Solutions Engineer - SDN & SATCOM Expert

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

Job summary

Quvia is seeking a Solutions Engineer in the UAE to bridge customers and engineering teams, assessing networks, gathering requirements, and turning them into scalable designs. This role owns the journey from qualification to PoC and production, requiring deep SDN/SD-WAN expertise, scripting abilities, and multi-vendor proficiency.

You will collaborate with sales and engineering to deliver measurable business outcomes, balance workloads, and drive innovative network solutions in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of network engineering experience across terrestrial and/or satellite communications, including multi-link architecture.
• Deep networking fundamentals, including routing and switching, network security, wireless, and datacenter networking.
• Hands-on experience with software-defined networking (SDN) and multi-vendor SD-WAN and Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) platforms such as Fortinet, VMware VeloCloud, Cisco Meraki/Viptela, Cradlepoint (Ericsson), Palo Alto, or similar enterprise solutions.
• Scripting and DevOps experience in a networking context - Python, REST APIs, configuration orchestration, zero-touch provisioning and workflow automation.
• A track record of leading customer-facing POCs, deployments or migrations (for example, from traditional WAN architectures to SD-WAN) in large enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to convert a customer's current network, new technical requirements and pain points into business outcomes, and to articulate that value to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven knowledge and understanding of managing virtual infrastructure using VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, or KVM, and a thorough understanding of computer hardware and operating systems.

Responsibilities

• Partner with sales to assess a customer's current network, capture new technical requirements and pain points, and convert them into tailored solution designs with clear, measurable business outcomes.
• Design, test and deploy multi path traffic orchestration systems across satellite, and terrestrial environments in customer networks using Quvia products and third party integrations. This will require the setup of a customer profile at edge, cloud and datacenters/POPs.
• Lead proof of concepts end to end: define success criteria, design, hardware specifications, installation, configuration and testing of Quvia systems. Responsible for troubleshooting complex issues with customer, QA and Engineering teams, and own the handoff from POC to production.
• Use scripting and DevOps practices to streamline solution delivery - configuration templating, workflow automation and tooling that supports demos, POCs and repeatable deployments.
• Act as a technical advisor to customers, offering guidance on best practices and optimal usage of terrestrial and satellite communication systems, and presenting status updates and health metrics to customer stakeholders.
• Conduct training sessions and workshops for customers and internal teams on the operation and maintenance of Quvia products and their value proposition.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including sales, product management, systems, engineering, QA, and service delivery, to ensure successful project execution. Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for all solutions and services provided. Complete a successful handoff to all relevant teams at the end of the project.

Skills

Networking fundamentals

SDN & SD-WAN

Scripting (Python)

DevOps practices

Project management

Communication skills

Customer-facing experience

Cloud networking basics

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering / Telecommunications / Computer Science

Tools

VMware vSphere

Hyper-V

KVM

Fortinet NGFW

Cisco Meraki/Viptela

Palo Alto

Job description

Quvia is seeking a Solutions Engineer in the UAE to bridge customers and engineering teams, assessing networks, gathering requirements, and turning them into scalable designs. This role owns the journey from qualification to PoC and production, requiring deep SDN/SD-WAN expertise, scripting abilities, and multi-vendor proficiency.

You will collaborate with sales and engineering to deliver measurable business outcomes, balance workloads, and drive innovative network solutions in a fast-paced