VPN

Job description

E-Solutions in Dubai is seeking a Senior Network & Firewall Engineer (L3) to design, deploy, migrate, and optimize enterprise network and security infrastructures across multi-vendor environments including Cisco, Huawei, Fortinet, and Palo Alto.

The role leads complex migrations, provides L3 technical support, and mentors junior engineers while ensuring security best practices and high availability in mission-critical networks.