Netskope: Sr. Network Automation Engineer — United Arab Emirates

About Netskope

Netskope develops security and networking technology for cloud, data and AI environments. Its employer introduction identifies the Netskope One platform, a zero-trust engine and the NewEdge network as parts of that offering. The business describes giving organisations visibility and control while maintaining the performance of access to applications and information. This connects cybersecurity with networking: the products address both how digital resources are reached and how their use is controlled and protected.

The position and its setting

Netskope lists Sr. Network Automation Engineer in United Arab Emirates, under reference 8260761. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Platform Engineering
• Employer listing date: 7 October 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Netskope stands as the foremost leader in Security Service Edge (SSE), establishing the benchmark for how modern enterprises secure access across cloud, web, and private applications
• The platform is trusted by more than 5,000 organizations worldwide, including 30+ of the Fortune 100, providing Zero Trust Network Access, Cloud Access Security Broker, and Secure Web Gateway capabilities through a single-pass, cloud-native architecture
• Underpinning these capabilities is a highly resilient global network engineered for continuous availability, managed directly by Netskope's Platform Reliability Engineering team
• The platform delivers:
• 99.999% availability with guaranteed low-latency performance for enterprise customers worldwide
• Hundreds of globally distributed Points of Presence providing best-path routing and regional redundancy
• Hundreds of BGP peering, transit, and internet exchange relationships managed and optimized continuously
• Multi-vendor network infrastructure (Cisco, Juniper, Arista, F5, Palo Alto) spanning data centers across every major region
• GTM and GSLB-driven traffic management ensuring seamless failover and performance at global scale
• Strict RTO and RPO objectives with zero-downtime change execution across a live production network
• Continuous capacity expansion as Netskope grows into new markets and enterprise segments
• As a Senior Network Engineer on this team, you will be the network domain owner embedded within the team
• Keep this infrastructure healthy, well-monitored, and continuously improving — owning day-to-day operations end-to-end while proactively identifying and resolving risks before they reach customers
• This is a high-ownership role for an engineer who genuinely cares about uptime and takes pride in knowing the health of their network without being told to look
• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot routers and switches across a multi-vendor environment — Cisco IOS/NX-OS, Juniper Junos, and Arista EOS
• Management: BGP peering sessions with transit providers, internet exchanges, and direct peering partners; tune route policy, path selection, and prefix filtering to optimize performance and cost across hundreds of sessions

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 8+ years of hands-on network engineering experience in production internet-facing data center or SaaS environments
• Multi-vendor routing and switching expertise — Cisco, Juniper, and Arista; comfortable configuring and troubleshooting across all three in production
• Expert-level BGP — peering and transit configurations, route policy design, path optimization, and troubleshooting for IPv4 and IPv6 at scale
• Firewall operations experience in production environments — Juniper SRX, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA/FTD, or equivalent
• Load balancer and GTM/GSLB experience — F5 BIG-IP, Citrix ADC, or equivalent; virtual server management, health monitoring, global traffic management across multiple regions
• L2 through L7 protocol knowledge — spanning-tree, LACP, MLAG, VLANs, BGP, OSPF, DNS, NTP, SNMP, SSH, Syslog, HTTP/S, SSL/TLS
• Experience: network monitoring platforms and dashboard tooling; ability to read utilization trends and build meaningful alert thresholds
• Proficiency: packet capture and traffic analysis tools (Wireshark, tcpdump)
• Linux experience including basic scripting
• Background in KVM/ESXI hypervisor networking
• Documentation habits — change records, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and post-incident write-ups
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• The application window for this position is expected to close within 50 days
• You may apply by filling out the below information, or visiting our Netskope Careers site

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Prior experience in a public-facing SaaS, cloud, or internet infrastructure environment strongly preferred
• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• Advertised location: United Arab Emirates

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Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Netskope

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Practical preparation: Linux

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Relevant skills

• Linux
• AI
• embedded systems
• audit
• root-cause analysis
• problem resolution