Network Engineer

Role Overview

Network Engineer position at BlackStone eIT. The role operates and supports the entity's network and connectivity services, including local and wide-area networks, routing, switching, wireless, firewalls and secure connectivity, with onsite coordination for physical dependencies, service providers and critical network incidents.

Role Purpose

Operate and support the entity's network and connectivity services across all infrastructure layers. Provide onsite coordination for physical dependencies, service providers and critical network incidents to ensure continuous availability and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

Network Administration

• Administer LAN, WAN, routing, switching, wireless, VPN and network-security components within the approved scope.
• Maintain network diagrams, IP plans, configuration baselines, inventories, backups and operational runbooks.

Monitoring & Incident Response

• Monitor network health, capacity and availability and respond to alerts, incidents and performance degradation.
• Troubleshoot connectivity across offices, data centres, hosted environments and approved external services.
• Participate in agreed on-call coverage for critical network incidents.

Change & Coordination

• Coordinate approved changes with the entity, telecom providers, TDRA and other relevant parties.
• Implement changes with approved plans, validation and rollback controls.

Security & Resilience

• Support firewall-rule, segmentation and secure-connectivity activities in coordination with cybersecurity.
• Contribute to resilience, capacity, failover and disaster-recovery testing.
• Identify capacity and resilience risks before they affect service.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 4 years of enterprise network engineering experience.
• CCNP or equivalent professional-level certification preferred; CCIE is an advantage.
• Relevant Fortinet, Palo Alto or equivalent security-platform experience preferred.
• Previous experience supporting UAE government or multi-site environments preferred.
• Working knowledge of TDRA connectivity, hosting and approval processes preferred.
• Experience coordinating with telecom providers and federal or shared infrastructure services preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong knowledge of routing, switching, TCP/IP, wireless, VPN, firewalls and network monitoring.
• Strong incident troubleshooting capability.
• Strong technical documentation capability.

Additional Information

• Connectivity incidents are restored and escalated within confirmed service targets.
• Configurations, diagrams and network inventories remain current and recoverable.