Black Pearl Looking for Senior Network Security (Data Center) at United Arab Emirates Full Time

An exciting role has come up with a large technology company. We seek a highly skilled and experienced Senior Network Security Professional (Data Center) with a comprehensive skill set encompassing network security, networks, and virtualization (Private Cloud). The ideal candidate will deeply understand network security principles while demonstrating a broad knowledge base of network technologies.

Requirements

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

Network Security Skills

• Good understanding of network security architecture in enterprise network environments (Zero trust networks)
• Good understanding of Application layer protocols
• Good understanding of TCP/IP protocol and its troubleshooting from a network security perspective
• Good understanding of DDOS attacks and awareness of DDOS mitigation controls and tools
• Good understanding of IPS solutions, mainly Cisco source fire, Checkpoint IPS

NextGen Firewalls –

• Must havegood knowledgeand experience ofPalo Alto, Checkpoint –
• Good knowledge and understanding of Palo Alto Panorama
• Good knowledge and understanding of Checkpoint security management appliances
• Optional: knowledge and experience ofopen-source firewalls such as OPNsense, PFsense
• Good understanding and experience of managing multi-factor authentication
• Good knowledge and experience of firewall management tools (Algosec, Tufin )
• Good knowledge or experience of firewall rules review / remediation-based projects
• Understanding of automation in general, any experience or involvement regarding firewall policy change automation will be advantageous

Virtualization Public / Private Clouds

• Good knowledge and experience of private cloud technologies (VMware, KVM, OLVM)
• Understanding of I.T terms, IaaS, PaaS, IaC
• Understanding of containers, Kubernetes PaaS environments in general
• Good to have public cloud experience across AWS, Azure or OCI

WAF – Web application Firewalls

• Good understanding of 3 tier application models
• Good understanding of HTTP and other web-based protocols
• Knowledge and experience of implementing F5 Big-IP LTM / GTM and ASM WAF features for financial or other large organizations
• Optional: awareness and knowledge of other cloud based or on-premises WAF solutions

Web Proxy –

• Knowledge and experience of managing Bluecoat web proxy, DLP, web isolation, AV or any other security controls
• Good to have knowledge and experience of Zscaler web proxy solution

Networking Skills (Routing/Switching)

• Good high-level understanding of network architectural designs (legacy 3-tiered model vs leaf/spine)
• Good understanding of OSPF / BGP routing protocols
• Load balancers skills (Big-IP F5 knowledge/experience or any other opensourceload balancers (Haproxy, traefik etc.)
• Good understanding of CDN based service delivery using Akamai or Cloudflare

Governance:

• Good understanding and experienceof change management within a major global Financial Organization
• Good understanding and experience of ITIL framework relevant to incidents and problemmanagement

Management / Monitoring:

• Good understanding of industry best practices to plan and configure baseline configurations for network security devices
• Good understanding of device monitoring via SNMP/ICMP using Solarwinds, NAGIOS, Icinga or other similar NMS tool

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