Senior Network and Security Engineer

Dubai Tax Free2 days agoContractor External
Negotiable
We have an immediate opportunity for "Senior Network and Security Engineer". Please let me know if you're interested kindly send me your CV to kirthika.r@lancesoft.com 🚀Title: Senior Network and Security Engineer 📍Location : Dubai - onsite 🗓Duration : 6 month contract ⏰ Notice Period: Immediate joiner or up to 30 days 🔒 Key Requirements: Architecture Assessment & Current-State Analysis • Assess existing telecom network and security architecture across core, aggregation, edge, and customer-facing environments. • Perform detailed as-is analysis covering routing, switching, firewall, VPN, and service interconnections. • Review carrier-grade infrastructure, including MPLS, IP backbone, LTE/5G transport, and inter-operator connectivity. • Identify architectural gaps, risks, performance bottlenecks, and security vulnerabilities. • Strong Network Troubleshooting skills to handle high pressure problems and resolve it timely. Data Discovery & Dependency Mapping • Conduct comprehensive data discovery for telecom entities and their enterprise/business clients. • Identify: • IP addressing schemes and subnet allocations • Firewall policies, NAT rules, and VPN tunnels • Application flows, ports, and protocols • Customer-to-core and customer-to-customer dependencies • Permitter infrastructure. • IPSEC VPN Build • Roaming Profiles. • Corporate network • Retail Network • Call center network • Document traffic patterns, service dependencies, and critical paths. • Classify workloads based on business criticality, SLA, and regulatory requirements. Design Build and Migration Planning • Prepare end-to-end migration strategy aligned with telecom operational standards. • Payment Gateways • Permitter infrastructure. • IPSEC VPN Build • Roaming Profiles. • Corporate network • Retail Network • Call center network • Develop High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) for target-state architecture. • Create detailed migration runbooks, including: • Pre-migration checks • Cutover strategy (phased / wave-based) • Rollback and fallback procedures • Risk and impact analysis Migration Execution • Execute migrations within telecom entities and their business clients with minimal service disruption. • Lead PA firewall, VPN, and routing migrations across: • Palo Alto, FortiGate, Cisco, and Juniper platforms • Enterprise and carrier-grade environments • Coordinate with: • Telecom NOC/SOC teams • Enterprise customer IT teams • Vendors, ISPs, and third-party partners • Ensure strict adherence to change management, CAB approvals, and maintenance windows. Validation & Post-Migration Support • Perform post-migration validation, including connectivity, security policy verification, and performance testing. • Support business clients during stabilization and hyper care periods. • Address post-migration issues, fine-tune policies, and optimize performance. • Update documentation, diagrams, and operational SOPs. Governance, Security & Compliance • Ensure migrations comply with telecom regulations, security standards, and customer SLAs. • Conduct security audits and compliance checks post-migration. • Provide regular status reporting to stakeholders and senior management