Network Specialist

M42 — Overview M42 delivers comprehensive healthcare services across the full continuum of care; from primary care to advanced specialty treatments. Leveraging cutting-edge health technologies and precision medicine, we ensure the highest standards of effectiveness, efficiency, and patient-centered outcomes. With a global presence spanning more than 480 facilities in 27 countries and a dedicated workforce of over 20,000 professionals, M42 is uniquely positioned to redefine the future of healthcare on a global scale. We are looking for a highly experienced Network & Security Engineer with deep expertise in enterprise wireless, next-generation security platforms, and cloud networking. This role requires strong architectural capabilities, hands-on troubleshooting skills, and the ability to lead complex deployments across on-prem and cloud environments. The ideal candidate will be part of M42 network Security team driving design standards, ensuring security best practices, and supporting large-scale enterprise infrastructure with a focus on multi-vendor networking, and cloud-integrated security solutions. Responsibilities This role requires engineer with strong implementation and operational experience with bility to handle high priority incidents, complex architecture and network deployments. Periodic Standby Support (post office hours and during weekends-likely once in a month) will be in scope. Design and architect scalable, secure, and high-performance network solutions across campus, branch, and cloud environments. Lead wireless architecture using Aruba and Cisco platforms, ensuring optimal RF design, coverage, and performance. Design, implement and support security architecture next-generation firewalls, Zero Trust, and secure access solutions, DNS, web application firewalls, load balancers. Design hybrid connectivity models integrating on-prem networks with Microsoft Azure. Act as Level 3 escalation point for complex network and security incidents. Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive measures. Define network standards, documentation, and governance models. Collaborate with security, cloud, and application teams for end-to-end solution delivery. Mentor junior engineers and conduct knowledge transfer sessions. Participate in change management, design reviews, and capacity planning. Participation in security audits and remediate any risks support Software upgrades and hardware refresh for EoL devices. In-scope technologies for implementation and operational support. Next generation firewalls, preferably Palo Alto, FortiGate. Load Balancers, web application firewalls. Web Proxy, Private Access & Zero trust solutions preferably Zscaler, Fortigate. Routing & switching, enterprise wireless deployments. Remote Access VPNs, IPSec VPN Cloud Networking (Microsoft Azure) Architect Azure network solutions: VNet design, subnetting, peering, and segmentation, NSG, UDR, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute connectivity. Qualifications Hands-on experience with Aruba ecosystem: Central, CPPM, AirWave, Controllers, IAP. Strong knowledge of RF fundamentals and troubleshooting tools. Experience in large-scale enterprise wireless deployments. Advanced level operational skills on next generation firewalls. FortiGate (advanced features, SD-WAN, security profiles, forti-manager, forti analyzer) Palo Alto (App-ID, Threat Prevention, WildFire, Panorama, Global Protect, IPSec) Strong understanding and hands on experience of F5 architecture ( Load balancers, HTTP profiles, LTM policies, SSL, Web application Firewall, DDOS, Brute Force, OWASP top 10) Zero Trust Architecture. Network segmentation and micro-segmentation. Threat detection and mitigation. End-to-end deployment experience with ZIA & ZPA. Strong understanding of traffic forwarding, authentication, and policy control. Expert in L2/L3 protocols and enterprise network design. Strong expertise in Azure networking and hybrid architecture. Experience with cloud security and connectivity models. Experience including software upgrades, hardware refresh for EoL devices. Good to have knowledge of DNS, SSO, Identity. Necessary Certifications: Aruba: ACMP, ACCP, ACDX (preferred for architect level, Fortinet: NSE 4/7, Palo Alto: PCNSE

Design and architect scalable, secure, and high-performance network solutions across campus, branch, and cloud environments. Lead wireless architecture using Aruba and Cisco platforms, ensuring optimal RF design, coverage, and performance. Design, implement and support security architecture next-generation firewalls, Zero Trust, and secure access solutions, DNS, web application firewalls, load balancers. Design hybrid connectivity models integrating on-prem networks with Microsoft Azure. Act as Level 3 escalation point for complex network and security incidents. Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive measures. Define network standards, documentation, and governance models. Collaborate with security, cloud, and application teams for end-to-end solution delivery. Mentor junior engineers and conduct knowledge transfer sessions. Participate in change management, design reviews, and capacity planning. Participation in security audits and remediate any risks; support software upgrades and hardware refresh for EoL devices. In-scope technologies include next-generation firewalls (Palo Alto, FortiGate), load balancers, web application firewalls, web proxies, private access & zero-trust (Zscaler, Fortigate), routing & switching, enterprise wireless deployments, remote access VPNs, IPSec VPN, cloud networking (Azure), Azure network solutions (VNet, subnets, peering, NSG, UDR, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute).