Network Engineer (Smart Cities, Data Centers)

Job Description: Network Engineer

Job Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Presight is an ADX-listed public company with Abu Dhabi based G42 as its majority shareholder and is the region’s leading big data analytics company powered by GenAI. It combines big data, analytics, and AI expertise to serve every sector, of every scale, to create business and positive societal impact. Presight excels at all-source data interpretation to support insight-driven decision-making that shapes policy and creates safer, healthier, happier, and more sustainable societies. Today, through its range of GenAI-driven products and solutions, Presight is bringing Applied AI to the private and public sector, enabling them to realize their AI strategy and ambitions faster.

Position Overview

Presight 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 traSic, 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.
• 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, traSic 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.
• Comply with QHSE (Quality Health Safety and Environment), Business Continuity, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, Compliance Management, and Governance of Organizations policies, procedures, plans, and related risk assessments.

Requirement Qualifications:

o A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

o Certifications from Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, or Fortinet NSE are a plus.

o Willingness to international travel at least 50% as required by the role, based

on business needs and project requirements. Your performance will be measured by:

o Cost savings and reduction in downtime.

o Adherence to policies, procedures, and quality standards.

o Turnaround time for troubleshooting and optimizing existing solutions.

Experience:

o 5+ years of experience in network administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Skills:

Network Infrastructure & Protocols:

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

Network Security & Firewall Administration:

o Firewalls (Fortinet, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Checkpoint) o IDS/IPS systems, SIEM tools, access control policies

o Zero Trust Security, Micro segmentation, IPsec, SSL VPNs Cloud Networking & Infrastructure:

o Azure/AWS Cloud Networking (VPC, Load Balancers, VPN Gateways)

o Integration with AI-driven Smart City cloud platforms Network Monitoring & Performance Optimization:

o NOC tools (SolarWinds, PRTG, Nagios, Zabbix, Splunk, Wireshark)

o Incident triage & SLA enforcement

o Predictive analytics for network capacity planning

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

Join us at Presight, where we oSer a culture of innovation, outstanding career growth opportunities, and competitive rewards. If you are eager to conquer new frontiers in AI and thrive in a dynamic environment, we welcome you to our community.