Network Engineer
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About the Role
Presight is seeking a highly skilled Network Engineer to design, implement, and maintain network infrastructure for Smart City and AI-driven platforms. The role requires expertise in routing, switching, firewalls, cloud networking, and NOC tools.
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Responsibilities
- Design and implement strategies to achieve optimal network performance, reliability, and security
- Develop and deploy new network solutions and enhance resilience of existing network environment
- Build network infrastructure by designing system configurations, overseeing installations, and defining standards
- Install, configure, and maintain network equipment such as routers, switches, proxy servers, DNS, DHCP, and WAN accelerators
- Monitor network performance, troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve issues
- Anticipate networking trends, analyze data traffic, forecast growth, and upgrade equipment
- Utilize tools to monitor networks, systems, storage, and data centers, ensuring alerts are addressed per SLAs
- Work with vendors and fault management team to resolve system issues
- Administer firewall environments and analyze firewall logs in compliance with IT security policies
- Perform disaster recovery operations and ensure timely data backups
- Design high performance, resilient, and secure network architectures for Smart City infrastructure
- Implement secure network segmentation to protect critical Smart City systems
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in network administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Certifications from Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, or Fortinet NSE are a plus
- Willingness to international travel at least 50%
- Strong understanding of NOC operations and proactive problem solving
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Overview
- Presight is an ADX listed public company with Abu Dhabi based G42 as its majority shareholder, a leading big data analytics company powered by GenAI.
- Presight is seeking a highly skilled and solution oriented Network Engineer to develop and enhance network platform capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement strategies to achieve optimal network performance, reliability, and security while identifying areas for improvement.
- Develop and deploy new network solutions and enhance the resilience of the existing network environment.
- Build network infrastructure by designing system configurations, overseeing system installations, and defining/enforcing system standards.
- Install, configure, and maintain network equipment such as routers, switches, proxy servers, DNS, DHCP, and WAN accelerators.
- Monitor network performance, troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve issues, and collaborate with network architects to optimize the network.
- Anticipate networking trends, analyze current data traffic, forecast network growth, and upgrade network equipment as necessary.
- Utilize a variety of tools to monitor networks, systems, storage, and data centers, ensuring all alerts are addressed promptly in line with SLAs and SLOs.
- Work closely with vendors and the fault management team to resolve system related issues and escalate problems to senior engineers as required.
- Prioritize network and system issues by creating and routing tickets, and provide critical service outage notifications.
- Administer firewall environments by analyzing firewall logs in compliance with IT security policies.
- Perform disaster recovery operations, report network statuses, and ensure timely data backups when required.
- Design high performance, resilient, and secure network architectures for Smart City infrastructure, including AI driven security systems and cloud based platforms.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Certifications from Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, or Fortinet NSE are a plus.
- Willingness to international travel at least 50% as required by the role.
- 5+ years of experience in network administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Skills
- Routing & Switching (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VLANs, STP)
- LAN, WAN, SD WAN, VPN, MPLS, 4G/5G backhaul
- Fiber connectivity & wireless networking
- Firewalls (Fortinet, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Checkpoint)
- IDS/IPS systems, SIEM tools, access control policies
- Zero Trust Security, Micro segmentation, IPsec, SSL VPNs
- Azure/AWS Cloud Networking (VPC, Load Balancers, VPN Gateways)
- NOC tools (SolarWinds, PRTG, Nagios, Zabbix, Splunk, Wireshark)
- Incident triage & SLA enforcement
- Predictive analytics for network capacity planning
What working at Presight offers
- An open, diverse, and inclusive environment with a global vision that encourages personal growth.
- Accelerate your career through high impact projects and access to resources for continuous growth and learning opportunities.
- A competitive remuneration package with a host of rewards including healthcare, education support, leave benefits and more.
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