Network Administrator & DevOps Engineer

Role overview

Network and security responsibilities

• Monitor network performance, availability, and security and respond to alerts and incidents.
• Troubleshoot connectivity, packet loss, latency, bandwidth, routing, and switching issues.
• Perform network configuration, maintenance, upgrades, and security hardening.
• Manage Cisco, Palo Alto, FortiGate, or similar networking platforms.
• Implement and maintain firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs, and other network security solutions.

DevOps and infrastructure responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with development and operations teams.
• Manage on-premises and cloud infrastructure with a focus on availability, reliability, scalability, and security.
• Administer and scale Kubernetes pods, services, deployments, and persistent volumes.
• Implement Kubernetes monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Automate configuration management with Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, or similar tools.
• Work with Docker and Kubernetes containerization technologies.

Operations and documentation

• Support disaster recovery procedures and participate in an on-call rotation for 24/7 service availability.
• Maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and operational best practices.

Required qualifications

• 7–8+ years of relevant experience in network engineering, DevOps, NOC, or a similar role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, and switching.
• Experience with network monitoring tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, SolarWinds, or PRTG.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, or GCP, Git, and Terraform.
• Experience with MS-SQL, MySQL, and/or MongoDB.
• Strong understanding of SDLC and DevOps practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, problem-solving, communication, teamwork, and customer-service skills.
• Knowledge of network security principles and best practices.
• Fluent English is required.

Preferred qualifications

• CKA and/or Linux certifications are preferred.
• CCNA, CCNP, JNCIA, or CompTIA Network+ certifications are advantageous.
• Arabic language skills are an added advantage.