*** UAE Banking Experience preferred ***
Expert hands-on with:
🔸 F5 BIG-IP (ASM/Advanced WAF): policy tuning, attack signatures, bot and DDoS mitigation, iRules basics.
🔸Palo Alto Networks: security policy design, App-ID/URL filtering, Threat Prevention/WildFire, Panorama.
🔸Fortinet FortiGate/FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer: NGFW policies, IPS/AV/web filter, automation, logging.
🔸CitrixADC (NetScaler): L7 load balancing, SSL/TLS, content switching, AppFW exposure.
🔸 Strong Azure and AWS networking & security: VNet/VPC, peering, routing, NSG/NACL, Azure Firewall/AWS Network Firewall, Application Gateway/ALB/WAF, Private Link, Transit Gateway/Virtual WAN.
🔸 Protocol depth: TCP/IP, BGP/OSPF, NAT, DNS, TLS, HTTP/S, IPsec/SSL VPN.
🔸 Proven experience designing for high availability, performance, and security compliance.
Certification Required :-
F5: 301a/b (BIG-IP LTM), 302 (ASM/Advanced WAF) or equivalent practical mastery.
Palo Alto: PCNSE.
Fortinet: NSE 4–7 (NSE 7 highly desirable).
Citrix: CCA-N/CCP-N (ADC).
Cloud: Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500), AWS Security – Specialty (or Architect certs with strong security exposure).