Network Engineer

Job Description: Network Engineer

The OpportunityPresight is seeking a highly skilled and solution-oriented Network Engineer to develop and enhance network platform capabilities. This role will support and improve business processes by creating new solutions or modifying existing ones.

About Presight
Presight is a leading big data analytics company in the region, listed on the ADX, with G42 (an Abu Dhabi-based company) as its majority shareholder. Powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Presight combines big data, analytics, and AI expertise to drive business and societal impact across all sectors. Their world-class computer vision, AI, and omni-analytics platform enable insight-driven decision-making, fostering safer, healthier, and more sustainable societies.

Key Responsibilities

As a Network Engineer at Presight, you will:

• 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 Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Service Level Objectives (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.
• Ensure adherence to Quality Health Safety and Environment (QHSE), Business Continuity, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, and Compliance policies and procedures.

Additionally, you will:

• Design high-performance, resilient, and secure network architectures for Smart City infrastructure, including AI-driven security systems and cloud-based platforms.
• Develop network architecture blueprints, standards, and roadmaps for all platform and infrastructure components.
• Ensure low-latency, high-bandwidth connectivity to support real-time video processing, traffic management, and AI analytics.
• Collaborate with network architects and security teams to enforce system security and performance standards.
• Configure and maintain network equipment, including routers, switches, firewalls, proxy servers, WAN accelerators, and fiber optics.
• Troubleshoot and resolve connectivity issues across Smart City infrastructure and perform network upgrades.
• Monitor network performance and cybersecurity risks using NOC tools, ensuring all network failures and performance issues are addressed within SLAs.
• Implement predictive analytics for network capacity planning and trend analysis.
• Coordinate with vendors, fault management teams, and IT security teams to resolve incidents.
• Administer firewall environments, perform firewall log analysis, and ensure compliance with IT security policies.
• Implement secure network segmentation to protect critical Smart City systems.
• Perform disaster recovery operations and ensure business continuity by maintaining regular backups and testing failover mechanisms.

Skills and Attributes for Success

Your performance will be measured by:

• Cost savings and reduction in downtime.
• Adherence to policies, procedures, and quality standards.
• Turnaround time for troubleshooting and optimizing existing solutions.
• Customer satisfaction, as reflected in NPS (Net Promoter Score).

To Qualify, You Must Have:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a 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% as required by the role, based on business needs and project requirements.

Ideally, You Will Also Have Expertise in:

Network Infrastructure & Protocols

• Routing & Switching (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VLANs, STP)
• LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, VPN, MPLS, 4G/5G backhaul
• Fiber connectivity & wireless networking

Network Security & Firewall Administration

• Firewalls (Fortinet, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Checkpoint)
• IDS/IPS systems, SIEM tools, access control policies
• Zero Trust Security, Micro segmentation, IPsec, SSL VPNs

Cloud Networking & Infrastructure

• Azure/AWS Cloud Networking (VPC, Load Balancers, VPN Gateways)
• Integration with AI-driven Smart City cloud platforms

Network Monitoring & Performance Optimization

• NOC tools (SolarWinds, PRTG, Nagios, Zabbix, Splunk, Wireshark)
• Incident triage & SLA enforcement
• Predictive analytics for network capacity planning

Additional Skills

• Strong understanding of NOC operations and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

What working at Presight offers:

Culture: An open, diverse and inclusive environment with a global vision that encourages personal growth and focuses on ground-breaking, industry-first innovations.

Career: Outstanding learning, development & growth opportunities via structured training programs and innovative, high-tech projects.

Rewards: A competitive remuneration package with a host of perks including healthcare, education support, leave benefits and more.