Table of Contents
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Job Overview
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About the Company
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Available Jobs
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Job Description
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Job Responsibilities
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Why This Role?
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Requirements
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How to Apply
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FAQs
Job Overview
Job Title: Sr. Systems Engineer (Sales Engineering)
Company Name: Versa Networks
Location: Remote, Dubai / UAE
Employment Type: Full-time
Start Date: ASAP (based on hiring process)
Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work in the UAE
Opportunity Summary:
This Sr. Systems Engineer Dubai role combines deep technical expertise with customer-facing influence. You’ll support pre-sales activities, run workshops and demonstrations, validate proof-of-concepts, respond to RFIs/RFPs, and guide strategic customers and partners through the evaluation and expansion of Versa’s networking and security solutions. If you want to be the engineer who helps organizations modernize connectivity and security—while shaping product feedback loops and producing customer-facing technical content—this role offers both visibility and impact.
About the Company
Versa Networks is focused on transforming how organizations connect and secure users, devices, and applications anywhere—built around the mission to enable secure access anytime, anywhere. The company is recognized in modern networking categories such as Secure SD-WAN, SSE, SASE, and next-generation managed services—helping enterprises design scalable, secure digital experiences across cloud and distributed environments.
Versa positions itself as a market leader driving innovation and growth as it prepares for a future IPO. The culture emphasizes collaboration, customer success, and a fast-moving environment where strong contributors can grow quickly and make measurable impact. If you like being close to product evolution and market momentum, this is a strong place to build your next chapter.
Available Jobs
If you’re targeting a Senior Systems Engineer role, it’s smart to also search for adjacent titles that match the same skill set and increase shortlist chances. Here are related roles typically aligned with this track:
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Solutions Engineer – SASE / SSE
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Pre-Sales Engineer – Secure SD-WAN
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Sales Engineer – Network Security
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Customer Success Engineer – SASE Deployments
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Professional Services Engineer – SD-WAN and Cloud Security
These roles often share the same foundation: WAN/LAN expertise, security architecture knowledge, strong communication, and the ability to support technical buying decisions.
Job Description
As a Sr. Systems Engineer in Sales Engineering, you’ll act as the technical engine behind customer adoption. Your work will span product evaluations, technical workshops, demos, hands-on PoCs, and architecture validation across enterprise and service provider environments. You will also help educate partners on product evolution, collaborate internally across teams, and deliver actionable market feedback to product management.
This role is best suited for candidates who can translate complex networking and security architectures into clear business outcomes—especially when speaking to senior stakeholders. You’ll thrive here if you enjoy combining technical depth with storytelling, and if you like owning the technical journey from first meeting to successful deployment expansion.
Job Responsibilities
In this Sr. Systems Engineer Dubai position, you will:
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Provide pre-sales technical support and expertise to customers and partners, aligned to achieving sales targets.
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Establish a trusted advisor relationship with strategic customers and partners, engaging stakeholders such as CIOs and CISOs.
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Enable and update partner networks on product evolution, best practices, and deployment approaches.
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Run technical workshops, product evaluations, and demonstrations that connect capabilities to customer outcomes.
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Perform hands-on validation of proof-of-concept setups, network designs, and deployments using new products and features.
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Respond to RFIs/RFPs, translating requirements into clear technical responses and recommended architectures.
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Provide market and product feedback to product management and internal teams to improve roadmap fit and competitive strength.
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Stay current on competitive solutions, industry trends, and evolving security and networking requirements.
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Create customer/partner-facing assets such as whitepapers, knowledge base articles, and technical enablement content.
Why This Role?
This job is especially compelling for engineers who want more ownership, visibility, and career acceleration than a traditional operations role.
1) You’ll sit at the center of modern SASE buying decisions
SASE and SSE adoption is accelerating across enterprises looking to simplify security and networking for distributed work. Being a senior pre-sales engineer here puts you in the room where architecture decisions are made—and where technical credibility directly influences outcomes.
2) Strong mix of strategy + hands-on engineering
You’re not just presenting slides. You’ll run workshops, validate PoCs, and test deployments. That blend builds rare career capital: you become the engineer who can both explain and prove.
3) Partner and executive exposure builds long-term career leverage
You’ll engage with CIO/CISO-level stakeholders and partner ecosystems. That exposure can accelerate your path into roles like Solutions Architecture Lead, SE Manager, Technical Director, or regional leadership.
4) Benefits designed for real sustainability
Versa highlights a comprehensive package that includes:
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Competitive salary and incentives, plus pre-IPO equity
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Medical, dental, and vision coverage
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Generous paid time off
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Flexible work environment with remote and hybrid options
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Professional development: training, certifications, and learning resources
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Recognition programs and awards
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Collaborative, inclusive culture
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Parental leave policies
5) Your voice matters in product and market feedback loops
Pre-sales engineers often shape what gets built next. If you like influencing product direction based on what customers actually need, this environment supports that.
Requirements
To be a strong fit for this role, you should align with most of the following.
Core Networking Background
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Experience planning/designing or operating service provider or large enterprise WAN/LAN networks
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Deep understanding of the TCP/IP protocol stack
WAN Technologies and Routing
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Strong knowledge of WAN technologies and protocols such as:
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MPLS and MPLS-based VPNs
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BGP, OSPF
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QoS, NAT
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Multicast
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Security and SASE Knowledge
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Knowledge of cloud security solutions including:
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FWaaS
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DLP
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CASB
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RBI
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Malware prevention
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Familiarity with security technologies such as:
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Proxies
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SSL/TLS
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VPNs
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Active Directory / SAML / LDAP
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Threat prevention and mitigation
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Understanding of networking and security architectures aligned to the SASE framework
Enterprise-Scale Architecture
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Experience architecting and/or managing large-scale, resilient, high-performing enterprise networking and security solutions
Systems Skills
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Knowledge of Linux administration
Beneficial Skills
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Best-practice architectures for SaaS applications
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Hands-on experience with public/private cloud platforms such as:
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AWS, Azure, OpenStack, VMware
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Shell scripting or Python scripting knowledge
Eligibility
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Must be authorized to work in the UAE
How to Apply
Apply directly through the Versa Networks careers posting for Sr. Systems Engineer (Sales Engineering) – UAE/Dubai using the “Apply” option on the role page.
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
1) Is this Sr. Systems Engineer Dubai role technical or sales?
It’s a Sales Engineering role—highly technical, focused on pre-sales support, workshops, demos, PoCs, and RFP responses, helping customers adopt and expand solutions.
2) Do I need UAE work authorization?
Yes. Applicants must be authorized to work in the UAE.
3) What technologies should I be strongest in?
Core strengths include WAN/LAN design (MPLS, BGP, OSPF, QoS), TCP/IP, and security concepts aligned to SASE/SSE (FWaaS, DLP, CASB, RBI, identity integrations).
4) Is cloud experience required?
It’s listed as beneficial, especially hands-on exposure to AWS/Azure and virtualization or private cloud environments.
5) What will I do day-to-day?
Expect a blend of customer/partner calls, technical workshops, demos, PoC validation, RFP responses, and internal feedback loops with product teams—plus writing technical content when needed.