BO IP Security Engineer

About this opportunity:

The IP Security Operations Engineer serves as the technical authority within the MS organization for the IP Security domain. This role is focused on technical ownership, operational excellence, and expert-level support of the customer’s IP backbone security infrastructure. Ensures stability, performance, and continuous improvement across complex, multi-vendor security environments, acting as a key reference point for engineers, stakeholders, and vendors.

What you will do:

• Own the end-to-end technical operation of the customer’s IP backbone security domain, ensuring high availability, resilience, and optimal performance.
• Provide expert-level operational support for maintenance activities, software/hardware upgrades, and operational changes.
• Act as the primary technical escalation point for complex and major IP Security incidents, leading deep root-cause analysis and driving sustainable corrective actions.
• Support and mentor engineers by providing advanced troubleshooting guidance across multi-vendor security solutions (Firewalls, IPS, Authentication servers, Load Balancers, DDoS protection).
• Analyze and monitor traffic behavior through firewalls, define performance baselines, and lead investigations into anomalies or service degradations.
• Identify security threats, perform risk assessments, and develop mitigation strategies aligned with customer, MS, and industry security standards.
• Review, validate, and technically drive IP backbone security expansions, replacements, solution designs, and optimization activities.
• Coordinate and technically govern high-urgency cases and on-call escalations, ensuring fast, accurate decision-making and minimal service impact.
• Interface with third-party vendors (3PP) for escalations, defect resolution, and solution optimization.
• Contribute to operational maturity by defining best practices, technical guidelines, and knowledge-sharing materials.
• Produce clear technical documentation, reports, and stakeholder communications to support transparency and informed decision-making.

The skills you bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, IT Engineering, or equivalent.
• Strong hands-on expertise in IP Security technologies and network security architectures.
• Proven experience with multi-vendor firewall and security platforms (e.g., Juniper SRX, F5, Fortinet, Palo Alto).
• 2–5 years of relevant experience in Network / IP Security operations, with a strong focus on complex environments and advanced troubleshooting.
• Solid understanding of telecom-grade networks and service provider security challenges.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to operate effectively under pressure.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
 
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Primary country and city: Egypt (EG) || Cairo

Req ID: 784360