الوصف الوظيفي

الأدوار والمسؤوليات

1. Advanced Support and Escalation Management

Act as the final escalation point for complex incidents affecting firewalls, VPN, proxy, IPS, SSL inspection, DDoS, and network ATP.
Perform deep troubleshooting, packet analysis, and protocol level investigations for critical issues.
Own root cause analysis for recurring or high impact incidents and define corrective and preventive actions.

2. Configuration, Optimization and Maintenance

Design, implement, and tune policies on Palo Alto, Cisco ASA or FTD, and Fortinet firewalls. Including segmentation, zero trust style rules, NAT, and security policies.
Manage VPN services for remote access and site to site connectivity. Including authentication, MFA integration, and high availability.
Administer Forcepoint Web proxy and SSL decryption policies. including safe bypass lists, categories, and exception handling.
Operate Gigamon SSL inspection, Arbor DDoS, and network IPS or ATP solutions. ensuring signatures, profiles, and protections are updated and tuned.
Own backup, restore, and lifecycle tasks for all network security devices. including upgrades, certificate rotations, and HA testing.

3. Architecture and Design

Contribute to low level designs, network security architectures, and change plans for new services and projects.
Recommend improvements in zoning, traffic flows, and control placement to align with SAMA CSF and NCA ECC requirements for network and perimeter security.

4. Incident Response and Reporting

Lead network security incident response during major events. coordinate with SOC, infrastructure, and application owners.
Produce detailed RCAs, including packet captures, logs, timeline, business impact. and hardening recommendations.
Provide dashboards and reports on policy changes, rule usage, blocked traffic trends, and attack statistics.

5. Technical Leadership and Mentoring

Mentor L2 Network Security Engineers on troubleshooting methods, tooling usage, and SOPs.
Review and approve L2 changes for complex or high-risk activities.
Contribute to our own runbooks, hardening guides, and standard templates for network security changes.

6. Governance, Compliance and ITIL

Ensure all work is executed under formal Change and Incident Management with CAB ready plans, test cases, and rollback procedures.
Map device configurations and monitoring to SAMA Cybersecurity Framework and NCA ECC technical controls for network security, perimeter defense, and secure remote access.
Maintain audit ready evidence. approvals, logs, configuration exports, and RCAs.

7. Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement

Work closely with
F5 Application Security tower for traffic flows, VIPs, and DDoS or WAF interactions
L3 Email Security Engineer for handoffs where issues are clearly network or clearly mail gateway
SOC and SIEM teams for rule tuning and log quality
Infrastructure and application teams to ensure secure and stable deployments

الملف الشخصي المطلوب للمرشحين

Required Qualifications

Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field.
Minimum 7 years in network security engineering. with at least 3 to 5 years managing multi-vendor firewalls, VPN, proxy, IPS, DDoS, and SSL inspection in large enterprises.
Deep understanding of TCP or IP, routing, VPN protocols, TLS, HTTP or HTTPS, DNS, and common attack techniques against network and perimeter infrastructure.
Proven track record leading incident response and complex troubleshooting in high availability. environments.

Desired Skills and Certifications

Palo Alto PCNSE or PCNSA, Cisco CCNP Security or equivalent, Fortinet NSE4 or higher.
ITIL Foundation or experience operating under ITIL processes.
CISSP, CISM, or equivalent is a plus for seniority and governance alignment.

Network Security Engineer-L3 IT-Security C&T