Cloud Network Security Officer

Job description / Role

A new opportunity has come up with an international technology company based with big projects in the UAE. Our client is looking for a Cloud Network Security who will deploy and then administer the company’s network footprint in the cloud with a bit of administration of on-prem network devices (mainly Firewalls, Load Balancers, Proxies). You should be able to describe in details the infrastructure or topology you deploy and administer, challenges that were faced during the deployment and administration. Furthermore, you should understand and accept the concept of e2e accountability for the accepted assigned task.

To be considered for the role, you need to meet the following requirements:

Hard-skills required:
- Understanding of network concepts: mainly routing, encrypted communication (i.e. IPSec), network segmentation and load-balancing.
- Track record of deployment and administering enterprise networks with footprints in public clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP – Azure is preferred), including segmentation and network security.
- Track record of using automation (i.e. Terraform) for the network deployment in public clouds.
- Track record of working with physical and virtual firewall and load-balancer appliances (preferably Palo-Alto, F5, WAF as well as native cloud components)
- Track record of working with the following protocols: Ethernet, IP, TCP, UDP, BGP, OSPF
- Deep understanding of network monitoring and observability concepts.

Requirements

Hard-skills nice to have:
- WAN optimization
- Track record of using Python, Ansible or other open source tools for network automation.
- Experience in building and maintaining NMS and inventories using open source tools (Netbox, Telegraf, Nagios, Zabbix, icinga, InfluxDB, Grafana, ELK)

Soft skills required:
- Habit of documenting the work being performed.
- Understanding of Agile delivery methodology, ability to plan and execute the work based on the agreed backlog and report all impediments proactively and clearly.
- Understanding of the concept of e2e accountability for the task
- Track record in stakeholder management is required.
- Ability to approach critical situations fully engaged, yet with cool mind and tolerance to the environment that can be stressful at these critical times.
- Understanding of ITSM practices and tolerance for going through tight change management protocols.
- Clear spoken and written English.
- Understanding that some network changes can only be done out of working hours and acceptance that therefore out of hours work will occur.
- Readiness to be on-call as L3 support as a part of rotation (not immediately required, but can be required in the future.

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