Vp, Network Security Engineer

**About UOB**:
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values - Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

**About the Department**:
The **Technology and Operations **function is comprised of five teams of specialists with distinct capabilities: business partnership, technology, operations, risk governance and planning support and services. We work closely together to harness the power of technology to support our physical and digital banking services and operations. This includes developing, centralising and standardising technology systems as well as banking operations in Singapore and overseas branches.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage and upkeep the Enterprise and Regional LAN and WAN network infrastructure, including Firewalls, Routers, Switches, Network link/load balancers, and other internet enabling technology and appliances. Activities can include device management lifecycle, inventory documentation, budgeting, capacity and performance planning and other compliance and security fulfillment.
- Able to translate user or business requirement into technology solution. Execute changes according to standard solution templates and established change control. Customer and service centric and able to communicate concisely and clearly with non-IT-savvy users.
- Participate in network service recovery to reduce system downtime and impact to internal users and external customer. Possess analytical and problem-solving abilities and able to work independently but knowing when to escalate. Participate in on-call duty and provide 24/7 support across regional footprint.
- Should have strong knowledge of ITIL framework and IT service management concepts.
- Experience in INC and CRQ queue and SLA management, continuous improvement and support shift -left.

**Job Requirements**:

- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or relevant qualifications
- More than 10 year’s relevant working experience in managing large, networking/security platform. Banking experience preferred but not mandatory.
- Strong technical analytical and engineering competencies with hands-on experience in managing routers, switches, firewalls, Internet technologies, VPN appliance, Web proxy, link and load balancers. Current hands-on experience on internet technology products and platforms from Cisco, f5, FortiGate, Menlo, Checkpoint, Palo Alto etc.
- A good team player with a strong sense of ownership, self-motivated and able to work with little supervision and collaborate with peers to fulfil network deliverables.
- Meticulous, energetic, resourceful and inspirational. Possess strong written, documentation and effective communication skills and ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders. Thought leadership and influential skills to be able direct and build a higher performance team.
- Working experience on emerging technologies such as SASE, SD-WAN, AWS, Azure and GCP will be a bonus.
- Working experience on scripting and network automation will be a bonus.
- Familiar with IT ticketing tool such as Remedy ISM and network management tools.

**Be a part of UOB Family**: