Senior Network Engineer

About the role

FastPay is hiring a full-time Senior Network Engineer based in Erbil, available until 11/30/2026. The role covers the design, implementation, configuration and maintenance of enterprise and data center networks, with strong emphasis on BGP, VXLAN, data center fabrics and SD-WAN.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure and maintain enterprise and data center networks
• Manage and troubleshoot BGP routing and VXLAN EVPN environments
• Support and maintain Spine-Leaf data center fabric architectures
• Deploy, manage and troubleshoot SD-WAN infrastructure
• Monitor network performance, availability and security
• Perform network upgrades, migrations and optimization
• Conduct root cause analysis and resolve complex network incidents
• Maintain network documentation and topology diagrams
• Collaborate with IT, infrastructure and security teams on network projects

Required profile

• Minimum 3 years of professional network engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree in IT, computer engineering, telecommunications or a related field
• Fluent English, spoken and written
• Strong hands-on knowledge of BGP, VXLAN, data center fabrics and SD-WAN
• Experience with enterprise-grade routers, switches and firewalls
• Preferred: CCNP Enterprise or CCNP Data Center certification (mandatory)

Required skills

• Routing: IPv4/IPv6, BGP (eBGP/iBGP), OSPF, HSRP/VRRP, ECMP, NAT, DHCP, DNS
• Data center fabrics: Spine-Leaf, VXLAN, VXLAN EVPN, underlay/overlay, Anycast Gateway
• Switching: VLANs, 802.1Q, STP/RSTP/MSTP, LACP, Port Channels
• SD-WAN: overlay/underlay, QoS, traffic engineering, IPsec tunnels
• Firewalls and security: site-to-site and remote-access VPNs, IPsec, SSL VPN
• Monitoring and troubleshooting: Zabbix, PRTG, SolarWinds, Wireshark, SNMP, Syslog
• Preferred: Cisco Nexus, ACI, Arista, Cisco Viptela, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Python, Ansible