Network & Security Infrastructure Engineer

We're excited to be partnering with a leading institution in the UAE that is building a digital-first, AI-enabled financial services organisation from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to join at an early stage and help shape the technology, data, and platform foundations of a business with significant institutional backing and long-term ambition. If you're passionate about network engineering, cloud security, and building resilient infrastructure at scale, we'd love to hear from you.

As a Network & Security Infrastructure Engineer, you'll play a key role in building and operating the bank's software-defined network and security environment. Working alongside Cloud, Infrastructure, Security, and AI teams, you'll help deliver secure connectivity, cloud-hosted payment infrastructure, zero-trust networking, and highly automated security operations from day one.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate software-defined networking, SD-WAN, DNS, and load-balancing solutions across cloud and office environments.

• Implement and manage next-generation firewalls, DDoS protection, intrusion detection, and cloud-edge security controls.

• Engineer and maintain SWIFT connectivity, payment-system infrastructure, and secure banking network environments.

• Support zero-trust access models, workload identities, segmentation controls, and secure connectivity across the estate.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and modern automation practices.

• Monitor network performance, security telemetry, disaster recovery readiness, and infrastructure resilience.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on network and security infrastructure engineering experience within banking, fintech, or another regulated environment.

• Strong experience with software-defined networking, network security controls, and cloud-based infrastructure.

• Hands-on experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.

• Experience working with Azure and/or AWS cloud networking environments.

• Knowledge of zero-trust security principles, segmentation, identity-aware access, and automated security operations.

• Experience with SWIFT infrastructure, payment connectivity, or financial services networking is highly desirable.

Ready to join us? Apply today and take the next step in your career.